Bartosz Gałek
Distributed Systems Engineer at Allegro
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBartosz Gałek is a Distributed Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working at Netflix after a long, progressive engineering career at Allegro where he rose from developer to principal and tech lead. He specializes in Java, JavaScript and DevOps practices, with hands-on experience improving build and release automation (notably contributing release management fixes to Allegro’s axion-release-plugin) and enhancing persistence layers in JVM projects like JaVers. A practical systems thinker, he focuses on making complex distributed systems reliable and maintainable while coaching teams and driving DevOps adoption. Based in Warsaw, he’s an energetic hacker and frequent hackathon participant who channels his enthusiasm into open-source contributions and team mentorship. An avid board-game player, he brings the same strategic playfulness to architecting robust software and streamlining delivery pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Programming Specific Applications, Bachelor of Information Technology Computer Programming Specific Applications at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
English
Stackoverflow
573reputation
62kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (23)
java10
javas10
sql10
gradle-plugin10
release-automation10
gradlew10
semantic-versioning10
gradle10
groovy9
hibernate9
spring-boot8
postgresql7
junit7
mariadb6
rest6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
allegro/axion-release-plugin
Aug 2015 - Nov 2022
Gradle release & version management plugin.
Role in this project:
Release Manager & Automation Engineer
Release Manager & Automation EngineerContributions:68 releases, 106 reviews, 121 commits in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bartosz primarily focused on release management and versioning tasks within the Gradle plugin. Their contributions include updating versions, modifying documentation, and fixing test dependencies. They also updated the Gradle wrapper and configuration, and refactored configuration files related to the build and release process. Additionally, the user's commits involved changes to the code and the dependency management, as well as configuration of the build process, making the project compatible with Gradle configuration cache.
gradlegradle-releaserelease-automationsemantic-versioningversioning
javers/javers
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
JaVers - object auditing and diff framework for Java
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bartosz primarily worked on back-end functionalities for object auditing and diff framework. Their contributions involved implementing and refining methods for saving and retrieving global identifiers within a SQL-based persistence layer. The user also focused on integrating Hibernate with Javers, involving changes to the proxy handling mechanisms. Testing and bug fixing related to the persistence layer and Hibernate integration were also part of their work.
javaauditingdiff
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.