
Jan Iwaszkiewicz
Verified Expert in Engineering
Systems Architect and Developer
Lausanne, Switzerland
Toptal member since March 25, 2025
Jan is a seasoned data, cloud, and systems architect with expertise in energy trading data architecture. He worked on distributed computing optimization at CERN and has experience as a database integrator. Passionate about solving complex data challenges at the intersection of IT and business, Jan has 10+ years in software engineering. He specializes in enterprise data integration, scalable architectures, distributed systems, and predictive analytics across energy, trading, banking, and R&D.
Portfolio
Experience
- Python - 8 years
- Data Governance - 8 years
- Data Architecture - 7 years
- Knowledge Management - 7 years
- SQL - 6 years
- Business Analysis - 5 years
- AWS IoT - 5 years
- Time Series Data - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, SQL, AWS IoT, Python, Open Source, Spark, C++, Time Series Data, Neo4j, AWS IAM
The most amazing...
...solution I've developed is an adaptive scheduling algorithm I invented after careful statistical analysis at CERN, outperforming previous solutions by 30%.
Work Experience
Founder and Consultant
Scaleia
- Designed and developed a data-taking architecture for solar installations on AWS, using MQTT, Python, and RDS.
- Created a proof of concept project coordination SaaS using knowledge graphs in Neo4j.
- Parallelized ML workloads on Hadoop and optimized them for a news analytics startup.
Senior Systems Architect
Antaes
- Implemented an invoice dematerialization system for a cantonal administration, ensuring seamless integration and enhanced efficiency.
- Designed and documented the system architecture for the project, ensuring clear structure and functionality.
- Engineered and developed ETL data pipelines utilizing Control-M, optimizing data flow and processing efficiency.
Solution Architect
Credit Suisse
- Migrated a landing zone NAS for a huge data lake with numerous data feeds.
- Analyzed and proposed a metadata management framework for an analytics data lake.
- Developed a data architecture for an internal application with complex data flows.
Data Architect
Romande Energie
- Spearheaded the complex migration of the infrastructure database, ensuring a seamless transition and minimal disruption.
- Developed interfaces between technical databases, including GIS, SCADA, and SAP, to ensure seamless data integration and communication.
- Analyzed and prepared a new system architecture for the energy trading team, optimizing performance and scalability.
Software Engineer
Cern
- Integrated Solr/Lucene search into INSPIRE, one of the largest scientific archives (inspirehep.net), enhancing search functionality and performance.
- Co-developed pioneering, distributed, interactive data analytics software for physics data using MapReduce as part of the Parallel ROOT Facility (PROOF) project within the ROOT framework (root.cern.ch).
- Devised adaptive scheduling strategies that significantly enhanced resource utilization in distributed computing environments.
Experience
Market Data Collection and Processing
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of Warsaw - Warsaw, Poland
Skills
Libraries/APIs
PySpark
Tools
Jira, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS IAM, GIS, Git, MQTT, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
Languages
SQL, Python, UML, TypeScript, C++, JavaScript
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, AWS IoT, Oracle, Linux, Amazon EC2, Palantir Foundry
Storage
Data Pipelines, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Database Modeling, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, MapReduce
Frameworks
Spark, TOGAF
Other
Data Governance, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, API Integration, Time Series Data, Information Architecture (IA), Business Analysis, Knowledge Management, Architecture, APIs, Trading, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Single Sign-on (SSO), Open Source, Software Development, Sparx Enterprise Architecture, BPM, Project Coordination, SAP FI, TimescaleDB, ETRM, Document Management Systems (DMS), Data Feeds, Scraping, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ontologies, Metadata
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