Radosław Żak-Brodalko

#NoBS IT Consulting.

For leaders tired of solutions that serve ego over execution.

I align with your specific reality—your systems, your pressures, your goals. I do not align with:

  • Pseudo-strategy built for stakeholder approval, not operational results.
  • Budget-driven dogma that ignores technical debt or reality.
  • Architectese elaborations that obscure rather than clarify.
  • Business goals that are, in my professional judgment, architecturally or logically unattainable as stated.

My value is clear judgment,
direct communication,
and solutions that work on Monday morning.

My Approach: Experience Forged in Reality

With over 20 years supporting IT transformations in finance, insurance, and government, I've seen what works—and what doesn't. This experience is the foundation of my #NoBS philosophy.

I've learned that lasting success doesn't come from the most impressive jargon or the strategy document that pleases every stakeholder. It comes from clear plans, honest assessments, and solutions built for the real-world constraints of technology, teams, and timelines.

Whether designing a Pan-European consumer finance platform, application integration services, high-performance scalable document generation system or implementing a critical DORA solution, my method is consistent: combine deep technical expertise with direct communication to cut through complexity and deliver the executable core.

Location

Lublin, Poland

Experience

20+ Years in Enterprise IT

Professional Experience

2020 - Present

Enterprise Solutions Consultant, Lead Enterprise Architect

Responsible for leading enterprise architecture initiatives and driving holistic IT transformation programs for government and commercial organizations. Designs and implements enterprise solutions, mentors teams, and facilitates organizational change.

  • Designed and implemented highly scalable document mass-generation solution for Warta Insurance Group
  • Led analysis, design, and implementation of an event-collection and analytics platform for Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
  • Led design and implementation of analytical software for operational risk analysis related to DORA implementation for Warta Insurance Group
  • Mentored organizational changes in the IT Department at Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
  • Managed solution architecture in the EAI field for Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
  • Consulted on centralized logging platform implementation based on Elastic Stack for PKO Bank Polski
2013 - 2020

Information Technology Solutions Architect

Worked for several companies as an IT solutions architect and consultant. Focused on solutions for operational intelligence, enterprise applications, and modern technologies.

  • Deployed Splunk Enterprise for mBank
  • Developed SIEM system based on Splunk for Warsaw Stock Exchange
  • Implemented Splunk-based Fraud Detection System for Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
  • Authored Splunk Enterprise course with hundreds of trained students
2008 - 2013KBC Consumer Finance (ŻAGIEL SA)

Chief ICT Architect

Responsible for technology research, system design, and IT architecture management at the KBC Consumer Finance Poland and Romania corporate branch levels.

  • Architected Pan-European Consumer Finance Platform
  • Designed and applied SOA patterns and canonical data models
  • Designed Enterprise Service Bus with 100+ distributed services
  • Led technology evaluation and proof-of-concept projects
  • Implemented IT architecture governance processes
2005 - 2008KBC Consumer Finance (ŻAGIEL SA)

Senior Systems and Network Administrator (Team Leader)

Designed and managed IT infrastructure, including servers, enterprise storage, and virtual machines.

  • Designed infrastructure for KBC Consumer Finance Romania
  • Configured high-availability services
  • Designed enterprise storage infrastructure
  • Optimized Java Enterprise Edition environments

What You Actually Get

Theoretical frameworks gather dust. Buzzword-compliant strategies fail on Monday morning. Here's what I deliver instead:

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Reality-Based Architecture & Strategy

I replace pseudo-strategy built for stakeholder approval with an executable technical roadmap. You get a plan for systems that work in production, supported by clear decisions everyone understands.

  • Executable technical roadmaps
  • Clear decisions, no jargon
  • Production-ready plans
📊

Analytics That Answer Real Questions

Forget data graveyards and dashboard theater. You get decision-ready platforms built to provide specific, operational insights that meet attainable business goals.

  • Decision-ready platforms
  • Operational insights
  • Attainable business goals
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Full-Stack Systems Engineered for Reality

From infrastructure to CI/CD, I architect for resilience and honest constraints. The deliverable is a production-ready system that acknowledges technical debt and timeline reality, not a fantasy built on budget-driven dogma.

  • Resilient architecture
  • Honest constraints
  • Production-ready delivery
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Security & Compliance Built-In

You get architectures where security (SIEM, IAM) and regulation (DORA) are foundational requirements. This means fewer costly reworks and audits that pass—not just plans that look good on paper.

  • Security by design
  • DORA compliance
  • Audit-ready architectures
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Change Management That Actually Changes Things

Beyond coaching, I drive practical knowledge transfer and process adoption. The result is a team that owns and evolves the new system, ensuring the transformation lasts.

  • Practical knowledge transfer
  • Process adoption
  • Lasting transformation
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From Vision to Live Product

I bridge the final, most critical gap: turning strategy into a shipped product. By building complete enterprise applications end-to-end—from architecture and code to branding and marketing—using modern AI-assisted development, I validate that designs are not just sound on paper, but executable and viable in the market.

  • End-to-end delivery
  • AI-assisted development
  • Launch-ready systems

Technical Foundation

Deep expertise across the full technology stack—from architecture frameworks to infrastructure platforms

Enterprise:Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, SOA, Microservices
Analytics:Observability, DWH/ETL, SQL, ML
Infrastructure:Operating Systems, Virtualization, CI/CD, HA, HPC
Security:SIEM, IAM, Compliance
AI & Product:LLM Integration, AI-Assisted Dev, Full-Stack Delivery

Let's Connect

Interested in collaboration or have a project in mind? I'd love to hear from you.