Łukasz Sowa

Managing Partner at Iterators. Hands-on CTO. I bring order to your tech and make things ship.

I'm Managing Partner at Iterators, the software consulting company I co-founded in 2013. I stay in the trenches — architecture reviews, coding standards, unblocking developers — while also doing hands-on CTO work for clients. Right now that's Obi, a global mobility platform.

I still write code. Not every day, but enough to know when an architecture is lying. Most of my work is taking something ambiguous — a platform that grew sideways, a team that can't ship, a stack no one fully understands — and turning it into something with a clear shape, a plan, and a delivery cadence. Clients tend to value that I'm equally comfortable in a codebase and in a boardroom.

I've been writing software professionally since 2007 — freelance, then C#/.NET, then low-level Linux kernel work, then functional programming, where I've mostly stayed. We open-source our libraries at Iterators — kebs, http4s-stir, baklava, and others. I've also built an OS from scratch in C and a concurrent-program debugging library, because sometimes you just need to know how the thing actually works.

Outside of tech: wine. WSET Level 2, building indie tools for wine education at Cork Academy, blogging about wine on Instagram. I enjoy a good party with good wine and interesting people.

If your engineering team is stuck, your architecture is drifting, or you need someone in the room who can do the work and explain it — let's talk.