Bart Smykla
Senior Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Zabrze, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolBart Smykla is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems, distributed systems, cloud and microservices, currently building at Kong from Poland. He is passionate about Go, Rust and JavaScript and prefers backend and infrastructure work over frontend roles. His open-source contributions include security-focused CI/CD and secrets management for OpenFaaS Cloud and key control-plane features for the CNCF-backed Kuma service mesh, showing deep practical experience with Envoy integrations and Kubernetes tooling. At VMware he helped rework Kubernetes release tooling and move k8s infrastructure toward community ownership, blending release engineering with community leadership. He has led small teams to build high-throughput, event-driven systems (hundreds of thousands of events/sec) and brings a founder’s mindset from multiple startups. Quietly driven by continuous improvement, he combines hands-on coding with DevOps and project leadership across cloud-native ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Journalism and Social Communication, Public Relations, 5, Master's degree, Journalism and Social Communication, Public Relations, 5 at University of WroclawBachelor's degree, Journalism and Social Communication, Corporate Identity, Public Relations, 4.5, Bachelor's degree, Journalism and Social Communication, Corporate Identity, Public Relations, 4.5 at University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Polish, English
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Github Skills (40)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
controller10
testing10
secret-management10
cicd10
gitops10
controls10
secrets-manager10
go10
openfaas10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
kumahq/kuma
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 1804 reviews, 146 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Bart's primary contribution was the development and enhancement of features related to service mesh health checks and retry policies within the Kuma control plane. This included implementing HTTP health checks, custom TCP health check strings, and retry policies for HTTP, gRPC and TCP traffic. Their work involved modifying protobuf definitions for these policies and integrating them with Envoy. Furthermore, the user was involved in infrastructure improvements such as implementing a new `kumactl` command for installing CRDs and building tests in a k8s environment.
kumacontourconnectivityvmssandbox
openfaas/openfaas-cloud
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
The Multi-user OpenFaaS Platform
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 27 PRs, 170 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bart primarily contributed to the implementation of features related to secrets management and CI/CD within the OpenFaaS Cloud platform. They developed functionality to import SealedSecrets from `secrets.yml` files and integrated this into the deployment pipeline, impacting the security of secrets management. Furthermore, the user worked on enhancements to the Git integration, including the ability to clone private repositories and the validation of requests within garbage collection, demonstrating DevOps skills. The commits indicate an active role in improving the platform's functionality and security.
swarmserverlesscloudkubernetesmulti-user
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