
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Jarek (Jarosław) Hartman
Location: Warsaw, Poland
jhartman@interia.pl
LinkedIn
Strava
Core stack: Kubernetes (GKE, Tanzu), Docker, GitLab/Bitbucket CI, Terraform/Helm/Kustomize, Grafana/Prometheus, Linux
Summary
Jarek has 20+ years in telecom and 15 years in technical leadership, delivering charging/monetization platforms and cloud‑native infrastructure at scale. He combines deep telco domain knowledge with hands‑on Kubernetes, private/public cloud and DevOps delivery across multiple countries. He leads end‑to‑end delivery from architecture and automation through migration, performance testing and go‑live. He also explores modern automation and AI tooling, including agentic workflows and RAG patterns. Led delivery teams up to 15+ people and coordinated multi‑country rollouts.
Work experience
2026 – now

2022 – 2026

2010 – 2022

2006 – 2010

2004 – 2006

2001 – 2004

Professional skills
Cloud
- Very good practical skills in Container Orchestration Platforms (Kubernetes, Rancher, OC-CNE by Oracle)
- Hands‑on experience in private cloud platforms (VMware Tanzu)
- Very good practical skills in cloud Observability: Grafana & Prometheus
- Expert in Containers Technology (Docker), including applications containerization (creation of Dockerfiles, Helm charts, Kustomize deployments)
- Good practical skills in Google Cloud Platform (especially Google Kubernetes Engine, GKE)
- Expert in CI/CD and DevOps: architecture, implementation and maintenance (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Very good practical skills in Oracle public cloud (OCI)
- Experience with modern hosting platforms: Vercel and Cloudflare Pages
Telco
- Good knowledge of 5G SA/NSA (CHF and Nchf interfaces – N40 and N28)
- Very good knowledge of fixed and mobile (GSM) telecommunication networks
- Expert in Intelligent Network and VAS architecture
- Expert in Price Plans configuration (Prepaid & Postpaid, NCC & BRM)
- Expert in Intelligent Network services such as PPS, VPN, MNP, GSM-R, VCC, VSSP, (M)NP
- VAS systems – voucher management, IVR
- Expert in protocols such as Diameter (Gy, Sy), SCCP, TCAP, MAP, CAP, INAP, Sinap, Sigtran, SOAP/XML, REST
- Very good knowledge of protocols such as E-DSS1, ISUP, SIP, SMPP
- Expert in protocol traces analyze – expert in handling protocol analyzers such as K12 by Tektronix, Wireshark
- Experience in effort estimations – acting as a technical lead in Bids issued to eServGlobal, Oracle and MATRIXX
IT
- Expert in Linux-based operating systems (RHEL, Ubuntu). Very good knowledge of UNIX-based operating systems (Solaris 11)
- Very good knowledge in Networking and Network protocols
- Advanced pfSense administration
- Very good knowledge of virtualization platforms (Proxmox, qemu)
- Very good scripting practice (Bash)
- Very good understanding and programming in: C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Java.
- Go (Golang) aspiring developer
- Hands‑on experience with AI agents and RAG (agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, tool chaining, vector search)
- Good practical knowledge of n8n (open‑source, low‑code workflow automation and orchestration platform) for AI and systems integrations
- Very good knowledge in: Oracle DB and SQL
- Knowledge of desktop operating systems such as macOS
Important Projects and Customers
2024–2026
Virgin Media O2 UK (MATRIXX) - Defined the technical architecture in VMO2’s private cloud (VMware Tanzu Kubernetes), led DevOps and automation using Bitbucket and GitLab, built deployment tooling and helped establish release and change management processes.
2022–2024
Telefonica DE (MATRIXX) - Key member of the Infrastructure team responsible for deployment, migration and upgrades of MATRIXX on Google Cloud (GKE).
2016–2022
Telia Company Sweden (Oracle BRM/ECE) - Leader of the Billing Maintenance Team, providing support and guidance for Infrastructure & Cloud‑native platform deployment across affiliates.Implementation of Oracle Elastic Charging Engine in Oracle RxDOD stack. FY19 Q2 CGBU All‑Star Team (CAT) award in “Customer Satisfaction”
2014–2015
O2 Czech (Oracle NCC) - Migration of legacy prepaid services to Oracle NCC platform.
2012–2013
Slovak Telekom (Oracle NCC) - Migration of legacy prepaid services to Oracle NCC platform; acting as a technical leader.
2011–2012
Aspider (eServGlobal NCC) - Multiple engagements in the Netherlands, including NCC upgrade and an additional NCC platform in the US.
2010–2011
Telekomunikacja Polska (eServGlobal NCC) - Migration of legacy IN platform handling NTS services such as Prime Rate, Free Phone, Televoting (70X, 80X).
2008-2009
- Vodafone Ireland (Charging Max) - MVNE Charging Max platform by eServGlobal.
- Orange Poland (eServGlobal SCP) - Deployment of an SCP for Diameter‑based Convergent Billing (eServGlobal).
2004-2007
- Orange Poland (MVNE) - Deployment of MVNE platform (eServGlobal).
- XL Indonesia & Telcomsel Indonesia (IN) - Various IN implementations (eServGlobal).
- PTC Era Poland (VoMS) - Migration of eServ Voucher Management System (VoMS).
- Ministry of Railway, China (GSM‑R) - GSM‑R IN platform (Siemens).
- UMC Ukraine (@vantage IN) - Deployment of @vantage IN platform (Siemens).
- PTC Era Poland (@vantage IN) - Deployment of @vantage IN platforms; these run the Tak‑Tak and Heyah prepaid brands.
Education
2005
ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing - Professional certification in software testing.
1997–2002
Wroclaw University of Technology - M.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication, specialization in Fixed Telecommunication (overall grade: Very Good).
1993–1997
Technical School of Electronics (Jastrzębie Zdroj) - Technical education in electronics.
Certifications & Trainings
- MATRIXX Certified Administrator
- MATRIXX Certified Pricing
- Selected trainings: AI and Machine Learning with Go, Concurrency in Go, Svelte & SvelteKit, Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Other
- Driving license
- Nonsmoker
- Getting along with others, capability to work in a multicultural, international company
- Strong self-motivation for learning of new technologies and solutions
- Very good communication skills proven during many on-site installations
- Willingness to travel much, ability to work well under pressure
- Polish (mother tongue), English (fluent), Russian (basic).
- Hobbies: road cycling & workouts
- Open source projects (https://github.com/jaroslawhartman)