Bartłomiej Ignasiak

Experience

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  Freelancer / Contractor

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Web developer
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  Komputronik S.A.

  Jan 2007 - Oct 2009

  • Senior Software Developer

    Mar 2009 - Oct 2009

  • Software Developer

    Jan 2007 - Mar 2009
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  Allegro

  Oct 2009 - Mar 2017

  Responsible for monitoring systems (metrics collecting and vizualization, metrics processing, event correlations, dependencies and anomalies detection, automatomated notifications). Managing two teams, one with software engineers, another operational/DevOps. Migrating Allegro platform to JVM, microservices, cloud based environment using newest technologies on the market. Helping teams with technical decisions, aligning it with business directions.

  • Team Manager / Product Owner

    Oct 2015 - Mar 2017

  • Solutions Architect

    Sept 2013 - Oct 2015

  • Senior Software Developer

    Mar 2011 - Sept 2013

  • Software Developer

    Oct 2009 - Jan 2011
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  Amazon

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2024

  Leader of the Amazon Alexa Text-to-Speech (TTS) Product teams, delivering innovative adaptive speech and language solutions to Amazon's global Alexa users and B2B/B2C customers.Further expanded to serve other Amazon's business lines as part of Amazon AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) division. Leading organisation focused on 1) automating processes of synthetic voices creation and on 2) adopting new TTS (Text To Speech) technologies at scale.Working with people in various roles (Managers, Engineers, Scientists, Domain experts) across multiple geographical locations.Focused on people growth, organisation business and technical vision, strategy and efficiency of its execution. TTS (Text To Speech) department.Lead team/teams with people in various roles (Engineers, Scientist, Domain experts) across 2 locations.Focused on people growth, their performance, hiring in fast paced growing environment. Staying connected with technical decisions and making business one. Took part in preparing Alexa voice for launch on Japanese market, launched Chinese Mandarin, Korean, Modern Standard Arabic voices in AWS Polly service, currently focused on research projects.

  • Senior Software Development Manager - Amazon Generation Runtime

    Nov 2022 - Jan 2024

  • Senior Software Development Manager - Voice Factory

    Sept 2021 - Oct 2022

  • Software Development Manager

    Jan 2017 - Sept 2021
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  RTB House

  Jan 2025 - now

  Director of Engineering – Bidding Platform

  Managing Real Time Bidding platform for advertisements re-targeting. Managing roadmaps, drive delivery performance, ensure growth and scalability.