19/02/2026
What happens when real production scenarios make their way into the classroom? 🤔
The summer semester is about to begin for students 🧑🎓 , so it’s a perfect moment to look back at what our colleagues delivered in the previous one.
During the winter semester, Wojciech Czyżycki and Maciej Kozłowski led the “Fundamentals of Cloud Solutions” course at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszki for 56 students. The program combined 30 hours of lectures with 30 hours of hands-on labs.
💬 “From day one, our goal was simple: show cloud as it’s used in real engineering teams — practical implementations, real trade-offs, and solutions designed to be not only architecturally sound, but also maintainable in production,” Wojciech said.
💬 “We covered AWS and Azure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and designing cloud solutions that scale in real systems. The lab sessions were built around scenarios inspired by commercial projects, and our day-to-day experience as DevOps and Cloud Engineers at Grand Parade directly shaped both the format and the topic selection,” Maciej added.
We’re proud to support this kind of university–industry collaboration — and we’re already looking forward to meeting the next group of students in the upcoming edition of the course.