Marian Kamenistak

Marian Kamenistak works with engineering leaders on the part of the job that has no manual: the people. Since 2019 he has done 3,611 mentoring sessions with 317 leaders from 17+ countries. Before that he sat on the other side of the table. Three years in the Bay Area as Principal Software Architect at Databricks, engineering leadership at Manta (later acquired by IBM), then VP of Engineering at Mews, where he scaled the engineering org through Series C. He left a $350k role with $75k of debt still to pay off and went independent. Most bios skip that number. He keeps it in. He founded the Engineering Leaders Community, 3,301 engineering managers, directors and CTOs across Prague, Brno, Bratislava and Kraków. A regular meetup fills a room of 120+. The Kraków chapter means Polish engineering leaders are already people he knows from the meetups. He lectures IT Leadership on the MBA programme at VŠE Prague, sits on the advisory board of Trinity Bank and advises Eurowag on product and tech.