I am a seasoned leader in the area of Software Development
Lifecycle and Technology Management, with 20+ years of IT experience across
Retail, Banking, Digital TV, Security Systems, Mobile and Games, and — most
recently — laboratory and analytical instrumentation. I have worked for
companies such as Samsung, Euronet Worldwide and Carrefour, and today I lead
technology development at FOSS. These organizations differed not only by industry
but also in the way IT and engineering were run — and each taught me something
different about building software that lasts.
Challenges and difficult projects — the kind that have to be
delivered despite unfavorable circumstances — have always been close to me, for
reasons I can't fully explain. On the other side of that effort, the teams I
lead are able to develop and ship solutions that are often unique on the
market.
Over the years I have lived through both the
problems and the payoffs of Agile and Waterfall, robotization and automation,
AI and agentic AI, working with IT solution providers, and certifying solutions
in different organizations. I have learned first-hand how much the outcome
depends on the process, the method and the engineering techniques behind how
software is built and delivered. Lately, a large part of my focus is on
bringing AI — and agentic workflows in particular — into everyday engineering
practice, and on helping teams adopt it in a way that genuinely changes how
they work.
I have had the opportunity to work in different
organizational structures — matrix setups, a software house, a startup, and
fully remote — leading teams whose members came from many countries and
cultures: Americans, Germans, French, Poles, Croatians, Hungarians, Indians and
Koreans. In every case the single most important success factor was real
teamwork, achieved through an individual approach to each person on the team.
I
make mistakes, I learn from them. I get up and move on.
I
strongly believe that experience and commitment on the part of the
Leader may become a factor enabling key innovations that will allow
the company to increase its competitive advantage on the market.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally." -- Lao Tzu
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or just write: mariusz.ziel@gmail.com
