#38 Krakow: How Strong Tech Leaders Prove Their Impact is Worth $10M+ in 2026
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## The leaders who get promoted fastest and earn the most autonomy have one thing in common: they speak money. Not story points. Not uptime. Not tech debt. Money.
That gap — between engineering language and business language — is where careers stall, budgets get cut, and entire orgs get labeled "cost centers."
At ELC Meetup #38, three engineering leaders from Central Europe close that gap — three real case studies, hard numbers.
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What we'll cover: Three realistic case studies:
Vojtech Vit [Everpure]:
- Saving $10M with FinOps. How Vojtech's team turned cloud cost into a board-level win. The decisions, the trade-offs, and the moment finance stopped asking why and started asking how to do more of it.
Michal Porzozynski [BlackLine]
- Reorganizing for the AI-SDLC era. Michal restructured his team around AI-assisted delivery and ended up with two things most leaders only get one of: visibly higher employee satisfaction, and measurable gains in speed and quality. What he changed, what broke, what worked.
Tomasz Manugiewicz
- "I learned to speak the CFO's language." Tomasz reframed engineering work in business terms (ROI, cost of delay, margin impact) and it changed how leadership saw his team, and his career. He'll share the exact language shifts and the moments they paid off.
Three concrete frameworks for proving your impact in 2026. The vocabulary to use upstairs. And a clearer answer to a question every senior engineer eventually faces: when the next budget cycle comes, can you defend your team in numbers your CFO respects?
This meetup is made possible by Everpure, BlackLine, and Loftmill Krakow.
Come with your money story. Leave with a better one.