Michal Blocinski — Technical Leader · Backend · AI

A 65-second motion-graphics showreel: PHP, architecture, teams and agentic engineering.

Let’s build it together.

Technical Leader · Backend · AI

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01About

From architecture → to production.

I design fintech platforms and lead the teams that build them — from architecture and roadmap to production. Lately with AI agents at my side.

years of experience
8+
people in my team
14
products built with AI agents
3

02Experience

Bigger systems → bigger teams.

  • Define and execute the complete technical roadmap; lead every key architectural decision.
  • Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of 14: 5 PHP, 2 iOS, 2 Android, 2 frontend, BA, DM, PM.
  • Primary technical contact for the business; I run technical interviews and hiring.
  • PHP 8.3
  • Symfony 6.4
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • Kubernetes
  • DDD
  • Microservices

  • Systems that catch spammers and phishers for a global email-marketing leader.
  • Architected and rewrote a legacy component into a high-load microservice replicated on Kubernetes.
  • Code reviews, performance monitoring and new monitoring rules.
  • PHP 7.4
  • DDD
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • MySQL

  • Led a 4-person team as architect: entity diagrams and the technical link to business stakeholders.
  • Software architecture and documentation; talks on design patterns for the team.
  • A Symfony bundle for monitoring external services.
  • PHP 7
  • Symfony 3.4
  • RabbitMQ
  • ElasticSearch
  • Redis

  • A customer-service dashboard that raised the quality of support.
  • Architecture of new modules, a dockerized core module, unit and functional tests.
  • PHP 7
  • Symfony
  • Docker
  • Raspberry Pi

  • A platform monitoring network devices, servers and alarm panels.
  • Linux servers and the production database; Docker configurations and CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins.
  • PHP 5
  • Symfony 2/3
  • Java EE
  • Docker
  • Jenkins

  • A website for restaurants; first hands-on work with Agile/Scrum, Git, MVC and Yii2.
  • Yii2
  • PHP 5
  • Git

03Selected work

Live products. Click through.

01Tricity · instant online quotes

Malmistrz

Instant online quotes for apartment painting — customers see the price, the business gets a ready order.

  • Symfony 7
  • React 18
  • MySQL
  • Docker
  • WebdriverIO
malmistrz.pl →

04Stack

Tools I ship with.

Backend

  • PHP 8+
  • Symfony
  • Domain-Driven Design
  • Microservices
  • REST API
  • Laravel

advanced

Data & messaging

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • ElasticSearch

advanced

Infra & DevOps

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Jenkins
  • Linux
  • Sentry
  • Graylog

advanced

Testing

  • PHPUnit
  • Behat / GWT
  • WebdriverIO
  • Functional tests

advanced

AI engineering

  • Claude API
  • Claude Code
  • Agentic workflows
  • Prompt design
  • Apache Spark

growing fast

Frontend

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Three.js
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • HTML / CSS / JS
  • PWA

intermediate

Leadership

  • Technical roadmaps
  • Mentoring
  • Hiring
  • Stakeholder reporting
  • Scrum / Agile

advanced

05Education

Engineer by training.

2013 → 2017

Gdańsk University of Technology

Engineer’s degree, Applied Computer Science

  • Thesis: data analysis with Apache Spark and deep learning.
  • Rector’s scholarship for academic excellence (top-student programme).
  • Leader and member of the “Buzz” marketing science club.

Certificates

  • AnthropicClaude Code in Action
  • AnthropicAI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
  • SmallTalkEnglish certificate B2+
Agentic engineering · animated guide How I work with AI agents → Intent, context, a human gate, orchestrator and sub-agents, tools, a verification loop, review and feedback — eight self-playing animations, two minutes.

06Contact

Let’s talk.

mail@michalblocinski.pl →

Technical leadership or senior backend / AI roles — remote or in the Tricity.

Get in touch → +48 787 449 742 Download CV (PDF) →