
Board Representative, Strategic Projects at Gadu-Gadu
Warsaw Area, Poland

Board Representative, Strategic Projects at Gadu-Gadu
Warsaw Area, Poland
10+ year of experience in Internet projects: from perl programming to launching new businesses. Deep knowledge of technologies and business models.
Area of interest:
* Identity management (OpenID and related technologies)
* Social networking and social software, community building
* Widgets, open API's, working towards more interoperable Web
* Microblogging/Lifestreaming
* Polish and worldwide Internet market
* Blogging and on-line journalism
software development, web development, journalism, writing, design, presentations, startups, identity, openid
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Researching, advising, evaluating, encouraging. Responsible for strategy of developing projects and services according to the long term vision. Still involved in BIip.pl project management.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Architecture, design, user-experience, fund raising for new revolutionary, Twitter-like-but-much-more-immersive service.
Now part of Gadu-Gadu SA
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Identity management:
* OpenID Europe Polish Representative
* Evangelizing OpenID and other user-centric identity technologies to industry, PR activity, lobbing.
* Maintaining the best Polish language source of information about digital identity technologies: Identity20.pl web page. Creating community of people interested in this area.
* Maintaining and developing the first Polish OpenID server: openid.pl. Fund raising so it will always remain a free service.
* Consulting services for companies interested in identity technologies
Consulting
* Research and Consulting services for various customers on Polish Web market
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Supermarkets industry)
June 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 8 months)
Leading Polish weblog covering Web 2.0 and related topics. Trying to balance personal point-of-view with impartial coverage of most interesting trends in Internet industry.
I was recognized as one of the most influential Polish bloggers by Edelman PR (2007) and received honourable mention in Blogroku (Blog of the year) contest for popularisation of blog-writing.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — January 2007 (9 months)
(Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 3 months)
Everything. And all.
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
(Newspapers industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
Geology 1990 — 1996
social web, identity, usability, web 2.0, startups
Bootstrap, openid
Edelman PR regards me as one of the 10 most influential bloggers in Polish blogosphere.
Honorable mention at BlogRoku 2007 Awards