Appazo Rafał Kwasek

Pragmatic software architecture for teams that build serious systems.

What I help with

01

Architecture Review & Audit

02

New System & Greenfield Design

03

Microservices, DDD & Distributed Systems

04

Technical Leadership & Mentoring

05

AI Integration & Adoption

How I work

  • Pragmatism over dogma
  • Decisions over diagrams
  • Boring where it counts
  • Leave the team stronger
  • AI as leverage, not magic

Where I've delivered

Industries

Fintech / banking / payments E-commerce / retail SaaS / B2B platforms Telecom / media / utilities

System types

Distributed systems Real-time systems Big data & analytics Standalone applications

Expertise

Languages

JavaKotlinSQL

Spring & JVM Ecosystem

Spring BootSpring CloudSpring SecuritySpring DataJPA / Hibernate

Architecture

MicroservicesEvent-DrivenDDDCQRSEvent SourcingHexagonalModular Monolith

Messaging & Data

Apache KafkaRabbitMQPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearch

Cloud-agnostic & Infrastructure

AWSGCPAzureKubernetesDockerTerraform

Practices

TDDADRsTrunk-based devContinuous DeliveryObservability

AI & LLM

LLM integration Anthropic Claude API OpenAI API Agentic systems Tool use & MCP Prompt engineering AI-assisted development