Leszek Gruchała

Work Experience

• 2013.03 → now Owner, Software Engineer at Pirum Software

  Sector: Consulting, software and solutions for enterprise

  Self-employed at Pirum Software, delivering good quality software for interested companies.

• 2013.02 → now Senior Software Engineer, Team Leader at BLStream

  Sector: Software and solutions for telecommunication companies

  Building and maintenance of Call Center and Point of Sales application for Polish telecommunication company, designing application architecture, research of new technologies, possibilities and ideas. Building the application through three tiers: database, backend and frontend. Leading the team technically and supporting Technical Project Manager with team and cost management, task delegation as well direct and daily communication with customer.

• 2011.11 → 2013.01 Software Engineer at BLStream

  Sector: Software and solutions for telecommunication companies

  Building and maintenance of Call Center and Point of Sales application for Polish telecommunication company, designing application architecture, research of new technologies, possibilities and ideas. Besides Java backend, Migrating frontend to Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery 1.8 (from 1.3) as well working on Oracle DB optimisation and partitioning.

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  Leszek is a highly motivated specialist, who is very determined to solve technical problems while implementing projects in order to meet customer requirements. His technical and analytical skills enable him to be a confident software engineer. Leszek can easily design a new architecture of application, solve problems and make documentation for a customer. He's always focused on his job and is able to help other coworkers. Highly recommended. by Piotr Wierzba, Project Manager, more recommendations at LinkedIn

• 2008.01 → 2012.12 Founder and Co-leader at Szczecin Java User Group

  Sector: Non-profit community support

  Szczecin Java User Group intends to share information about Java, support their members, and to convince and teach people about the strength of Java. If you are looking for more detailed information, it is available in Polish at our official homepage on http://szczecin.jug.pl.

• 2012.01 → 2012.04 Organizer at DevCrowd 2012

  Sector: Non-profit community support

  4th edition of Szczecin JUG conference, previously known as java4people. More info at http://devcrowd.pl.

• 2011.04 → 2011.10 Team leader, Java Developer at Nordic Consulting & Development Company

  Sector: Software and solutions for insurance companies

  Product definition and development of internal insurance web application in SaaS model.

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  Leszek is a devoted manager, developer and collegue. Together with clients, he works focused to build software and solutions that satisfy the clients needs and wishes in the most efficient way possible. Leszek is a key player in the scopedefining process, where requirements and solutions are being defined. Leszek has great technical skills, and the ability to communicate with client on a business level, so misunderstandings are avoided. by Rene Bo Christensen, Chief Operating Officer, more recommendations at LinkedIn

• 2008.07 → 2011.10 Owner at Pirum Software

  Sector: Consulting, software and solutions for enterprise

  Cooperation with Nordic Consulting & Development Company. Collaboration with other people where I can contribute value.

• 2010.12 → 2011.04 Organizer at java4people 2011

  Sector: Non-profit community support

  3rd edition of java4people conference. 130 attendees on 2 session paths and workshops. You can find more at http://www.java4people.com.

• 2009.03 → 2011.03 Technical Project Manager at Nordic Consulting & Development Company

  Sector: Software and solutions for insurance companies

  Collaboration with Norwegian insurance company. Long term project with aim to deliver easy to use web application with ability to buy insurance for many products (private, agriculture and business line), user profile, making claims and possibilities to maintain bought insurances using Google Web Toolkit. Ability to use the application for agent purposes. Analysis and finding solutions of further enhancements with respect of customer needs. Introducing agile concepts and using partially SCRUM methodology.

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  Leszek is very good organiser and help his clients to solve their problems in a creative way. He is able to find some fast solutions with reasonable cost and the solutions also match the clients needs. Leszek take care of his clients in a gentle way and make us understand difficult "IT-language" without feeling stupid. He manage also to give his clients the feeling that our needs is really important and that he really care about us and our clients best. by Ingunn Skaalen-Berg, Chief of Insurance.
  Leszek is very good organiser. He is able to handle many things and remember about everything. He's great person to work with. He is ambitious and learning fast. He can clearly tell what he needs. Even if he is missing some data, Leszek is able balance risks and take decision. He is a nice person and builds friendly relationship with all the people, employees and customers. by Paweł Stawicki, Developer, more recommendations at LinkedIn

• 2008.12 → 2009.04 Organizer at java4people 2009

  Sector: Non-profit community support

  The second and largest in the north-west Poland Java related conference organized as a part of work for Szczecin Java User Group with almost 80 participants. I was the main organiser and coordinator. The event was made with help of Szczecin JUG community.

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  I was on 4 Java conferences in 2009 in Poland and java4people was one of the best organized one. I admire ease and effectiveness of Leszek activities. He was able to successfully invite very good conference speakers and initiate friendly atmosphere on the event. I agree Leszek is truly natural born conference organizer. I highly recommend his work on that field. by Piotr Paradziński, participant, Developer, more recommendations at LinkedIn

• 2008.04 → 2009.02 Software Engineer at Nordic Consulting & Development Company

  Sector: Software and solutions for insurance companies

  Google Web Toolkit as front-end of TIA DB to build web application for insurance company allowing people to buy insurances and making claims through Internet.

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  Natural born leader having deep empathy towards other people. Leszek is extremely devoted to his professional activities. He is able to conceptualize the "big picture" without neglecting technicalities. In fact he feels the pulse of bleeding edge technologies, and actively promotes advanced software development methods among the team. His approach to the development process is very systematic and his approach to solutions is highly pragmatic. Thanks to his kind personality he builds friendly relations with customers. by Karzimierz Pogoda, Software Architect, more recommendations at LinkedIn

• 2008.01 → 2008.04 Founder and Organiser at java4people 2008

  Sector: Non-profit community support

  The first Java related conference in Szczecin called java4people with 60 participants. I organised this event by myself from A to Z. The conference was also start of Szczecin JUG. You can find more information about conference at http://java4people.com

• 2006.03 → 2008.03 Administrator/Programmer/Help Desk at The Main Library of Szczecin University

  Sector: high school library

  Linux administrator on Debian and OpenSuSe machines. Responsibility for all hardware at the Main Library. Support for people working there.