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Michal Sitarz

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Staff engineer building Ataraxia, a test-driven backtest orchestrator, with deep experience in data systems and backend architecture.

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Ataraxia is the backtest orchestrator I designed and built as an independent project, using TDD. Its dependency graph supports multiple sources, a single sink, topological sorting, and cycle detection.

At Sci-Brain, I built a Python asyncio pipeline processing 180M publications across MongoDB and Elasticsearch. I also led R&D on author disambiguation and mentored engineers on tracing data flows and operational resilience.

At Lounjee, I refactored synchronous WebSocket processing into async queues during a latency incident, reducing p95 latency from about two seconds to about 100 milliseconds. I also designed the Node.js backend and its migration to AWS ECS on Fargate.

As Co-founder & CTO at Autea Software House, I owned technology strategy and delivery across client engagements, from scoping and architecture to hands-on implementation. I also designed and independently shipped an R&D prototype combining Bluetooth beacon tracking with ML-based clustering.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Software Engineering

Independent

Jan 2026 - Present (9 months)

Designed and built Ataraxia, a backtest orchestrator, fully test-driven (TDD); staged roadmap toward concurrent execution and AWS-native deployment.

IN

Career Break / Discretionary Trading Research

Independent

Jan 2023 - Jan 2026 (3 years)

Conducted self-directed technical and market analysis using TradingView; developed and refined discretionary trading strategies using engineering principles of measured iterative improvement.

SC

Head of Data Science

Sci-Brain

Jan 2019 - Jan 2023 (4 years)

Built a Python asyncio pipeline for large-scale data systems and retrieval, processing 180M publications across ~60M MongoDB and ~100M Elasticsearch documents. Led R&D on academic-publication author disambiguation using clustering algorithms.

LO

Lead Software Engineer

Lounjee

Jan 2019 - Jan 2022 (3 years)

Diagnosed and resolved a live WebSocket latency incident under real-world load, dropping p95 latency from ~2s to ~100ms. Designed the Node.js backend as a domain-separated modular monolith and led infrastructure migration to AWS ECS on Fargate.

AH

Co-founder & CTO

Autea Software House

Jan 2014 - Jan 2019 (5 years)

Owned technology strategy and delivery across all client engagements, including pre-sales scoping, estimation, architecture, and hands-on implementation. Built the engineering team using a low-risk hiring model and delivered every client project successfully through company wind-down.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Silesian University of Technology logoST

Silesian University of Technology

Master of Science, Computer Science

Master of Science in Computer Science from Silesian University of Technology, completed in 2018.

Silesian University of Technology logoST

Silesian University of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Silesian University of Technology, completed in 2016.

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