About me

My name is Katarzyna Polomska. 

My friends call me Kasia. My IT history starts in my Secondary School. But I was not decided from the beginning, I thought I would be a doctor.

I was learning biology and chemistry to get the Medical Academy. But one day my mum (who was a teacher) brought me a book about programming (this was Pascal). I started to read it and write programs based on it and then... I realized this is what I wanted to do. Then I need to change my direction in 180 degrees. I was not much time to repeat all math lessons but finally I could pass the exams to one of the most famous academy of technology in Poland.

This was not easy studies, 5 hard years, including last two when I need to share my time between academy and part time job.

When I finished Computer Science and then I thought I will be developer.

But my future took different rails. I joined IBM right after my studies in 2006 and I started my professional in test department. Soon I became a leader and I found great pleasure in working with people.Then Agile was only theory (I remember one lecture on the last year of studies) and when I join IBM all project was typical waterfall projects. After a few years’ companies started to split one big bang into iterations.

However, this was several waterfalls instead of one big bang.

First steps in Agile was not easy especially in big corporation like IBM. However challenge brings innovation :)