Here are the awesome people who work with us

Software Engineer at Spartez. Believes in constant progress and self-improvement. Huge fan of JVM languages and functional programming. After hours he likes to read books, mainly popular science and crime stories.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kamil spent 7 years in the UK (4 at uni, 3 at work). For 3 years he worked at Morgan Stanley on low latency java trading systems. Then he decided to move back to Gdańsk and join Spartez to develop Crucible and FishEye's back end. After hours he's an unrealised musician, learning to play the organ and to sing.

Product portfolio manager at Spartez. Powered by family & friends, theatre, British comedy, and swimming. An avid reader. Currently consuming content on linguistics and history. Previously leading the international roll-out of an edtech company, shaping both development and consulting sales/marketing teams in 100+ projects for 40 markets. Now tuned in to Atlassian JIRA users, matching their pains and gains with Spartez agile and Atlassian know-how. Software is her second love, so helping it thrive internationally is just it.

Linux admin and more, interested in Open Source technologies (but not limited to). I've worked for small and huge companies, from all-you-can-do environments to very narrowly specialised, looking for fun and "make a difference" tasks.

Management passionate with pragmatic approach to methodologies, meaning that if something is not working for you you're using it wrong. Has a broad experience in IT development - worked as a designer, developer, tester, business analyst, project and product manager. Currently helps Spartez teams to improve their work on a daily basis. University of Warsaw alumni.

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. Used to be a CEO. Got bored of it. Now taking care of product development. Occasionally trains people in agile methodologies.

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.

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

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.

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.

Jakub Kurcek is a seasoned Product Manager with engineering background. Believes that only by understanding the past we can avoid repeating mistakes in future. Huge fan of self organising teams, agile methodologies, data-driven decision making and getting things done. After work you can find him talking all sort of historical trivia, reading crime fiction, running or playing grand strategy games. He also finds it odd to write about himself in third person.

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

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.

Highly creative professional focused on software quality aspect. He likes to Implement simple solutions that make a difference. Especially in open and agile companies which let him to try out things. With background in computational physics he loves to identify patterns and solve complex problems. Moved from polish silicon valley (Kraków) to beautiful Spartez seaside quarter (Gdańsk) to bring his family closer to relatives. He loves water related sports like swimming, diving, or sailing.

A linguist in the land of technology. A tech writer/wordsmith in constant pursuit of finding ways to make users’ interaction with documentation more pleasant/ less painful. Secret bookworm passionate about all sports which don’t involve a ball.

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).

Open for each single new technology to work with. Switching between various toolsets is not a problem. Always honest, never sweeps under the carpet. People outside the industry actually neither know what he does nor can remember his specialization. Hates suits.

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.

Geeky developer who believes that every problem requires only some form of a screwdriver to solve (preferably a sonic one). Wrote a birthday card program in BASIC at the age of 7, moved to other programming languages since then. Privately a father, husband, SF fan and a hopeless gamer. Wears clothes no one over the age of 12 should wear.

Wrote his first program in Pascal in 1992 using a pencil and a sheet of paper. Graduated in computer science from Gdańsk University of Technology in 2004 and started a career as C/C++/Java developer in Lufthansa Systems. Loves topics related with the source code quality, code metrics, static analysis, and the test automation.

New technologies enthusiast and always thirsty for knowledge. Loves active recreation and many team sports as a player and as a fan. Board games fanatic.

Was born in Kaliningrad, but spent her childhood and a part of youth in Kyiv, where she graduated from a design university. Used to work in media, marketing, and e-commerce companies as an illustrator, graphic and UX/UI designer. Moved to Poland in July 2014. Feels herself happy when creating beautiful things, taking photos, traveling, and acquiring new knowledge and skills. When not doing those activities, she reads books about art and cooks Italian dishes.

Started coding in C at the age of 13 because he was bored. After living in 3 different cities and 2 countries, he decided to settle in the lovely town of Gdańsk. Hobbies include cooking pasta, playing videogames and sweating in saunas.

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.

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.

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.

Graduate of Gdańsk University of Technology, gained his first technical experience working for several years for Wirtualna Polska S.A. Moved then for 7 years to the UK to work for PlusNet PLC and South Yorkshire Police just to realise the grass is not that greener there and came back to Gdańsk, his place of origin.

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.

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

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.

UX/UI Designer working on Atlassian DevTools, but always more than happy to share his visual design expertise with other teams. 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.

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.

Started learning Pascal at school because it was the way to escape classes. While studing at university started working in a big software company. Relocated from Russia to Gdansk to realize the dream of writing a product which can enjoy its' users.