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Krzysztof Kawa

@krzysztofkawa

Staff Data Engineer at GSK who architected an agentic platform for designing novel proteins and supporting drug discovery.

Poland

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At GSK, I provide hands-on technical leadership across Data, AI/ML, GenAI, and agentic projects supporting scientific research and drug discovery.

I led the architecture and engineering of an agentic platform supporting the design of novel proteins, integrating it with scientific, data, and computational platforms used in drug discovery.

I design agentic solutions and workflows on GCP, defining reusable patterns for orchestration, tool integration, data access, and APIs. I also set architecture standards and technical guardrails for AI agents and GenAI solutions.

Before GSK, I served as lead architect for the data platform at Franklin Templeton Investment, guiding data and integration architecture. At Bertelsmann, I built distributed and data-intensive systems using Java, JEE, Spring, WebLogic, C, and Python.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Principal Data Engineer

Current

GSK plc

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Designed and prototyped distributed and AI-enabled systems using Java, Python and JVM-based backend technologies, focused on scalable services, microservices, APIs, integration and production readiness. Led hands-on development of GenAI and agentic AI capabilities using Gemini, Vertex AI, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search and tool orchestration.

Java Python JVM Microservices APIs GenAI Agentic AI Gemini Vertex AI LLM RAG Embeddings Vector Search tool orchestration CI CD Observability Distributed Systems

Current

Staff Data Engineer

Current

GSK plc

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Provide Staff+ hands-on technical leadership across Data, AI/ML, GenAI and agentic projects within GSK R&D, leading architecture, solution design, prototyping, hands-on development, integration and production delivery of complex solutions supporting scientific research and drug discovery.

Data Engineering AI ML GenAI Agentic AI GCP Azure Architecture Solution Design Prototyping Integration Production Delivery Agent orchestration RAG Vector Search MLOps Engineering standards Mentorship

Architect (Solution & Enterprise)

Franklin Templeton Investment

Jun 2012 - Mar 2022 (9 years 9 months)

Served as the lead architect for the data platform, owning target-state architecture across data, integration and Investment Operations in alignment with business capabilities and technology strategy. Led data engineering direction across the platform, guiding architecture and implementation for scalable data solutions and modernisation initiatives.

Data Architecture Enterprise Architecture Solutions Architect Snowflake Azure Databricks Spark Java JVM APIs REST Microservices Event Driven Architecture Kafka Mule Spring Framework Integration Patterns Governance

Software Engineering

Bertelsmann

Mar 2000 - May 2012 (12 years 2 months)

Built more than 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience designing scalable, data-intensive and distributed systems using Java, JEE, Spring, WebLogic, C, and Python across backend services, web applications, integration platforms and enterprise applications. Delivered solutions end-to-end across the SDLC, mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions.