Pawel Dabrowski

Senior Data Engineer, Amazon - Spark · Kafka · Airflow

Amazon

Prague, Czechia · CET (UTC+1)

9+ years experience

RWTH Aachen

English, Czech

Co-founder

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Overview

9 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Amazon, where I work on the data platform team. Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 12 a week to 3. Wrote the Python service that now handles 8 million requests a day.

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People who want to build this with me
Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Questions about demand forecasting
Second opinions on Snowflake decisions

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Agency or outsourcing pitches

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills

SparkPythonSnowflakeSQLIcebergAirflowKafka

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for micro-pensions for farmer cooperatives

The idea: Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for micro-pensions for farmer cooperatives
Stage: Idea
I bring: 7 years in demand forecasting
Looking for: Product-minded engineer
Commitment: Full-time now
Location: Prague or remote

I bring 9 years of data pipelines (currently Amazon). Ideally you've led a design team. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Prague, Czechiakafkasparksnowflake

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Experience

Senior Data Engineer
Nov 2022 - Present
Amazon · 3 yr 11 mo · Contract · Prague, Czechia
- Replaced 105 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Built the forecasting models now used in 11 product decisions a quarter.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Engineer
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
Société Générale · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
- Cut forecast error from 28% to 8% across 2797 SKUs.
- Replaced 96 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
Data Engineer
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Nokia · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Prague, Czechia
- Replaced 112 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from forecasting

2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling demand forecasting.

Side project: a habit tracker

2024

Built with Snowflake and Kafka. 1233 people used it last year.

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Education

RWTH Aachen
MSc, Information Technology
2018 - 2020
University of Amsterdam
BSc, Information Technology
2014 - 2017

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