He is the author of the book The Economy of Algorithms: Rise of the Digital Minions, published by La Trobe University Press in March 2024.

[10] From 2002 - 2006, while completing his PhD, Kowalkiewicz held the position of assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems at Poznań University of Economics and Business.

He also led the IdeaWall project (previously known as InnoBoard),[14] a remote collaboration app that helped distributed teams work with physical and virtual post-it notes, a concept still used in some internal SAP applications.

In April 2012, Kowalkiewicz moved to Singapore to help establish SAP Research's Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ) headquarters.

"[19] In 2015, Kowalkiewicz was appointed professor and PwC Chair in Digital Economy[20][1] at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

[24] In 2016, Kowalkiewicz was a member of the Opportunities for Personalised Transport Review Taskforce guiding the Queensland Government on developing new ride-sharing regulation.

[25] The newDemocracy Foundation[26] ranked the regulation, dubbed "Legalising Uber,"  as one of the leading evidence-based policy initiatives of the year following reports by Per Capita and the Institute of Public Affairs.