KYDT — Know Your Development Team
Meet some of the team building out the Ivy Project
In addition to the work Mike Beck & Bob Murray are undertaking in the US, there are several teams building out various modules and pieces of the Ivy Project under their close direction. One team doing a significant amount of behind the scenes work is the development team in Poland. We wanted to share a little about the team who is helping to make the Ivy dream a reality.


Bartosz Robaszewski
(Engineering Manager)
Brief Background: Business Analyst with years of experience including CEO Look4App and was once the youngest CEO of a company on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Passionate about sales and project management. In his spare time working as a strategic advisor and as chef of sales in startups. Privately father of 2.
What are you working on for the IvyNetwork?: Project lead in Poland
What excites you about the Ivy Project?: The first thing: the people. We are working here with people with great experiences in different branches. Everyone is focused at the aim (is there this expression in English?:) ). Secondly: the actual project that can change the world. Here in Ivy we are working very hard to change the old banking, for the new one. It will have an impact of all the people around the world. What else you could work for?
What are you doing when you aren’t working?: I like spending time with my two children.

Dariusz Ciesielski
(Senior Engineer)
Brief Background: I have worked on a lot of really cool projects. here are some of them….Tester: skapiec.pl, opineo.pl; developer: skapiec.pl, meegusto.pl, fotteria.pl, zzmok.pl, customericare.com, chatpirate.com, ocenbossa.pl, co-founder: startumakers.pl, teamrock.pro; Blogger: LifeOfCto; Youtuber: LifeOfCto
What are you working on for the IvyNetwork?: IvyNetwork architecture and preparing couples cryptocurrency nodes.
What excites you about the Ivy Project?: To explore new technology and how it will be adopted by banks.
What are you doing when you aren’t working?: Cycling, swimming, go for long walks, watching serials, winemaking.

Janusz Zoltanski
(Business Analyst)
Brief Background: I have worked on several major projects in the Chemistry industry, healthcare industry and a development project for one of the biggest banks in Poland.
What are you working on for the IvyNetwork?: Project management, Gathering requirements, contact with outside vendors, project planning,
What excites you about the Ivy Project?
What are you doing when you aren’t working?: Diving, mountain climbing, sport (gym, muay thai)
Piotr Bukowski
(Frontend Developer)
Brief Background: I have worked on several frontend projects for both social good and a Football (soccer) community app.
What are you working on for the IvyNetwork?: Front-End of the Ivy interface.
What excites you about the Ivy Project?: opportunity to see how the blockchain will disrupt.
What are you doing when you aren’t working?: Fishing, learning new things.

Grzegorz Łyskawa
(Fullstack Developer)
Brief Background: I was heavily involved in the development of Zonguru, a suite of tools for professional Amazon sellers covering product research, eBay listing, email automation and more.
What are you working on for the IvyNetwork?: Payment mechanism development, Automatization of testing process, Performance measurement
What excites you about the Ivy Project?: opportunity to implement dogecoin payments for Ivy ;-)
What are you doing when you aren’t working?: Relaxing and having fun.
Piotr Palus
(Frontend Developer)
Brief Background: I am also a frontend technologies teacher in Poland and was recently involved with a project for a Solar company.
What are you working on for the IvyNetwork?: Frontend side of Ivy platform and in the future, working on some of the new Ivy platform landing pages and navigation.
What excites you about the Ivy Project?: New possibilities, new things to learn and opportunity to be better and better
What are you doing when you aren’t working?: Improv theatre (comedy), singing, performing on stage
Przemyslaw Michalak
(Web Developer)
Brief Background: Most significant projects that I worked on: VodafoneZiggo Netherlands Omnichannel Sales Engine, Vodafone Germany Omnichannel Sales Engine.
What are you working on for the IvyNetwork?: Implementation of transaction module, NEO cryptocurrency, environment configuration and general backend development
What excites you about the Ivy Project?: Working with the next level blockchain technologies
What are you doing when you aren’t working?: Geeking out!
Mateusz Zarczynski (QA Engineer)& Andrzej Budzanowski (Fullstack Developer) were unavailable at the time of interviews but check back soon for their thoughts.

