About Rafał Kondratowicz

Hi there 👋

I'm a lead software engineer at Kainos , based in Gdańsk. I spend most of my time building software, teaching others how to build it better, and figuring out where AI fits into all of that without making us worse engineers.

I've been building software professionally for over a decade, mostly in the Java ecosystem, though these days I reach for whatever language solves the problem best. I've worked across the stack — from frontend applications to backend services — and learned that the hardest problems are rarely technical; they're about communication, clarity, and knowing what to build in the first place.