Alan Kutniewski
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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RockstarAlan Kutniewski is a Senior Software Engineer based in Warsaw with six years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, back-end systems. At Google he contributes to high-impact open source projects like Cilium and the GCE ingress controller, focusing on eBPF-based networking, security, and EndpointSlice support for Kubernetes. His work shows a strong practical grasp of distributed systems: optimizing memory usage, refactoring controllers for full reconciliation, handling update conflicts, and migrating identity garbage collection. Alan pairs pragmatic engineering with deep platform knowledge, making reliability and compatibility improvements that benefit large-scale Kubernetes deployments. A detail often overlooked: his commits reflect both bug fixes and architectural changes, indicating he moves fluidly between short-term stabilization and longer-term code health.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
ebpf10
ingress10
kubernetes-networking10
networking10
gcp10
security10
cilium10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
container9
apidoc9
cni9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/ingress-gce
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
Ingress controller for Google Cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 17 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Ingress controller for Google Cloud. Their work involved updating instructions for local testing, bumping Kubernetes dependencies to a specific version, and adding support for EndpointSlices, an alternative to Endpoints. The commits reveal efforts to adapt the Ingress controller to the use of EndpointSlices, requiring changes in the code to handle different data structures and API calls. These modifications suggest a focus on improving the controller's compatibility and efficiency.
google-cloudingress-controllerkubernetesloadbalanceringress
cilium/cilium
Jun 2022 - Feb 2024
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:122 reviews, 13 PRs, 214 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alan Kutniewski's commits primarily focused on improving the Cilium networking and security platform. He addressed bugs related to CiliumEndpointSlice handling, optimizing memory usage for service updates, and enhancing identity allocation. Furthermore, he refactored the CES Controller and implemented full reconciliation, demonstrating a strong understanding of the codebase and its internal workings. His contributions also involved handling conflicts during CES updates and migrating identity garbage collection.
ebpfnetworkingobservabilitysecuritycontainers
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