Here are the awesome people who work with us

Archaeologist who specializes in discovering the past of applications. Always willing to learn and discover secrets in legacy products. She is passionate about testing and sharing knowledge with local test community. In spare time loves to knit and brew beer.

Hates the inertia of large teams bound by corporate red tape, loves the agility of small, competent, self-organising teams. Over time, worked on many products in various technologies, ranging from the Linux kernel/drivers to JEE SOAed apps. After 8 years spent in a corporate environment as tech lead and architect, he decided to move on to greener pastures. These turned out to be that of Spartez/Atlassian's, where he's currently the architect for Atlassian Bamboo.

Java Developer who is a developer by choice and codes in Java by hand of fate. Focused on becoming a true professional by actively learning to be better at every craft-related activity. This might take him a while, since he believes that only bad developers think that they are good enough. It is Apple where he looks for inspiration for a level of quality a software product should have.

His passion to programming started with portable video game console. As a kid he learned C and C++. During his studies at Gdańsk University of Science he discovered other languages like Java and C#. He likes to juggle.

Professionally a pixel-shifter fascinated with human-computer interaction. Privately a nomad and caffeine addicted dinosaur of the interwebz (Online since 1994™) that just tries to make the web a better place.

Co-Founder & Non-managing Partner. Used to be a CEO. Got bored of it. Now taking care of product development. Occasionally trains people in agile methodologies.

Passionate about science and new technologies. In free time loves to play electric guitar or watch sci-fi series or both at the same time.

Psychologist turned into a Product Manager. Passionate about building products that solve problems for their users. Great fan of customer-centred and data-driven approach and strong believer in the power of teamwork. Mom of three who in her free time writes a blog about children’s books.

Rafal is known as pragmatic manager. Managed multiple IT projects, programs and project portfolios for many years. Now he’s getting things done as Program Manager in Spartez. Passionate about basketball, skiing and his two awesome kids.

Web developer with thirst for knowledge. Loves good UI and new front-end technologies. After hours, board games enthusiast and sports fan.

A physicist that turned into a Product Manager. Passionate about end users, how products are actually used and what value they bring to them. Big fan of data-driven approach, self organising teams and agile methodologies. After works, mom of three, who in her "free time" bakes cakes, travels, plays Pokemon or Minecraft (still learning) and watches Netflix at night.

Passionate Java developer who likes to attack a problem from different angles to eventually find the most suitable and elegant solution. Always willing to learn new ways of creating clean, readable, and bulletproof code. He's got some years of experience in creating enterprise systems as well as desktop applications. Believes that it is not important how good you are, it is important how good you can be.

Passionate Java Developer. Enjoys working in an international environment. Collects experiences from various IT and development domains. Values work-life balance with a focus on time spent with family and friends. Hopelessly stuck in his dreams about future life. Likes to travel around the world and discover cultures from a local, non-tourist perspective.

UX Designer with an affinity for testing, Anna enjoys doing research nearly as much as the actual designing. A fan of Star Wars, Marvel Movies and DC Comics, in her free time she can be found reading, playing board games or watching Netflix. Her Patronus is Norwegian Forest cat.

The BOFH, aka system administrator. Do not anger Magdalena, for she has root access and isn't afraid to use it. Linux passionate, also likes to work on OS X, but only when she doesn't have to pay for it. Considers dealing with major accidents the best fun, unless she caused them. In free time reads a lot and tries her hand at writing SF and fantasy shorts. Maybe someday she'll write a novel.

In Testing and Quality Assurance since 2006. Did: manual and automated testing, test management, quality assurance management, team leading, coaching, test consulting. Now a Quality Assistant. Spartez changed his life completely - the way he sees testing, who should test, and what should be the role of a QA. Loves Atlassian products and loves Jira. Hates bullshit, to customers and to employees. "Damn, I am in the right place!" Privately, happy father of two daughters and running enthusiast.

Java developer who enjoys solving problems, opened for new ideas and constructive criticism, happy to inspire people. After hours he loves mountain biking, exploring new countries and playing bridge with friends.

Worked as Java Developer for Soldevelo and Lufthansa. Enthusiast of JVM and Java Platform. Personally likes endurance sports and spends almost every vacation hitchhiking in the Polish mountains.

A performance-oriented marketer driven by data, content and the user's voice, he believes that assumptions should never be made and prefers to firmly uphold the principles of - Listen. Adapt. Deliver. He cut his teeth in marketing by serving and supporting affiliate marketers, publishers and advertisers, through multifaceted roles in the analytics domain. He was initially allured to Poland for the love of a polish maiden, and has stayed for the fine pierogi & disco polo music. In his spare time he enjoys cooking, travelling (particularly to Japan), reddit, board games, running and any other activity that peaks his adrenaline. Fun-ish fact - Back in 2011 he had the pleasure of camping inside/on an air traffic control tower in the Ivory Coast for 1 month as part of an interventional peace mission.

Started coding on his C64 at a young age, went from Java to .NET and back again in his professional career. When not learning Haskell or hacking his Arduino, is also a natural language and history geek. Enjoys reading and hiking.

Our manager responsible for development of Spartez products. Always dedicated to organisation optimisation, making teams great and getting things done. Fan of board games and sci-fi movies.

Young, passionate Java developer. Previously worked as intern in Atos Polska. Keeps focus on learning and values. Aware of his weaknesses and strengths. Loves simplicity and good design. After hours likes to play video games, do sports and learn new technologies.

Started programming when he was 12 hacking through Lua scripts. Since then kept diving deeper into the field and found in web a way of being paid to do what he loves. Knows how to throw a boomerang. Two spaces, CamelCase, same line brackets and lots of coffee. Looking for the right question of life, universe and everything else :D

Started coding 7 years ago in C++  and decided to move to Java 4 years ago. Believes that the best way to learn is by gathering experience.  Thinks that the best way to be successful is to never give up. In free time loves to read good book or run(specially in cold winter days).

His passion is clean code. Loves Java for portability and hates it for being so lame. In free time, he greps random files in the root file system to find something new. So, if you're using Windows, then keep an eye on your computer - that Linux fanboy will install Debian for you when you're out for lunch!

Interested in all kind of technologies, especially web applications, mobile and game development. He's seen some shitty code out there (and probably also wrote some himself), so now he tries to write in a clean, readable manner. In his spare time he likes to play board games, travel, ride a bike, or... do some more coding!

Passionate, fast learning and ambitious software engineer. Always willing to learn new technologies and help others people. Believes in constant progress and self-improvement. Graduated from Cracow University of Technology with excellent grade. He's got about five years of experience in creating enterprise systems and web pages. After hours he likes to read books, skiing, swimming, playing with electronics and spend time with lovely family.

Interested in computers and tech ever since he can remember. Started programming in Turbo Pascal in the '90s, then switched to C/C++, did some PHP, Java and C#. Finally discovered the beauty of JavaScript and stayed with it for good. Loves functional programming, hates side-effects. Planning poker is his second favorite poker, after Texas hold'em. When he's not coding he likes to play basketball and enjoy some good single malt whisky, not necessarily in that order.

Passionate about programming since his early age. After being stuck in PHP environment, he decided to call it a day and change his fate by joining Spartez as a Java developer. His hobbies include travel, e-sports, and board games, he also enjoys playing chess.

Imran is a UX designer from Hyderabad, India. I've primarily worked with startups before Spartez. I occasionally blog and sometimes get featured too. Here are some fun facts about me: I designed a spinal implant as a part of my Masters project; I've got 4 Bonsai trees and been growing them for 2 years now; I designed and sold notebooks which are meant for UX Designers (my first entrepreneurial stint); I've designed and built a webapplication for hiring, when I was searching for a job.

A high efficiency caffeine-to-software processing pipeline. Supply with chocolate regularly for optimal performance. Spontaneous profanities emissions might occur during extended operation.

A backend developer not afraid of frontend technologies. Fast learner, eager to raise up to new challenges. Allergic to legacy code, overly bloated frameworks and bureaucracy. Enjoys photography and indie music. Automotive nerd.

Vitalii moved from Ukraine in May 2015. He is a front-end developer that cares about end-users. He loves his job - that's why he spends a lot of free time learning new things that can be useful for project or company, or just for fun.

Software Engineer. Definitely not a fan of flame wars about supremacy of one technology over another. Born to create things, servant to four cats and an astronomer wannabe with a bad case of vertigo. Appreciate good whiskies and jokes, although bad at making both.

Marek is a Product Manager. He's been building digital products for web and mobile for the last 13 years, both in enterprise and consumer markets. Delightful customer experience and early customer validation drives him to deliver solutions that people depend on and love to use. He joined Spartez this year and values its open culture built on truth - empowering everyone to take ownership and release their creativity. He's an advocate of lean experiments and learning quickly from any failures.

Java developer passionate about agile and clean code. Unix geek. Enjoys outdoor activities like mountains hiking and rock climbing.

Maciek is pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at the Gdańsk University of Technology. Web and JavaScript enthusiast. Prefers simplicity over complexity. Passionate about code quality, UX and performance. He has a keen eye for detail. Enjoys variety of sport activities, especially crossfit and mountain hiking.

Co-Founder & Managing Partner. Spartez CEO. Focused on the growth of the business, the culture, and the values. The main person visible outside of the company (at numerous conferences and events), where he shares his experience, the vision, and quite controversial opinions on our industry. Sometimes he is still able to find time to run a deep development or admin training about Atlassian tools. Codes practically only at home and at night.

Considers himself natural born lucky and thinks he lives in the best of all possible worlds. Obsessed with games mechanics (both computer and board games). You can find him on a dance floor on any good salsa party around. Prefers smart and elegant solutions - that's why he fell in love with Erlang from the first sight. Doesn't believe in magical algorithms or libraries - has to understand how they work and what their limits are before he uses them. Some say he talks too much and they're probably right :).

Combines her passion for the tech world, employer branding as well as collaborating with, and for people in her daily work. Born and raised in Kraków - probably the best city in the whole world. Finds reading, wandering and exploring the world, hanging out with friends the most interesting activities. Believes that "we know ourselves only to the extent we have been tested.

Product Management enthusiast and passionate advocate of data-driven approach to product development. Her areas of expertise focus around web applications usability and performance. Born and bread electronics engineer, she gets XKCD humor, has low standards of fashion, feels the pain of server outages, can draw boxes and arrows, and is just close enough to the metal to know that stuff doesn’t happen by magic alone.

His name is Mac. He's been working in the Java world for 10+ years now. Proud member of the Fisheye & Crucible team. In his free time, he loves traveling, motorcycling, making music, movies, and recently he's fallen in love in triathlon. His next goal is to finish the crazy Iron Man race.

Frond-end developer with a tendency to perfectionism and pixel-perfection (whenever it's reasonable), making JIRA a better product. Privately huge fan of Elvis and martial arts, for years trying to catch his wife on mountain trails.

Technical geek wearning a manager's hat, always keen to accept new challenges. Finds fulfillment in enabling others and growing people around him. Battle cry: progress over perfection.

Born exactly one year before the Chernobyl disaster; turning dreams into reality ever since then.

I came from Ukraine in 2016. Although in the past I was a .NET developer, one day I decided to go the other way and join Spartez as a front-end intern. In my spare time I like spending time with my family, dancing, playing board games or reading books.

Applied mathematician by education and computer programmer by heart. For many years I used to work as a contractor for some of the largest financial institutions performing roles of an architect, team leader, project manager, java developer. I am focused on driving the improvements in coding, architecture and development processes trying to make both clients and development teams happy. Since the end of 2014 I live in Poland (first in Wroclaw and now in Gdansk). I am creator and maintainer of JXLS library (jxls.sf.net).

Co-founder and Managing Partner. CEO. Responsible for ensuring that the company does not collapse quicker than it grows - administration, logistics, accounting, legal aspects. Also handles money (don't hit him with a bus, please). Works 80h a week and thus still finds time to do some coding.

A graduate of postgraduate studies in Project Management (PMI) at Kozminski University and Management at the University of Gdansk. Jacek believes that you need to develop yourself all the time. Professionally — PMM at Spartez. Previously he worked as a PM at Engine marketing agency, where he was responsible for (among others) brands: Leroy Merlin and BMW/MINI. The projetct that he led won the gold Effie for Long Term Marketing Excellence, Silver Effie in the Retail category and 2 distinctions in the "Kreatura" competition. Before the Engine Agency, Jacek worked as a consultant in the 2m group agency. He worked with Atena on projects in the field of internal and external communications, and the company Terma, where he worked in marketing on Polish and Wester Europe market. Jacek has always been an active member of many organizations e.g. – Studenckie Forum Business Centre Club, Noble Manhattan Coaching Polska, Stowarzyszenie Młodzi Demokraci, AEGEE. Finalist in many competitions – YPMA (Young Project Management Program) 2012, Global Management Challenge Euromanager 2009, Young in Business 2011. Privately he cannot sit still in one place – loves to read, going to concerts, dance and go beyond his comfort zone – for example by bungee jumping or learning constantly something new (recently snowboarding).

Karolina was one of these annoying kids asking "Why this? Why that? But why?". As she grew older and became UX Designer she’s still asking same questions to help users solve their problems. After work she loves sewing and trying new recipes in the kitchen.

Passionate Java developer who always has in mind user interface. Pays attention to details and always try to deliver sparking joy code. Trully curious about users feedback and how to change product to make users more productive. When she isn't coding, probably she's reading comments and analize usage statistics. In her free time she enjoy creating scrapbook postcards.

Graduate of Gdańsk University of Technology. Interested in software testing. He likes cycling, good movies, and MOG (multiplayer online games). Beginner diver. Makes our office awesome and our employees and customers happy.

First and foremost is not let anyone down. On the contrary - he tends to get things to the highest gear at the nearest opportunity. Believes that if one does anything, one might do it at the best of his abilities. Aims to put passion and uncompromising dedication to anything he does. (See those four drinks there? Drinking them all at once!) Has a C/C++ background but has always been leaning towards Java. Now he's diving deep into Python and Javascript. Finds himself comfortable with the most complex algorithms and problems, always aiming to emerge with simple and elegant solutions.

As an amateur, he started coding in 1991, then he turned professional in 1997. Since then, he has touched C++, Java, PHP, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, at least dozen of similar technologies, and had to handle frustrated users. Nowadays, spends his spare time with his sons and playing tennis.

Computer geek that likes board and video games. Especially competitive ones. When possible, tries to squeeze JavaScript into everything that has a CPU. Lazy fan of automatization and containerization. Hopes that someday daily chores could be done by Docker.

He’s a polyglot who speaks couple of Java-ish and few Human languages. He wrote his first Hello World in Basic on ancient ZX Spectrum and has been eating code for breakfast ever since. After work he’s a huge Doctor Who fan and cheap-flight traveler. As a proper introvert he always thinks inside the box, because it’s bigger on the inside.