Let's build great things together

Lukasz Pielak

Software developer, architect, hackergardener, rider, husband, father of two, things maker...


Location

Bern, Switzerland

Email

pielak@gmail.com

D. o. B.

08.06.1982

Resume

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Intro

What I am all about

I am a technically skilled and creative software developer and architect with over 10 years of experience. I was working on diverse international projects with Swiss, German, US and Polish companies.

I'm an entrepreneur, frequent conference attendee and speaker, an open source passionate and #hackergarten Bern organizer.

Work with me

Let's build great things together

Need a software developer or architect for your project? Get in touch with me.

Spoken languages

100%

Polish

96%

German

94%

English

55%

Spanish

Expertise

100%

Java and JVM ecosystem

95%

Test automation

100%

Agilist

95%

Frontend development

94%

Software architecture

92%

Dev Ops

95%

Bash Scripting

95%

Distributed Tracing

Experience

Yes. I've been around
2019 – Present

adesso Schweiz AG, Switzerland

Senior Software Developer and Architect

Bern, Switzerland

Working as a freelance contractor for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).

Core developer of the Rail Distribution API (exposing SBB Services to Partners and Vendors)

2013 – 2019

Centeractive AG, Switzerland

Senior Software Developer

Bern, Switzerland

Working as a freelance contractor for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).

- Microservices design and migration to the Cloud Platform - Performance optimization - Core developer of the 'Offers' system

Jan 2013 – Nov 2013

Centeractive AG, Switzerland

Senior Software Consultant

Bern, Switzerland

Working as a freelance contractor for the swiss insurance company The Mobiliar.

Responsible for developing systems for migration of large amount of data from legacy infrastructure to new data warehouse. - developing Java Batch Framework based on Spring Batch (Java, Spring Batch, Oracle, DB2) - developing Master / Slave framework for parallel processing of data (Spring Integration, JMS, ActiveMQ) - developing ui, web based monitoring system for the master / slave framework (JBoss, PrimeFaces)

Feb 2012 – Jan 2013

Centeractive ag

Senior Software Developer

Bern, Switzerland

Full-time job as a Senior Java Developer. Designed and developed multiple core features of Retrospective Log Analyzer (UI and backend)

2008 – 2012

Sabre Holdings

Software Developer / Analyst

Krakow, Poland

System owner / Technical leader of web GUI application based on GWT framework and web services. Main duties: - analyzing, coding and testing - planning, managing and organizing work related to the project - single point of contact for external customers and vendors - responsibility for 24/7 system uptime

2005 – 2006

University of Dortmund

Software Developer / Research assistant

Dortmund, Germany

- Developing Java based tools (JAVA, XML) - Maintaining and developing department's website (PHP, MySql, HTML, JS, XML) - Developing drivers for hardware used / created by scientists of the department (C, LabView) - Assembling books in LaTeX technology

Conferences

Speaker experience
March 2020

dev.next

devdotnext.com

Denver, USA

"Ineffective Java"

"Bringing distributed tracing to the next level"

November 2019

W-JAX

jax.de

Munich, Germany

"Bringing distributed tracing to the next level"

October 2019

JAX London

jaxlondon.com

London, UK

"Bringing distributed tracing to the next level"

March 2019

CNCF - Cloud Native Meetup

cloudnativebern

Bern, Switzerland

"Distributed Business Tracing with OpenTracing and Trasier"

October 2018

JAX London

jaxlondon.com

London, UK

"The way to distributed tracing"

September 2018

Javazone, Oslo

javazone.no

Oslo, Norway

"The way to distributed tracing"

June 2016

Devoxx Polska, Krakow

devoxx.pl

Krakow, Poland

"Babun, the windows shell you will love"

Education

Lazy isn't in my vocabulary
2007 – 2008

Heriot Watt University

Master of Science (MSc), IT-Software Systems

Edinburgh, Scotland

Postgraduate master study. Master thesis: "Misleading software plagiarism tools."

2002 – 2007

University of Applied Sciences

Dipl. Inf. (FH), IT

Dortmund, Germany

Thesis: Development of java tool for visualisation and calculation of applied mathematics functions.

Certifications and Licenses


Oracle certified java programmer (OCJP) for Java 6

Oracle License Issued Nov 2010 (No Expiration Date) Credential Identifier: SR7067924


Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)

Issued by University of Cambridge


Lifeguard (DLRG) Germany

Passed the highest Lifeguard certification in Germany (Gold)


Lifeguard (WOPR) Poland

Passed the Junior Lifeguard certification in Poland

Testimonials

What others say about me

Jakub Balamut, Senior Software Architect at Sabre Holdings


"Lukasz is a very talented and motivated developer with customer-focused attitude. He's a quick learner, has impressive technical knowledge and is a very friendly person, which will be a good fit in any team."

Joern Koch, Senior Software Architect at C1 WPS


"Die Zusammenarbeit mit Lukasz Pielak war fachlich und menschlich sehr erfreulich. Insbesondere sein Engagement und das hohe Verantwortungsgefühl sowohl fürs Ganze als auch für die Details seiner Arbeit haben ihn zusammen mit seiner hohen fachlichen Kompetenz zu einem sehr verlässlichen Teamkollegen gemacht, der in allen Fällen wesentlich zum Gelingen des Projekts beigetragen hat. Ich hoffe, dass sich auch in Zukunft die Gelegenheit zur Zusammenarbeit ergibt."

Hobbies

What I do in free time