Summary
Bartłomiej Palmowski is a Principal SRE based in Berlin with 12 years of experience designing and operating production infrastructure, primarily focused on IaC and GNU/Linux ecosystems. He blends pragmatic engineering with a “common sense first computing” philosophy—favoring minimal, auditable abstractions and automation-first approaches. His background spans cloud migrations, multi-account AWS IaC (Terraform), Vault-based secrets management, GitLab CI, EKS/GitOps, and on-call/process implementation across companies from startups to large enterprises. He has a strong track record of moving legacy platforms to cloud-native tooling and shipping developer-facing infrastructure like dev portals and autoscalable CI. Known for convincing teams to bake observability and reliability into designs, he pairs deep hands-on skills with practical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer