The Buddy Team

Buddy
5 min readAug 13, 2018

Simon Szczepankowski

CEO, Product Manager & Co-Founder

SaaS entrepreneur with over 15 years experience in IT. Previously bootstrapped springloops.com, a Subversion hosting service for web developers that attracted > 5000 paying customers from 120 countries. Managed IT projects for the Dutch Air Force, KLM, Mercedes Benz NL, Ford NL and Merck PL divisions. One of the few Google AdSense Premium partners in Poland. Author of the youngest Polish IT book debut (Windows XP Optimization, 2003).

Raphael Sztwiorok

CTO, Project Manager & Co-Founder

Managed large GIS & Big Data projects for the Polish Army & Norwegian Defence Procurement Division via Techmex SA. Participated in the design and development of large mapping and geo services used by NATO for COWI (Danish Consulting Group). Acted as Senior IT manager in the Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program. Senior Scrum Master, Docker & microservices expert. Hybrid cloud specialist & DevOps consultant to Buddy’s Enterprise customers.

Thomas Korwin-Gajkowski

Blockchain Solution Architect

Blockchain Team Lead at KODAKOne. Distributed Ledger/Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Software Advisor, Organizer and speaker at workshops related to Blockchain/Smart Contract programming and Cryptomarkets for Polish, German and Swiss financial institutions.

Martin Kudla

Software Architect & Co-Founder

20+ years experience in IT. Architect of flight and hotel booking platform for weg.de & price comparison engine for idealo.de, the 46th largest German website. Release management & data migration expert.

Michael Hankus

Senior Software Engineer & Co-Founder

15+ years experience in IT. Back-end co-creator for Polish Satellite Center of Regional Operations — at the time the only satellite operation center in CEE. Creator of ArcGis & GeoMedia-based tools for the Polish government. Node.js, Docker & Virtualization expert.

Thomas Prus

Senior Software Engineer

20+ years experience in IT. Lead developer of one of the largest German car websites and the largest online mother community in Germany (netmums de). Java & Spring expert.

Alexander Kus

Chief Growth Officer

Attracted 2000+ paying customers via outbound channels for springloops.com — a Subversion Hosting Platform for web developers — and BamBam! — the project management software for experts. Community Manager and caretaker of the 10% month-to-month growth of Buddy CI/CD.

Paul Olek

Head of UX/UI & Co-Founder

15+ design experience. Managed UX design for the European franchises of YellowPages and Rochesponsored projects. Years of experience as a hired gun by US-based startups such as Swingvy and Allocate.ai. Panelist at UX/UI events. Check out his amazing portfolio on Dribbble.

Octavia Nowakowska

Head of Customer Support

Manages the day-to-day customer support operations in Poland and USA time zones for Buddy customers from 70+ countries.

Paul Kapala

Senior Full Stack Web Developer

Buddy’s Node.js whisperer on-duty. Has a thing for cloud management operations. JavaScript is strong with this one. Loves doing things on the Go.

Darek Sztwiorok

Java Developer

Apprentice of Martin & Tom — his Java masters — looking forward to replacing them when the time is right (“there can only be one”). Created a deployment module for releasing web projects from Subversion repositories to web servers for springloops.com used by thousands of users worldwide.

Lucas Czulak

Data Analyst

Reads between the green lines of the digital rain of data. Looks up new opportunities on the Web and puts out fires before they grow in scale. A quiet mind with an interminable vision.

Chris Stryczek

Head of Test Engineering

Manages Buddy’s fleet of test & staging environments. Responsible for running 10k automated tests challenging new additions to Buddy while maintaining the speed and highavailability of the service.

Michael Bigos

Test Engineer and Technical Support Specialist

Continuously amazed with use cases reported by Buddy customers. Reproduces tens of inquires to answer questions and solve issues on a day-to-day basis.

Patrick Trojanowski

Customer Support Specialist

Our tour guide to the “Aha!” moment of the ultimate Continuous Delivery workflow. An incurable optimist, tirelessly responding to the constant flow of user inquiries.

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