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Kamil
Wozniak.

// role: CTO

Freelance technologist with 18+ years of experience shaping digital products — from cloud architecture and engineering leadership to AI-powered workflows. I help ambitious teams build things that last.

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18+ Years Exp.
2016 Freelance
iSAQB Certified
bash — kamil@smarterco.de
❯ whoami kamil.wozniak // CTO · Solutions Architect   ❯ kubectl get expertise NAME                  STATUS cloud-architecture    READY ✓ engineering-leadership READY ✓ ai-tooling            READY ✓

About

Building systems
that survive growth.

I've been in the industry since the early 2000s — long enough to have seen every hype cycle, and to know what actually lasts. Freelancing since 2016 under smarterco.de, I work with companies that need a senior technical voice in the room.

My sweet spot is the intersection of cloud infrastructure, software architecture, and engineering leadership. I've worked across the US and Europe, bringing a global perspective to complex technical challenges.

I hold the iSAQB CPSA-FL certification and speak the language of both the architecture whiteboard and the terminal prompt. Lately I've been going deep on agentic AI workflows and spec-driven development — helping teams move faster with less waste.

iSAQB Certified Architect

CPSA-FL — Certified Professional for Software Architecture (Foundation Level)

Freelance since 2016

Independent consultant under smarterco.de, serving clients across Germany and beyond

International experience

Worked in the USA and across Europe — comfortable in global, distributed, async teams

AI & Agentic tooling

Early adopter of GitHub Copilot, agentic coding workflows, and SPEC-driven development

What I Do

Four disciplines.
One trusted partner.

From greenfield architecture to scaling legacy systems — breadth and depth where it matters.

01

Software Architecture

Designing systems that scale — from event-driven microservices to modular monoliths. Applying proven patterns where they fit, and avoiding them where they don't.

Hexagonal DDD Event-Driven Microservices Modulithic iSAQB

02

Cloud & DevOps

Building the infrastructure your product runs on — automated, observable, and boring in all the right ways. AWS-native, Terraform-first, CI/CD always.

AWS Terraform Docker GitHub Actions CI/CD Linux

03

Engineering Leadership

Fractional CTO, tech lead, or trusted advisor — I help growing teams make better technical decisions and build cultures of quality.

Fractional CTO Tech Lead Scrum Team Building Tech Strategy

04

AI & Modern Tooling

Integrating AI meaningfully into developer workflows — not as hype, but as leverage. Agentic pipelines, spec-driven development, and Copilot at scale.

GitHub Copilot Agentic Workflows OpenCode SPEC-Driven Dev LLM Integration

Tech Stack

Tools of
the trade.

A curated selection — not a buzzword checklist.

Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS Terraform Docker Nginx Linux / Debian GitHub Actions Self-hosted Runners Artifact Management CI/CD Distributed Tracing Metrics & Alerting Log Aggregation
Architecture & Backend
Java / Java EE Kotlin Spring Boot Spring Data Spring Security Hibernate / JPA REST APIs Apache Kafka Kafka DLT Confluent Platform Maven OSGi
Databases
PostgreSQL MongoDB Atlas SQL
Patterns & Methods
Hexagonal Architecture DDD Event-Driven Architecture Microservices Modulithic TDD Scrum JUnit Mockito
AI & Developer Tooling
GitHub Copilot Agentic Workflows OpenCode SPEC-Driven Development Spec-Kit LLM Integration

Contact

Let's build
something great.

Whether you need architecture guidance, a hands-on engineering partner, or an experienced tech lead for your next chapter — I'd love to hear about it.

in linkedin.com/in/kamil-wozniak → gh github.com/kamwo → ✕ xing.com/profile/Kamil_Wozniak → 𝕏 @kam_wo → @ contact@smarterco.de →

Primary CTA

Ready to talk architecture?

Send me a message on LinkedIn — I typically respond within 24 hours.

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