Summary
Łukasz Miłkowski is a Lead Software Engineer based in Krakow with 14 years of professional experience designing and operating backend and infrastructure systems across startups and scale-ups. He currently leads engineering at Blocknative and runs his own consultancy, Dark Raven, combining hands-on development with strategic technical leadership. His background spans senior roles at Figment, Filestack and others, delivering resilient distributed services and mentoring teams through complex platform migrations. Trained in computer games programming and informatics, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset and an appreciation for performance and reliability. Colleagues describe him as a steady problem solver who pairs deep technical skill with entrepreneurial initiative.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Games and Programming Skills, Master's degree, Computer Games and Programming Skills at Jagiellonian University
Engineer's degree, Informatics, Engineer's degree, Informatics at Cracow University of Technology
Polish, English