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Michał Szaliński

Michał Szaliński

Barcelona

Summary

Skilled engineering manager - builds and motivates high-performing engineering teams.

Hands-on with close to 20 years of experience in the industry. Committed to rapidly and efficiently completing projects by leveraging team-based frameworks to best leverage available engineering talent.


People Over Process

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Glovo
07.2022 - Current
  • Led cross-functional Delivery Solutions team - part of a Contact cluster - 9 people (backend + iOS + Android) and work hand in hand with the Product Manager.
  • Recognized as high-performer moved to Logistics cluster where I lead 2 teams - Supply Distribution - focused on optimal numbers and placement of couriers on the city map and Content Availability - delivering best content for each customer. We do this with close cooperation with Data Science and Analysts teams
  • My focus: daily care for my team members, their well being, motivation and productivity. Recruitment, regular feedback, mentoring, career progression, helping out with the processes but also stakeholders management, communication both up and down. Owner of team tech OKRs and co-owner of product ones. Hands-on - I take part in design discussions, code reviews and coding.

Senior Full Stack Developer, Consultancy

Uruz Labs, DSV, KMD
02.2015 - 06.2022
  • Consulting for various companies - from startup to Fortune 500, technically leading teams and projects. Technology: java, jee, kotlin, spring, react, react native, angular, cloud, relational and nosql DSs
  • Focus: providing best technical solutions within time and budget, mentoring teams, hands of writing code, code reviews, technical recruitment.

Engineering Manager

Goldman Sachs
10.2013 - 01.2015
  • Built and managed Warsaw team - part of Global Reconciliations Team (New York, London, Bangalore and Singapore). Recognized as high-performer, honored Vice President title as a first person in newly set up Polish office.
  • Focus: people and projects managements - tasks planning and coordination between distributed teams and locations - people career management - performance management - mentoring - estimating and negotiating projects - scrum process owner. Hands-on leadership - Java / Spring / DB2

Software Engineer

CoCoNet, KBC, Ericpol (Ericsson)
09.2004 - 08.2013
  • Software engineer in various mid-sized to Fortune 500 companies - finance, telco and insurance.
  • Focus: learn from the best people around, grow as an software engineer, deliver high-quality designs and implementation within time and budget. Ultimately leading teams (up to 4 people). Mostly backend - java, jee, lots of DB programming

Education

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

University of Technology
Łódź, Poland
06.2005

Skills

  • Engineering Management
  • Engineering Leadership
  • Building high performance teams
  • Mentoring
  • Coaching
  • Career management
  • Regular feedback
  • Prioritization
  • Strategic Planning
  • Stakeholders management
  • Communication

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Polish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Spanish
Elementary (A2)

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Glovo
07.2022 - Current

Senior Full Stack Developer, Consultancy

Uruz Labs, DSV, KMD
02.2015 - 06.2022

Engineering Manager

Goldman Sachs
10.2013 - 01.2015

Software Engineer

CoCoNet, KBC, Ericpol (Ericsson)
09.2004 - 08.2013

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

University of Technology
Michał Szaliński