Hi, I'm Wally
I'm a Product Expert working where software meets imperfect data, physical operations, and real consequences. My focus is turning technically complex capabilities into products that people can understand, trust, and use.
My experience spans AI and construction technology, fintech, telecom data products, martech, and e-commerce. Alongside delivery work, I lecture on IT Product Management and mentor product professionals.
My Journey
Today I drive AI-powered progress tracking and quality control products used on large-scale construction projects — working at the intersection of product strategy, computer vision, geospatial data, and real-world field constraints. I do this at AI Clearing, the first company globally certified to ISO 42001 for AI governance.
Across my career I have led product teams of up to 10 people, bringing together product, UX, QA and engineering. Some of it in early-stage startups where nothing was defined yet, some in large organisations with fixed processes and many stakeholders — and the job was different every time: hiring and setting up the way of working in one place, earning room to move inside an existing structure in another.
Before construction tech, I built products in fintech, telecom data and martech: loyalty platforms for financial institutions across Europe, a digital redemption product I owned end to end including its business case and pricing, real-time data monetization, and an AI assistant built on NLP and RPA.
Most of my work happens across teams rather than inside one: with engineering, design, sales, legal and customers, translating between what each of them needs and what the product can realistically do. How I work: design thinking and continuous discovery to find the right problem, prototypes before specs, business cases before roadmaps.
Alongside my product work, I lecture on IT Product Management at WSB Merito University in Gdańsk and mentor product people and students through several organisations.
Mentoring & Coaching
For over 5 years I have been mentoring and coaching: in mentoring I share what I have learned about business and about building products and services, and in coaching I help the person name the problem themselves and get to concrete next steps.
I work with product people in technical environments, with people in tech who are moving into a product role or planning their next career step, and with young people entering the job market, on both professional and personal development. Sessions run privately and through organisations such as the University of Warsaw, Fundacja Tworzymy, and Fundacja Czerwone Maki.
I am preparing for EMCC accreditation at Foundation level and I work in my sessions in line with the EMCC Global Code of Ethics.
Education & selected certifications
My academic background sits exactly where my product work does today — at the meeting point of spatial data and technology. I hold Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Geography from the University of Warsaw, which give me a genuine foundation for the geospatial and computer-vision problems I work on now. I later complemented this with postgraduate studies in Project Management at the Warsaw University of Technology.
Selected certifications: Professional Scrum Master I · Agile PM Foundation · PRINCE2 Foundation · DIMAQ Professional. Full list on LinkedIn.
Capabilities
Product
- Product strategy
- Continuous discovery
- Design thinking
- Prototyping
- Pricing & business cases
- Prioritisation
- Product analytics
- Delivery
Leadership
- Team leadership
- Hiring & onboarding
- Executive & stakeholder alignment
- Cross-team translation
AI and data
- Computer vision products
- Geospatial data
- AI governance
- Data quality
- Human-in-the-loop workflows
Hands-on building
- Prototyping (Figma, Lovable, Claude Code)
- Python
- Node.js
- n8n
- PostHog
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Beyond Work
Outside of product work, I enjoy creative and hands-on activities — from graphic design and coding to photography, sailing, and gardening.
In my free time I like designing solutions that follow a simple loop: an interest or a need → learning → an outcome and its validation → continue or drop it — basically Build-Measure-Learn, applied to weekends. These experiments usually revolve around operational technology, marketing, and sales — often at the meeting point of hardware and software.
I remain an optimist who believes technology can create meaningful, positive change when guided by strong judgment, empathy, and human-centered design.