Jun 14, 2026
I love building, enabling others, and optimizing processes — and right now those three things have never been more powerful in combination. We're living in one of the fastest-moving moments in software and modernization in history, and yet most organizations are still operating on an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality. That mantra is getting people left behind. Breaking things is now part of fixing them. Whether it's a small team wearing too many hats or a global enterprise with deeply entrenched workflows, there are always bottlenecks — and there has never been a better tool for clearing them than AI. Another part of what draws me to this field is that conversations about AI, a hard science, have a way of quickly becoming conversations about philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and ethics, the soft sciences. That breadth is rare in any technical discipline — and it's exactly the kind of work I want to be in the middle of. I came to the U.S. speaking only Polish. I learned the language, earned a DoD scholarship, finished two graduate degrees — both while working full time, renovating a house, raising children through a pandemic, and assisted teaching software engineering courses to UPenn graduate students on evenings and weekends. I've never chosen the comfortable path. I've chosen the path that makes me better. I think about the current AI moment the way engineers in the early internet era must have looked at packet switching: a fundamental shift in how the world processes and shares information, with implications we're still too close to fully see. My background is unusual — government R&D, energetics, defense — but I've built real AI systems, managed real teams through ambiguous and high-stakes environments, and developed a reputation for finding the technical leverage point that others may miss. I know I have a lot of great years ahead of me. I want to spend them at the bleeding edge of something that matters. I've been fortunate to be surrounded by driven, accomplished people my whole life — family, friends, colleagues — and what I've taken from that environment isn't competition, it's a standard of evolution. You keep getting better, or you fall behind the person you could have been. Every time I've gotten a great opportunity, I've never felt like I finally deserved it or had made it. I've felt indebted to it. Like it came with an obligation to maximize it. Not satisfaction at having landed somewhere, but the urgency of someone who knows the clock is running and intends to make every rep count. I spent years doing the hard work of pivoting — from chemical engineering to armament engineering to computer science — specifically so I could use that technical range to help others build effective products faster than they thought possible. The barrier to entry is collapsing. My mission is to help people walk through the door.