Rafal is a highly experienced senior software architect and team leader with a history of more than 15 years of academic and industrial software projects and applied research in the area of distributed systems. He has a broad knowledge in distributed systems, networking, object-oriented design and programming, Java, Java EE and Jini technologies, security, identity and access management solutions. Rafal has successfully delivered critical academic and industrial software projects and is keen to learn and expand his knowledge and skills. He integrates easily in international and multicultural project teams, demonstrates strong leadership and communication skills. For the last ten years, Rafal has worked for Sun Microsystems delivering a number of complex software projects, recently specializing on identity and access management solutions. Currently, Rafal is looking at his options working as an independent consultant or entrepreneur.

Principal, Senior Software Architect @ We design and develop custom applications for Apple iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad and connect them to your existing back end services or we build those services for you. We uniquely combine skills in iOS application development with years of industrial experience in server side development, understanding issues of scalability, availability, and security and endorse modern technologies like the Typesafe Stack which includes Scala, Play and Akka. This allows us to provide you with a well engineered end-to-end solution integrated perfectly into your existing IT landscape. From August 2010 to Present (5 years 5 months) Senior Software Architect @ From October 2005 to November 2009 (4 years 2 months) Solution Architect @ From September 2004 to October 2005 (1 year 2 months) Java Architect @ From October 1999 to September 2004 (5 years) I/T Specialist @ From April 1999 to October 1999 (7 months) Research Scientist @ From October 1997 to April 1999 (1 year 7 months)

M.Sc., Electrical Engineering @ Technische Universität Berlin From 1989 to 1995 Rafal Kowalski is skilled in: Java Enterprise Edition, Architecture, Java, Distributed Systems, Unix, SOA, Object Oriented Design, Software Development, Linux, Scalability, Web Services, Solaris, Software Engineering, REST, Agile Methodologies