Bartek Ogryczak is a seasoned software engineer with over 20 years of programming experience and a 15-year track record of building and scaling high-traffic distributed services. Based in San Francisco, he specializes in backend systems using Python, Django, Kafka, Redis, MySQL and AWS, with deep experience in architecture and performance at scale. He has driven critical infrastructure and platform initiatives at companies like Chime, Eventbrite and Sentry—migrating systems to Kubernetes, standardizing RPC and messaging, and hardening production reliability with rate limiters and circuit breakers. Bartek is an active contributor to Sentry’s backend, improving JSON Schema validation and enriching stack-trace handling for a widely used open-source error-tracking project. He pairs hands-on implementation with technical writing and evangelism, producing runbooks, postmortems and architecture proposals that drive organizational adoption. Notably, his early work on high-throughput systems (real-time risk grids, photo indexing and mass mailing) reflects a long-standing focus on resilient, high-throughput engineering.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of Warsaw
Mathematics Physics and Informatics, Mathematics Physics and Informatics at II LO im. Stefana Batorego
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:480 reviews, 160 PRs, 374 pushes in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bartek primarily worked on enhancing the issue platform within the Sentry project. They implemented schema validation using JSON schema and made necessary modifications to the existing schema. Furthermore, they ensured that stack traces are obtained when new JSON Schema validation fails. Additionally, they also allowed extra fields in StackTrace/Frames, allowing the inclusion of extra fields that were not expected in the SDK.
Contributions:41 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 3 months
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