Building a New Office in Gdańsk: How Wojtek Lichota Brought STX Next to the Tricity

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to build a whole new company office from scratch, in an unknown city?

You may think that running a new office of an already existing company is much easier. But it comes with its own set of challenges which you have to face to succeed.

Recently I’ve had the pleasure to conduct an interview with Wojciech Lichota, Head of Service Delivery in our newly-created Gdańsk office. He shared his experience and gave me some tips outlining what pitfalls to avoid when opening a new office.

Wojciech Lichota is already well known on our blog. He is the author of some of our top articles, including:

• Serverless Computing Explained - Comparing Features and Pricing to SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
• Go Go Python Rangers - Comparing Python and Golang
• The Ultimate Guide to Hiring High-Impact Software Developers, Part One and Part Two

Most of these articles are based of his knowledge about business and IT. But today I wanted to show you a different chapter of Wojtek’s story: opening our new office in Gdańsk. As Head of Service Delivery in the Gdańsk office, Wojtek is the greatest source of information in that case.

You’ll learn:

• why we’ve chosen Gdańsk as our new location,
• what obstacles Wojtek faced in starting the new office,
• best practices how to deal with the first weeks of building a new office,
• what your most important first hire will be in a new location,
• how the Gdańsk story unfolded, step by step.

Let’s get started!