Hi, I'm Andrej Kincel
Staff+ Engineering Lead of Global eCommerce Teams
Tech and people lead of globally distributed engineering teams in the eCommerce domain, building highly available, fault-tolerant systems that process millions of transactions with exceptional throughput. Expert in RESTful microservices with TypeScript/Node.js and C#/.NET core, AWS cloud services, and serverless architecture.
Where I've Worked
Engineering Lead for global platform teams building and scaling eCommerce Website and Wholesale Pricing systems. I own technical direction, architecture, and engineering quality across distributed teams working in a modern, API-first, serverless environment on AWS.
- Leading architectural design and modernization efforts, with an emphasis on event-driven, scalable, and maintainable systems aligned across multiple product teams
- Collaborating closely with Product, UX, and Engineering Management to turn complex business needs into robust, performant technical solutions
- Driving engineering best practices, including code quality, CI/CD workflows, performance tuning, and AWS cost optimization
- Mentoring engineers and supporting their growth through technical coaching, feedback, and structured promotion processes
- Guiding system evolution through thoughtful adoption of new technologies and proactive handling of non-functional requirements like scalability, reliability, and availability
I led cross-functional software engineering teams in the fulfillment, pricing, and invoicing areas.
- Acted as a people manager, coached team members, led performance reviews, 360 feedback sessions, hiring, technical and behavioral interviews
- Collaborated with product managers, UX researchers, and team leads in fully-remote settings across time-zones
- Prepared and held technical demos, presentations to customers, and knowledge sharing sessions
- Designed and implemented microservices utilizing serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, Fargate) and asynchronous event-processing (AWS SNS, SQS, Step Functions)
- Optimized the response time, availability, and security of RESTful HTTP APIs (AWS CloudFront, ApiGateway, WAF)
- Used SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, ElasticSearch) databases and built transformation pipelines for data products (DBT, Snowflake)
- Built frontend web applications using Vue.js and React.js
- Managed deployment stories (GitLab, GitHub actions) and wrote Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation)
I worked on a payment processing product (credit card, invoice, cash on delivery). I was focused on the steering part deciding when a payment should be executed, keeping simple accounting, calculating payment balances, and performing reconciliation with payment gateways.
- Built scalable microservices in Java and Spring boot deployed to AWS ECS backed by EC2
- Run and monitored self-managed Cassandra cluster
Skills & Technologies
Languages
English (Full Professional)
Slovak (Native or Bilingual)
Czech (Full Professional)
German (Limited Working)
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Systems and Networking
Certifications
- edX Honor Code Certificate for Introduction to Linux
Publications
- MBIST for LEON3 processor core cache
- Case study: BISR for a Processor Multiplier
Get In Touch
I'm always interested in connecting with fellow professionals to discuss software engineering leadership, cloud architecture, and innovations in the tech industry.