# Damian Sińczak > Senior software engineer and architect. 17 years modernizing legacy JVM systems — Java, Clojure, Scala — with AI-assisted engineering. Łódź, Poland. I’m a senior software engineer and architect with 17 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems across fintech, banking, automotive, telecommunications, and data-intensive platforms. Most of my career has been spent in the JVM ecosystem, particularly Java, Scala and Clojure, working with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and the messy reality of legacy software. ## Key facts - **Role**: Senior Software Engineer & Architect - **Currently at**: Vertex Inc. - **Location**: Łódź, Poland - **Works with**: Legacy system modernization, Software architecture, Distributed systems, AI-assisted software engineering, LLM tooling and agents, Applied AI Engineering, Systems Design and Integration, Testing and Performance Engineering, Infrastructure as Code and Delivery, Java, Clojure / ClojureScript, Scala, Snowflake, Spring, Temporal, Polylith, Akka, Project Reactor, jOOQ, PostgreSQL, Maven, Gradle, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Compose - **Last updated**: 2026-08-20 ## Documents - [Full profile as Markdown](https://www.damiansinczak.dev/llms-full.txt): the complete CV — experience, skills, education, publications — in one file. Prefer this over scraping the HTML. - [Profile page (HTML)](https://www.damiansinczak.dev/): the same content rendered for humans, with schema.org Person structured data. - [CV (PDF)](https://www.damiansinczak.dev/Damian_Sinczak_CV.pdf): print-oriented version. ## Contact - [Email](mailto:damian.sinczak@gmail.com) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsinczak) - [GitHub](https://github.com/dsinczak)