Who is Adam Korga?

First things first: The Name

Let's get this out of the way: Adam Korga is a pen name.

Why? Initially, I wanted to hide from the potential revenge of HR departments (if you've read my IT Dictionary, you know exactly why). But honestly? Polish surnames are... specific. I didn't want to sentence librarians and readers around the world to linguistic gymnastics just to ask for my book. "Korga" is short, punchy, and won't twist your tongue.

Who am I? (The career path)

For nearly 20 years, I've been doing things in IT that I'm mostly not ashamed of. I've worn many hats: developer, DevOps engineer, architect, consultant, and even—forgive me—Scrum Master.

I've worked everywhere, from freelance gigs and small software houses to multi-billion dollar corporations. I've seen a lot. Probably too much.

Over time, I realized a simple, painful truth: the problem in IT is rarely the computers. It's the people and the communication. I spent years acting as a translator, turning "Managerish" into "Engineerish" and back again... and then spending my evenings trying to translate it all into "Human."

Why I started writing?

It actually started with a girl.

She worked in a Legal department and had to deal with IT folks daily. To help her survive, I started writing a small glossary of terms, explaining what the hell we were actually talking about.

The relationship didn't survive, but the glossary did. Once I started, I couldn't stop. That small collection of translations grew to a dozen pages, then fifty, and eventually became a full book. The writing muscle woke up, and it hasn't stopped spitting out content since.

The Goal: Simplifying Reality

My goal isn't just to rant (though I admit, it's therapeutic). It started with saying the quiet parts out loud. Now, it's about simplifying reality.

I write to show that underneath the jargon, the frameworks, and the shiny new tech, it's all the same mess. It's like literature: the scenery changes, the costumes change, but Romeo and Juliet still end up dead in the exact same way.