Christopher Kujawa
Principal Software Engineer at Camunda
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Kujawa is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience specializing in fault-tolerant distributed systems, chaos engineering, and observability for the Camunda platform. He leads systematic chaos experiments and game days to harden Zeebe and Camunda 8, pairing hands-on failure injection with process maturity work that improves incident readiness across teams. A core contributor to open-source projects like Zeebe and Camunda, he has shipped backend improvements around query transformers and OpenSearch integration and bootstrapped Helm charts for self-managed deployments. Christopher combines deep JVM and consensus-algorithm expertise with practical experience across Kubernetes, gRPC, and performance tuning to solve critical, hard-to-reproduce issues. He also communicates lessons broadly through technical blog posts and public Chaos Day documentation, helping other teams adopt resilient design patterns.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Programmiersprachen, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Programmiersprachen at Freie Universität BerlinBachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik, Mobile Applications, Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik, Mobile Applications at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
opensearch10
api10
rest10
bpmn10
restful-api10
java10
searching10
testing10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
camunda/camunda
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Process Orchestration Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2207 reviews, 2551 commits, 1224 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Christopher's commits primarily involve adding and testing query transformers and components, as well as registering classes within the OpensearchTransformers. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the search capabilities and components of the Process Orchestration Framework, by migrating and creating new transformers to manage the query building. The user demonstrated work related to OpenSearch integration and querying capabilities for the project.
golangdistributedcamundaorchestrationworkflow-engine
camunda/camunda-bpm-platform
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
C7 CE enters EOL in October 2025. Please check out C8 https://github.com/camunda/camunda – Flexible framework for workflow and decision automation with BPMN and DMN. Integration with Quarkus, Spring, Spring Boot, CDI.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:268 commits, 7 PRs, 293 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the improvement and extension of the Camunda BPM platform. They focused on adding test cases for file value builders and implementing error boundary events for external tasks, which involved modifying code across multiple Java files. The user also worked on implementing methods to set the priority of external tasks, fetching those tasks by priority, and adding a REST resource for handling BPMN errors.
flexible-frameworkcamundacamunda-bpm-platformdmnspring
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