Management Team
Our team members have a unique track record in creating advanced solutions for customers world-wide and in conducting international R&D projects. This experience has a considerable impact on the quality of our work.
Tomasz Lukaszewicz
Co-Founder and CEO
Tomasz Lukaszewicz is responsible for the strategic direction of the business and for various aspects of management, including key account management and project management. He is also involved in analysis, design and software development. Tomasz's areas of expertise include Natural Language Processing, genetic algorithms and database programming.
Tomasz has many years of Project Management and Software Engineering experience in developing commercial software. From 2001 to 2004, before co-founding RD Projekt, he worked in NuTech Solutions, an American high tech company, where he developed Information Retrieval and Data Mining systems for large American and Polish clients. Earlier, from 1999 to 2001, he was Business Intelligence Systems Consultant in Arthur Andersen, one of the biggest professional services firms at that time, where he worked for such customers as Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. and PGNiG S.A.
Tomasz holds a Master's Degree with Distinction in Computer Science from Warsaw University (1999).
Lukasz Sznuk
Co-Founder and CEO
Lukasz Sznuk is responsible for the strategic direction of the business and for managing all aspects of technology, including managing the company's technology strategy, technical project management and recruitment of engineering staff. He is also involved in analysis, design and software engineering. Lukasz is particularly skilled in low-level, parallel and network programming and in advanced C++.
Lukasz has been working in the software business for more than 15 years. Highlights from his previous work include Web Information Retrieval software for PR firms and custom database applications for Polskie Radio S.A. and Era GSM. Further, he designed and implemented an access control system for Linux-powered thin clients based on Smart Cards, an international project in 1999-2000, while working for NcVirtual.
Lukasz is currently working towards a PhD in the field of combinatorial algorithms at the University of Warsaw in the Computer Science Department. It is there that he also teaches both the design and programming of operating systems like Windows and Linux, as well as network programming.
His publications include Sentiment Classification of Internet Opinions on Products (in Polish; co-authored by Tomasz Lukaszewicz), for the: Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Expert Systems, Wroclaw University of Technology, 2003.
Lukasz holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Warsaw (1999).
Witold Lukaszewicz, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist
Witold Lukaszewicz is responsible for inventing state-of-the-art solutions to complex scientific problems that arise in the area of Decision Support Systems. He brings to RD Projekt profound knowledge of artificial intelligence and experience in leading large research projects.
Witold also works as Professor at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn and as Dean at the University of Economics and Computer Science in Olsztyn (from 2004 to 2007 he worked as Rector there). Previously, for more than 30 years, he held academic positions at the University of Warsaw and at Linkoping University in Sweden and led numerous research projects concerning artificial intelligence, sponsored by institutions like the European Commission, Wallenberg Foundation and the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research. Upon invitation, he has also given many lectures at institutions of higher learning across Europe, including Exeter University, Bath University, Imperial College and Barcelona University, and co-organized several international conferences and workshops.
He has authored more than 40 publications on the subjects of knowledge representation, automated reasoning, expert systems, computational linguistics and multi-agent systems.
Witold holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Warsaw.