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Piotr Kacała

Warsaw
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kaca.la
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kacala.piotr@gmail.com
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+48 663 755 650
All-rounded problem solver with more than 10 years of experience in IT. I train & lead teams of IT rockstars, I put sticky notes on things, I create products.
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Work Experience

GOG.com (CD Projekt)

From Software Engineer to Departament Director
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Aug 2013 - Current

Started as software engineer, after 2 years promoted to lead developer, then after a year to team leader, now running entire departament.

Currently running a departament of 30+ cross-disciplinary (software, design, agile, BI) talents structured into multiple product teams responsible for the GOG.com Store. Being a bridge between technology & business. Answering directly to company board.

Taking care of structure, recruitment & retaining, strategy, product ownership and high level technical decisions in a complex domain.

Currently business oriented responsibilities, still close to technology.

  • Leadership coaching initiatives
  • Restructured teams to autonomous & product-oriented (variation of Spotify squads)
  • End-to-end responsibility for one of key GOG products
  • Introduced and expanded agile practices into product teams
  • Implemented retention measurement tools & procedures for multiple departaments
  • Established career path & salary brackets for development segment
  • Contributing to devops initiatives (introducing Platform Engineering)
  • Ran multiple event storming workshops
  • Implemented OKRs concept
  • Budget management
  • Revised onboarding processes
  • Implemented A/B tests
  • Introduced & implemented Event Sourcing
  • Organising internal hackathons
  • Introduced Domain Driven Design & CQRS

Clos Brothers

Webdeveloper
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Sep 2011 - Aug 2013

Working for Effie awared digital agency as a full stack webdeveloper. Cooperation with corporate clients (Toyota, Villeroy&Boch and others) on complex projects.

Digiport

Co-owner
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2009 - Sep 2011

Running own interactive agency. Acquiring clients, finance management, project management, recruitment, supervising development team.

Worked with Citroen, Aflofarm, Grupa SBS and others.

Education

University of Łódź

Master's Degree American Studies and Mass Media
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2008 - 2012

WSHE

Bachelor's Degree Journalism and Social Communication
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2005 - 2008

Skills

  • Software Engineering background
  • Leadership skills
  • Employee recruitment & retention
  • Product management
  • Strategic thinking
  • Open minded
  • Adaptability
  • Decision making skills
  • Problem solving
  • Productivity demon
  • Conflict resolution
  • Negotiation skills