From transforming a department to transforming the business.
Sixteen years in engineering, the last decade spent building the thing rather than describing it — an infrastructure organization, an AI practice, and an operating model that sells outcomes instead of hours.
I’m Roman Hvashchevsky — an engineering leader based in Kraków, with 16+ years in engineering and engineering leadership.
My path runs through all three practices. I built and lead a large infrastructure organization; I’m embedding AI into how that engineering actually works; and what started as transforming one department into a Center of Excellence grew into a model for transforming the business itself — from selling people to selling outcomes. I don’t just theorize about this — I design it, staff it, and stand it up at real scale.
That work is unglamorous in the way that matters. Deciding which roles an organization actually needs. Writing the offering that a client can buy. Standing in front of a leadership team and saying a plan won’t survive contact with delivery. The interesting problems are rarely technical ones — they are about what an engineering organization is accountable for, and whether its incentives point at the outcome or at the invoice.
I’m still a builder. I co-founded Pride Applications, a product development studio that builds and ships products across mobile and web — from consumer apps to developer tools and analytics — because the best way to know what works is to keep shipping. I also co-founded SmartGridence Consulting, which brings strategy, people, finance, and AI together into one operating system for technology companies.
If you’re trying to make something real inside your organization — not on a slide, in production — that’s the problem I like.
Tell me what you’re trying to make real.
A short note is enough. If it’s a fit, we’ll set up a conversation and take it from there.
Direct: r.hvashchevsky@gmail.com · LinkedIn