Career / selected work
For more than 15 years, I have built software products across commerce, cloud platforms, global brands, and enterprise transformation.
Selected work
These are the chapters that best explain how I work: close enough to the technology to understand the constraints, and close enough to the business to make the difficult calls.
Vaillant Group
E-commerce Program ManagerCurrent
Enterprise transformation
At Vaillant Group, I lead e-commerce program work at the intersection of enterprise systems, customer experience, and AI. At K5, together with Emporix, I presented how Vaillant is adapting its core values for agentic commerce.
Nike
Technical Product ManagerFrom 2024
Applied GenAI
I led product work for a GenAI team building advanced retrieval and conversational systems. The focus was practical: help internal teams find reliable knowledge, resolve incidents, and reuse a strong technical foundation instead of rebuilding it project by project.
co.brick
Senior Product Manager2022–2024
Zero to one
I joined a zero-to-one startup and turned a technical project into a market-facing observability product. That meant shaping the proposition as well as the product: UX, headless architecture, documentation, customer-facing communication, conference presence, and line management of the engineering team.
Emporix
Senior Product Manager2021–2022
Composable commerce
I worked on the core platform and backoffice applications behind an API-first commerce product. The role brought together public cloud, Kubernetes, platform APIs, and product leadership across teams.
SAP
Product Manager to Senior Product Manager2015–2020
Platform products
After SAP acquired hybris, the scale and context changed. I led product work on Backoffice and cockpitng, frameworks used to build business applications across the commerce platform, and later helped pivot Product Content Hub toward a cloud-native SaaS direction.
hybris
Solution Engineer to Senior Software Engineer2010–2015
Startup scale-up
I joined hybris as the 30th employee in Poland. I started in presales, building rapid commerce showcases, then moved into R&D to develop cockpit applications, cockpitng, and Backoffice. It was fast, close to customers, and close to the code. I loved it.
Stanusch Technologies
Java Developer2009–2010
Early conversational AI
I worked on the core NLP engine behind natural-language chatbots for automating customer-facing processes such as support and returns. This was more than a decade before generative-AI chatbots became mainstream.
Education / research
I studied Software Engineering at Wrocław University of Science and Technology from 2004 to 2009, graduating with a Master of Engineering in Information Technology.
The Problem of Forming Coalitions of Cooperating Agents in Multi-Agent Systems with Time Constraints
The work sat squarely in computational intelligence: multi-agent systems, coalition formation, and evolutionary algorithms, years before AI became a default line in every product strategy.
The thread
Job titles changed. The operating model did not: understand the system, find what matters, and give the team a direction worth executing.
I started in backend engineering and Java. Architecture, constraints, and implementation trade-offs are still part of how I think about products.
I have worked from platform foundations to customer-facing products, translating complex technology into a direction teams can build and businesses can use.
The scale has changed from startup MVPs to enterprise programs, but the job remains the same: turn uncertainty into product decisions teams can act on.
Still curious
I write The Hard Thing, a publication about applied AI beyond the demo, agentic commerce, and product judgment. The perspective comes from work across engineering, product development, startups, and enterprise technology. I also still code from time to time. Outside work, I am a stock-market investor and aspiring triathlete.