Damian Nowak
CEO, Software Engineer, Co-Founder at Virtkick, Inc.
Floresville, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamian Nowak is a seasoned software leader and founder with 13+ years delivering cloud-native infrastructure, SRE and product teams into production. As CEO and co-founder of Virtkick (a Techstars-backed startup) he led fundraising, product and ops while remaining a hands-on engineer building Ruby, Python and libvirt integrations and automations. He’s led DevOps and SRE teams at DreamHost and Tenfold, migrating legacy stacks to Terraform, Kubernetes and GitLab CI while improving reliability at scale. A long-time Ruby and Arch Linux enthusiast who started hacking PHP in middle school, Damian pairs deep systems-level knowledge (virtualization, Vault, Terraform, Kubernetes) with pragmatic agile engineering and strong people skills. He also contributes to open-source orchestration work such as the Archipel XMPP-based orchestrator, demonstrating a taste for iterating core platform features.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Informatics, Bachelor of Science Informatics at Gdańsk University of TechnologyHigh school, High school at Collegium Marianum
English, German, Polish
Github Skills (8)
libvirt10
xmpp10
python10
virtualization10
apidoc9
api9
database7
databases7
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
ArchipelProject/Archipel
Jul 2013 - Jan 2014
XMPP Based Orchestrator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily focused on enhancing the Archipel project's core functionality, addressing specific issues related to ISO file handling and performance. Their contributions include modifying storage management to accommodate a broader range of file types, optimizing permission template application, and refactoring code related to virtual machine allocation. The user also introduced and then reverted a feature concerning an optional UUID parameter within the hypervisor control system, indicating a focus on iterating the project's core features.
orchestratorxmppiot
ihtimir/virtkick-webapp
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:117 commits in 2 months
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