About Rafal
A results-driven professional with over 8 years in software engineering within complex agile environments, promoting and coaching best agile practices, and 3 years managing construction projects using traditional waterfall methodologies. I blend technical expertise with strategic leadership to bridge technical capabilities and business goals. Experienced in contributing to successful cross-functional teams and delivering high-quality solutions. Personal values: collaboration and teamwork, transparency, respect, delivery orientation, quality, and integrity.
Polish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Krakow (up to 50km)
Experience
- Rafal Polar Uslugi InzynierskieTechnical Agile Coach, Senior Scrum MasterDIGITAL AND ITFebruary 2022 - Today (4 years and 6 months)Krakow, PolandEngineering Excellence | Value Stream Management | Strategic DeliveryDrives deep, long-term Agile impact, leverages developer background to spearhead Agile best practices and foster collaborative mindsets for clients, consistently driving team-level agility and continuous improvement.Expertly integrates software engineering depth with strategic Agile leadership to guide cross-functional teams and executives toward optimal delivery practices within global enterprise environments.Core Impact & Responsibilities:
- Agile Transformation & Scaling: Led organizational scaling using i.e., Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe; directed cross-functional squads to synchronize interdependent complex workstreams.
- Culture & Capability Building: Mentored teams toward self-organization and technical excellence through targeted workshops, fostering high-performance mindsets and ownership.
- Strategic Stakeholder Alignment: Bridged technical teams and business leadership to harmonize hybrid (predictive/adaptive) delivery models and ensure roadmap transparency.
- Operational Excellence & Data: Optimized delivery cycles by identifying systemic bottlenecks and utilizing data-driven metrics (Velocity, Predictability, Cycle Time, CFDs, Sprint Goal success rate) for executive insights.
- Rafal Polar Uslugi InzynierskieSenior Software Engineer, Team LeadDIGITAL AND ITMarch 2018 - Today (8 years and 5 months)Krakow, PolandDeveloper | AI | Full-Stack | Mobile AppsMain responsibilities:
- Consult, discuss, refine, prepare, implement, test, and document features. End-toend software development, from business requirements gathering (UML, BPMN), solution architecture design, implementation, and testing (front end, back end, mobile apps, AI workflows), up to release with ongoing operations support.
- Software engineering tools & technologies like: .NET, JS, Python, SQL, Cloud
(GCP, Azure, AWS), React, Vue.js, Messaging (Kafka, MassTransit), Docker,Xamarin, and many more. - Dulmar Construction CompanyProject & Portfolio Manager / Construction ManagerCIVIL ENGINEERINGSeptember 2015 - January 2018 (2 years and 4 months)Kraków, PolandMain responsibilities:
- Cost estimation, creating work schedules, preparing offers, and bidding.
- Managing projects from start to end, taking care of customers, ensuring transparent communication, and progress tracking throughout the whole process.
- Lead projects from idea, through designs, to real existing structures with all required permits to be used.
- Calculate the bill of materials, and order proper elements on time.
- Manage deliveries and material providers.
- Work closely with construction participants, workers, and specialists from other branches (architecture, water and sewage, electricity, HVAC, etc).
- Manage and coordinate teams and specialists to work along with schedules.
- Projects: many engineering structures like multi-family housing, apartment blocks, single-family housing estates, concrete retaining walls, steel warehouses, etc. Creating new or demolishing existing structures, renovating historic buildings, and many more civil engineering-related tasks.
- Various software used (Microsoft tools, Autodesk tools)
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Education
- PostgraduateAGH University of Science and Technology2016Computer Software Engineering
- PostgraduateAGH University of Science and Technology2022IT Project Management
Certifications
- Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)ICAgile2026
- Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)Scrum.org2025