Here are the awesome people who work with us

Started programming since he was 15, proud to say "Code is my first love". Passionate about fitness as well as a big-time foodie and loves to travel a lot. Free time to kill - invested in competitive programming and learning technologies.

Agile enthusiast, who values communication, team spirit, and all the fancy parties outside the office. Traveller, who enjoys hiking, cycling, and kayaking, but is also into photography and hot guitar riffs. Challenge taker, passionate engineer, and great problem solver. Relocated from Ukraine in March 2013.

Joined as font-end developer, now on he is pursuing a full stack journey. Glad to be living in the information age. Believes that everything can be simplified and coded and understood as information.

Movie freak and biker, loves wandering in the forest by night with a headlight and compass. Professionally a Bamboo developer, in the past worked in corporations and in the garage - tasted both sweet success and bitter failure. Believes that there's good in people and that everything can be done. At work, he loves openness and challenges and hates suits, ties, and legacy code.

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.

Wanted to be a knight in his young days - was a four-eyed boy with a book under his arm instead. Graduated in Kharkov, UA, and worked in different outsource companies in Ukraine, serving clients from USA, Switzerland, UK, and Australia.Knows how other companies can fuck their customers. Having in mind such experiences, now he can work with clients with respect to their needs and pains. Moved to Poland in September 2014 just to join smart people in their journey. Enjoys travelling in the company of two daughters and wife, and also likes riding a mountain bike.

Product manager powered by family and friends. Have worked on both development and business sides of B2B software products, and learned that there should be no "sides". I enjoy being immersed in the community of users, customers and partners, matching their goals and pains with our know-how and tools. 

Years of maintenance of mission-critical system under the belt. Never wanted to be a manager, though his second degree is in that field. Doing things is where the fun is. Sitting in the meetings is not. If there were no computers, he would be a mathematician.

Co-Founder & Non-managing Partner. Never been a CEO nor wanted it. And proud of it. Knows a thing or two about how to write software in a non-messy manner. Craftsmanship, low cost of maintenance vs. cowboy coding and such. You know what it means. You can easily learn from him a lot of under-the -hood stuff about Java, JVM, Scala, functional programming, and why Javascript is the best language and why it's not.

Young, fast learning Java Developer. Passionate about new technologies. In free time rides a bike, when he was 16 he made over 3100 km in less than 30 days (from Tricity to Nordkapp). Hobbies also include: video games, cooking and boardgames.

Java Developer, worked in multiple companies. Loves clean code and hates every single line of code that is redundant. In his free time enjoys biking, travelling, reading books and watching TV series. Also plays contract bridge, with some successes.

Jira Platform Business Engineering Manager, as part of Spartez - Atlassian partnership leads one of four Jira bussineses. This guy is absolutely obsessed with code and computers. Started programming when he was ten in BASIC on C64. Graduated from Warsaw University of Technology with excellent grade. Has seven eight years of experience as a developer, chief architect, and team leader.

One of those weird developers that doesn't drink or even like coffee. Addicted to computers since his first BASIC program on C64. Graduate of Gdańsk University of Technology, Java developer, Linux fan with thirst for knowledge and new technologies. Traveled much around Poland to finally come back to the roots and settle down in "Tricity". Jogging maniac, bike addict, "Futurama" fan.

Started coding on Commodore 64, when its tape drive got broken and learning how to code was the only option. After graduating from Technical University and developing in Java for a few years, he realised he loves working with people in agile fashion, maybe even more than coding alone. Quality maniac, believing that the highest productivity comes from uncompromised quality. Don't be surprised to find him birdwatching in the wild or jumping at a dubstep party.

Developer extraordinaire, considers himself an expert in writing beautiful code. A few years of professional experience have thought him a thing or two about delivering robust software, but he would still rather say along with Socrates: scio me nescire. (You can't do that after Tarski, though, can you?) His favorite 18th-century philosopher is Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Loves working with people and helping them. In her free time, she likes travelling, socialising and studying psychology.

A man of many talents and interests. Perfect in cooking almost edible dishes, spoiling jokes and creating new bugs. Always is looking for something new. Today watches the stars, tomorrow will try to change the world. He started his journey with programming in high school trying a lot of languages: Turbo Pascal, C++, Python. Finally he gave his heart to Java. A proud student of 5th year of IT on the Gdańsk University of Technology.

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.

Maciek was responsible for designing, development, and maintaining web applications at Wirtualna Polska for 4 years. He believes that building software is an art of choosing tradeoffs. It is important to find the balance between short-term and long-term perspectives.

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.

Young, ambitious Java developer. Passionate about new technologies and clean code. Favorite activities include: rock climbing, violin playing and sleeping.

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.

Experienced Product Manager with technical background, passionate about building a bullet proof developer platforms, world class Developer Experience (DX) and designing "beautiful" APIs. Opinionated about User Interface designs and User Experience, believes that building a great and impactful product requires sweat, blood and tears. Graduate from Computer Science on Cracow University of Technology, traveller, fun of crime and non-fiction books, gadgets addict, makes things done.

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.

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.

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.

Loves programming and solving problems using software. Currently specializes in backend development using JVM languages. Always willing to learn new technologies, as long as their names do not start with 'Visual' and end with 'Basic'. Lifts heavy things up and puts them down for fun. An avid reader and aspiring bachata and salsa dancer.

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.

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 :).

Passionate about writing clean code after the Uncle Bob broke his paradigms. Interested in personal development to improve focus and performance of work. Enjoys bike trips. His dream is to have his own backyard and play there as a gardener.

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.

As a man in disguise, Stefan does not want to reveal his real personal information. As you know, you can destroy the real wizard only by calling his true name.

Because of love of building software for real people, he started with creation of the Polish digital library and an Internet distributed school admission system in the time when schools still had dial-up connections. Afterwards, in OpenX he participated in building the world's most popular open-source ad server helping hundreds of thousands of people establish website businesses on the web around their passions. He also co-created one of the first Internet's advertising real-time bidding system. Next, he led Wikia to grow and scale into the biggest pop-culture website with over 180 million monthly unique visitors from all over the world. Finally, his passion for great human collaboration and teamwork drove him to join Spartez to further the work on the the most widely used collaboration tools in the world from Atlassian.

I'm young and ambitious student of Gdańsk University of Technology. I'm focused on improving my programming skills in Java and in the free time I'm listening EDM. I would like to visit a lot of countries in the (I hope 'near') future.

Old as C++, solid as Java, expressive as Groovy, elastic as Python, logic as Haskell, witty as... JavaScript! But sometimes logic as JavaScript, straightforward as Scala, fast as PHP, and bright as BrainF***. :)

Passionate about testing, which means asking the hard questions. What do you need? Why do you need it? How will you know it is what you need? What do you expect to gain from it? Prepare answers, he will ask them. Interested in Software Development, as it's considered a great source of issues. Not only issues with the software itself, but product ideas, development methodologies, techniques, processes and practices. Where everything, every decision you make, depends on the underlying context. Once the issue is challenging enough, he will spend days understanding its root cause, its impact, and potential solutions, hopefully addressing the source.

Believe that everything in this world can be done, just need to define a goal. Like to contribute in a big projects that will lead the industry and will be used by thousands of users. After the work - happy father of a little princess. Ukrainian, living in Poland since April 2015.

Moved from Atena to Spartez to become a real g(r)eek code warrior. Father of two children and uncounted number of bugs. In free time plays board games with passion and time to time volleyball.

New technologies enthusiast. Her life motto is: "While the difficult takes time, the impossible just takes a little longer."

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).

UX/UI Designer working on user-facing features of Atlassian Jira. Born and raised in Eastern Poland. Proud citizen of Gdańsk since the early 2000s (with a small, one-year affair with Poznań). Before Spartez he has worked on more than 300 projects around the world - for both small startups and big enterprises. He once said he would never touch Git, how do times change... He loves rounded fonts and Cool Gray Pantones. He has a beautiful brown Labrador Retriever called Kovu.

Programmer by day, by night dark avenger. ;P

Likes searching for and solving problems. Appreciates clean code and intelligent people. He confesses superiority of Linux over everything else. Happy with travel, sailing, Civ V, and spending time with his little son.

Likes interdisciplinary multitasking, undertaking creative challenges, jumping into deep water and overcoming her fear of heights. Currently on a quest across the uncharted territory of product marketing at Spartez. Blond but should not be judged by appearance. Beware.

Lukasz has started his journey with programming when studying Mathematic. Nowadays even after countless projects, meetings and solved issues, he is still passionate about how to make technology more useful for himself and everyone around him. This is probably the main factor why he enjoys experiencing industry making DevOps transformation. In his spare time he prefers to relax by running through empty city streets and doing manual crafts.

Passionate about IT and physics. Wrote his first computer program when he was 10. Since 2011 professional software developer. Has seen a lot of crappy code and first and foremost is trying not to write such. After work spends time training his piano skills and playing squash.

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.

Was working for a corporation for a while (learned lots of stuff there), now enjoying awesomeness of agile workplace at Spartez. A proud father of three and a happy husband of one. Fancies: crafting clean, quality code (constantly learning - Uncle Bob, please guide me!), running (hoping to run a marathon one day), progressive rock (weird rhythms and endless solos FTW!), mountain hiking.