CodiLime’s CEO becomes the laureate of prestigious award by Polish Society of Computer Science

Tomasz Kułakowski, the CEO and co-founder of CodiLime, Polish software engineering services company, became a laureate of the 22nd edition of the INFO-STAR Awards in the category ‘Business Development Achievements’.

On Thursday, May 15, 2014, at the Great Gala of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, the Polish Society of Computer Science handed out the INFO-STAR 2013 awards. It is a prestigious distinction for outstanding characters of the ICT environment, which has been awarded annually since 1992. Tomasz Kułakowski – the CEO and co-founder of CodiLime – became a laureate in the category ‘Business Development Achievements’.

The activity of Tomasz Kułakowski and CodiLime has been recognized by the members of the Contest Chapter owing to rapid growth, utilizing newest technologies available and ambitious projects for Silicon Valley based international clients. The CEO of CodiLime found himself in the elevated company of such ICT people as Adam Goral, Ryszard Krauze, Roman Szwed, Tomasz Czechowicz, Lukasz Foltyn or Janusz Filipiak.

Piotr Niedźwiedź, Deputy President of the Management Board and CTO at CodiLime, said today: “Apart from developing CodiLime, Tomasz has a significant contribution to the promotion of Poland and Polish programmers as the ones that are trustworthy and have the extensive technical knowledge. The cooperation with international clients and providing them with software solutions are not only a profit for CodiLime as a company. Above all it proves that programmers from Europe, particularly from Poland, are in no way inferior to the developers working in Silicon Valley. I believe that with further activity of Tomasz, CodiLime and Polish school of computer science will become a well known and recognized brand in the international IT environment”.

CodiLime is an IT company founded by extremely talented algorithm developers, graduates of Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Warsaw. Among the founders there is the world champion in individual programming as well as the winners of gold medal at the ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) – Battle of The Brains, a global competition organized by the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery and IBM. The majority of engineers employed by CodiLime gained their professional experience in international headquarters of such companies as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, NVIDIA and UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland). CodiLime designs and develops state-of-the-art IT systems within such areas as Fraud & Security Intelligence, Risk Management, Business Analytics & Intelligence, Customer Intelligence, Mobile Payments, E-commerce as well as Web & Mobile Applications. The company also carries out several R&D projects for large international corporate Clients investing in high-tech solutions involving BIG DATA, Security, Cloud Computing, OpenStack, OpenContrail, OpenFlow, Open DayLight and SDN (Software Defined Networking).