Damian Nowak
CEO, Software Engineer, Co-Founder at Virtkick, Inc.
Floresville, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamian Nowak is a CEO and hands-on software engineer with 12 years’ experience building and operating cloud and virtualization platforms; he co-founded Virtkick (a Techstars company), led product and operations, and helped raise $1M in 2015. He combines Ruby/Rails and libvirt development with deep DevOps and SRE expertise—migrating large infrastructures to Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and GitLab CI while leading teams at DreamHost and Tenfold. An active open-source contributor and Arch Linux hacker, he has worked on projects like Archipel (an XMPP-based orchestrator) and is known for pragmatic iterations, including intentional rollbacks to keep core systems stable. Based in Floresville, Texas and educated at Gdańsk University of Technology, he bridges board-level strategy with hands-on debugging and infrastructure automation.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Informatics, B, Bachelor of Science, Informatics, B at Gdańsk University of TechnologyHigh school, High school at Collegium Marianum
English, German, Polish
Github Skills (8)
libvirt10
xmpp10
python10
virtualization10
api9
api-doc9
database7
databases7
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
ArchipelProject/Archipel
Jul 2013 - Jan 2014
XMPP Based Orchestrator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily focused on enhancing the Archipel project's core functionality, addressing specific issues related to ISO file handling and performance. Their contributions include modifying storage management to accommodate a broader range of file types, optimizing permission template application, and refactoring code related to virtual machine allocation. The user also introduced and then reverted a feature concerning an optional UUID parameter within the hypervisor control system, indicating a focus on iterating the project's core features.
orchestratorxmppiot
ihtimir/virtkick-webapp
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:117 commits in 2 months
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