Pawel Gdula

Pawel Gdula is a seasoned technology professional with extensive experience in system architecture and technical leadership across various companies. Currently serving as a Senior Staff System Architect at Optimizely, Pawel focuses on driving technical initiatives within cross-functional product teams while managing complex data-intensive systems using technologies such as Java, MySQL, Hadoop, and ElasticSearch. Previous roles include Principal Architect at Aklamio, where responsibilities encompassed the development of cross-team engineering objectives and the improvement of engineering processes, and System Architect at Zenjob, emphasizing backend distributed system development and microservices migration. With a robust history of architecture management, team leadership, and hands-on development in organizations like ubitricity and OUTFITTERY, Pawel demonstrates a strong commitment to advancing technology practices and processes, underpinned by an academic background in computer physics from Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej and further studies at Poznan University of Technology.