Hi, I'm

Paweł Tomkiel

Tech Delivery Manager /
Solution Architect
👷🏻‍♂️ Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) 🌥️ Cloud ⚙️ DevOps

Exec summary (aka TL;DR)

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This is what I've done

Deloitte, Cloud & Engineering

Specialist Lead Cloud & Engineering 2024/09 - present

Specialist Lead Technology Strategy & Architecture 2023/09 - 2024/08

Senior Specialist Technology Strategy & Architecture 2020/01 - 2023/08

  • Energy sector, 2 years, Enterprise Architect: data archival programme, designed architecture and maintained infrastructure for data flows from >50 systems distributed globally; client's feedback included "senior approach to management, outstanding problem-solving skills and calm and composed demeanor in difficult situations"
  • Financial services, 2 years, Technical Product Owner: owned (requirements through development till operations) a dozen of backend microservices, serving global traffic of ~1M requests monthly; occasionally coding in Typescript
  • Governmental, Project Manager: led a high priority, time-sensitive, COVID-19 response project implementing required processes and systems; delivered on time and with high customer satisfaction
  • Banking, Agile Coach: led assessments on efficiency of development processes for multiple banking teams
  • #ProjectManagement
  • #SoftwareDevelopment
  • #DevOps
  • #Azure
  • #Typescript
  • #AWS
  • #Agile
  • #Cloud
  • #Scrum
  • #ContinuousIntegration
  • #ContinuousDelivery
  • #GCP
  • #Jivs
  • #Organisation
  • #Transformation
  • #Consulting
  • #Podcast

Google Cloud Platform

GCP Cloud Digital Leader 2024/10
GCP Professional Cloud Architect 2023/02 (renewed)
GCP Professional Cloud Architect 2020/12
GCP Associate Cloud Engineer 2020/12

Business Chemistry

Type: Driver 2023

  • Although no personality assessment can fully capture who I am, I find that in the workplace, I resonate strongly with the Business Chemistry Driver type.
  • My strengths lie in logical problem-solving and quantitative analysis, and I contribute by helping move projects forward and delivering results.
  • In addition to the Driver type, I also identify with the Guardian type, as I enjoy bringing structure and order to chaos 😉.

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2020/09

Agile organisations, Deloitte Digital

Podcast host 2020/05 - 2024/06

  • Agile organisations is a podcast dedicated to CxO's wanting to explore most efficient ways of synergizing technology with business
  • As an initator I (co-)hosted 80 episodes reaching ~65k listeners in 4 years

Quantic School of Business and Technology

Executive MBA 2019/10 - 2020/12

  • I wanted to have a hollistic view on business development, not only from IT side; getting EMBA grade was the best answer to this

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master™ II 2019/09
Professional Agile Leadership™ I 2019/09
Professional Scrum Master™ I 2019/08

Oktawave

Scrum Master 2019/04 - 2019/12

  • Managed Kubernetes implementation project across three data centers for governmental client.
  • Implementing Scrum practices on organisation level.
  • Serving with technical knowledge in product communication.
  • #Scrum
  • #Agile
  • #Organisation
  • #Management
  • #Communication
  • #Visualisation
  • #Operations
  • #ProductMarketing
  • #BusinessValue
  • #ProjectManagement
  • #Presentation
  • #Multicloud
  • #DevOps
  • #AWS
  • #Kubernetes

Bracia przy kawie

Blogger 2016/05 - 2022/01

  • Personal blog, that had monthly impact on >15k people.
  • One man army. Writer, journalist, SEO specialist, social media manager, interviewer, content creator, server administrator and a programmer.
  • Writing mostly about self-aware manhood from christian perspective.
  • #Blog
  • #Writing
  • #Podcast
  • #Video
  • #Vlog
  • #SocialMedia
  • #SEO
  • #Interviewing
  • #OnlineCourses
  • #Leadership

Smart Cities

IT Project Manager 2018/04 - 2018/11

  • From the initial idea I was able to finalize implementation of new interactive kiosk.
  • Designed processes from initialisation through production to maintenance, as well as architectural and software layer.
  • #SmartCity
  • #IoT
  • #Hardware
  • #Firmware
  • #ProjectManagement
  • #ProductManagement

Oktawave

Technical Manager 2017/10 - 2018/04

Technical Product Manager 2016/03 - 2017/09

  • Co-leading R&D development team focused on implementing new product API on top of VMWare integration.
  • Managing and synchronising projects across company, facilitating strategic initiatives roadmap creation and agile coaching.
  • #Agile
  • #Scrum
  • #ProductManagement
  • #ProjectManagement
  • #IaaS
  • #ContinuousIntegration
  • #ContinuousDelivery
  • #TeamLeading
  • #VMware
  • #.NET
  • #API
  • #REST
  • #Angular
  • #Presentation
  • #DevOps

LangLion

Solutions Architect 2011/09 - 2016/03

  • First employee in a startup, involved in a wide range of tasks.
  • Implementing new features in PHP; tackling L10n and i18n challenges in rapidly growing global client base.
  • Organising client workshops and gathering feedback directly from users.
  • Actively supporting the ongoing operations of our clients.
  • #L10n
  • #i18n
  • #SaaS
  • #PHP5
  • #Symfony
  • #Linux
  • #Bash
  • #RegEx
  • #CustomerSupport
  • #TechnicalSupport

Bialystok University of Technology

Master of Engineering, Computer Science 2009/09 - 2014/07

  • I graduated with solid foundation for becoming T-shaped generalist.

Google

Internet Assessor 2008/04 - 2009/06

  • I was doing technical analysis of webpages possibly breaking Google Search Engine rules (as back then Google needed much more human help in verifying search engine content)
  • #Javascript
  • #HTML
  • #Tests
  • #Analysis
  • #L10n

Transcom

Technical Advisor 2007/12 - 2008/12

  • Beginning of my professional journey. Ongoing customer support and troubleshooting issues of our clients.
  • #CustomerSupport
  • #Telecom

This is what I believe in

Transparency

🔎 Be open
🙃 Collaborate
📖 Share knowledge

Courage

🌟 Be curious
💪 Do the right things
🦁 Take responsibility

Focus

🧶 Simplify
🔥 One Thing
🚀 Eliminate waste

Improvement

🕵🏻‍♂️ Inspect
🔧 Adapt
🏄‍♂️ Experiment

Empowerment

👨🏻‍💻 Let people do the job
😎 Respect
🤝 Inclusivity

Culture

😇 Make work better place
🌈 Mission
💡 Work-life balance

Let's get in touch

Let's have a ☕️ coffee in Warsaw, Poland or find me on one of those events:
💪 The Global Leadership Summit Poland,
🚀 Management 3.0 Warsaw,
🕺 Liberating Structures Warsaw,
🌤 Public Cloud User Group,
🌟 4Inspire,
🧱 Building Leaders .

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Paweł Tomkiel