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Mateusz Soltysik

Mateusz Soltysik

Software Engineer and Technical Lead, decade-plus building data-intensive systems in #Python, Go, and TypeScript. Certified AWS Professional and Google Cloud Architect.

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Project Anatomy: Dates Are Outputs, Never Inputs

·12 mins
Most delivery dates fail before they’re spoken. They fail because someone treats a date as an input to planning, when it should be the output of one. The six-question test to tell the difference.

Insurance 101 for Engineers

·11 mins
A primer on how insurance actually works - pooled risk, adjusters, reinsurance, and the parametric shift where satellites replaced humans. Written for engineers who touch financial systems or are just domain-curious.

Project Anatomy: Wishful Thinking Is Not a Strategy

·11 mins
Most projects don’t fail on execution. They fail because there was never a strategy to execute - just a wish wearing strategy’s clothes. Outcome = Strategy × Tactics, and zero times anything is zero.