About

The senior who sells is the one who delivers

Mysterious Code is a principal-led AWS practice. A named, certified architect owns and signs off every engagement, so the person who scopes your project is the one accountable for the result.

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By the numbers
2014 Founded, woman-owned
10+ yrs of AWS depth
4 AWS certifications
UK + EU clients, EU timezone
How we work

A senior architect owns your work

Most consultancies sell you a senior and then hand delivery to someone else. We do not. Our founder, Paulina Budzoń, is the named, AWS-certified architect who owns and signs off every engagement, so the person who scopes your project is the one accountable for the result. There is no account-manager layer and no offshore handoff.

We stay deliberately small and take on a few clients at a time, which is how we keep that accountability real. When a project needs extra hands, vetted specialists join under the architect’s direction, so delivery stays continuous without your work being passed around a rotating team.

Our base in Poland keeps us in your timezone: nearshore EU, not offshore.

Founder

Paulina Budzoń

Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer

Paulina is a Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer with around a decade of AWS depth, holding the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification since 2016 and the Solutions Architect Professional since 2017. She started as a PHP developer, moved through Linux and systems administration, and grew into AWS and DevOps architecture: a senior who has lived the whole stack your developers work in, automates in Python, and works alongside your team rather than from a cloud console.

She has authored two Packt video courses on cloud-native AWS, serverless and containers, and represents Mysterious Code at AWS and industry conferences.

AWS certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional AWS Certified Security Specialty AWS Certified Developer Associate
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