Team

The People Behind Cadenza

Tomasz Pado

Tomasz Pado

Tomasz has kept large systems running for three decades, automating the infrastructure behind retailers like Gap, Levi Strauss & Co. and Sephora.

  • Moved 1,000 international Gap stores, each with up to 25 registers, onto automated configuration management
  • Built tools that let Gap manage thousands of servers automatically, cutting deployments from hours to seconds
  • Designed a development toolchain for Sephora that deploys automatically to fresh environments after every successful build
  • Introduced Ansible at Levi Strauss & Co., where it replaced Chef, and designed a staged rollout for system patches
Ben Towner

Ben Towner

Ben pairs nearly two decades on the ground in container terminals with the engineering to take complex systems live.

  • Managed five terminal software migrations in the United States, Argentina and the Netherlands, with budgets from $600k to $3M
  • Led the data migration of 15 container terminals from Oracle to SQL Server
  • Built an observability team and platform on the Elastic Stack, laying the foundation for a global competency center
  • Led the outgate OCR go-live and the Navis N4 implementation
Piotr Gajos

Piotr Gajos

Piotr makes complex products feel simple and friendly, a craft that won him an Apple Design Award and a decade of design leadership in Silicon Valley.

  • Won the Apple Design Award in 2006
  • Spent a decade in the San Francisco Bay Area leading design teams and digital transformation for startups and corporations
  • Led brand expression and design at Persistent Systems, and innovation at Sourcebits
  • Built a design team and practice for healthcare product work at Visuality in Warsaw
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