Damian Szymański
DevOps at Assembla
Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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RockstarDamian Szymański is a DevOps engineer with over a decade of experience building and maintaining CI/CD, configuration management, and production infrastructure from Poland's Lubusz Voivodeship. He has led operations work at Assembla and ran his own consultancy MartNet while earlier shaping DevOps practices for CodeProject’s Polish team, implementing CHEF, Jenkins, Zabbix, ELK, and resilient services like RabbitMQ and Redis. An active contributor to high-profile Travis CI repositories, Damian improved FreeBSD support, package management and Docker/registry configurations—demonstrating deep systems-level expertise across UNIX environments. He pairs hands-on sysadmin skills (notably FreeBSD) with practical automation and monitoring experience, bringing an operator’s mindset to development and deployments. Notably, his background blends long-term entrepreneurial ownership with open-source contributions that directly improved CI tooling used broadly in the community.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Polish, English
Github Skills (11)
cookbook10
bash10
docker10
travis-ci10
package-management10
dockers10
build-automation10
cicd10
freebsd10
system-administration9
git7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
travis-ci/travis-cookbooks
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Chef cookbook monolithic repo :book: :bomb:
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 91 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration of the Travis CI environment for the `travis-cookbooks` repository. Their commits focused on installing and configuring software packages for FreeBSD, modifying recipes to use system libraries, and updating package versions. Additionally, they made changes to the Git and Docker configurations, demonstrating involvement in the build and deployment processes.
monorepocookbookmonolithicmanaged-by-terraformchef
travis-ci/travis-build
Apr 2019 - Oct 2021
.travis.yml => build.sh converter
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & System Administrator
DevOps Engineer & System AdministratorContributions:4 reviews, 50 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily contributed to improving the FreeBSD support and configuration of the Travis CI build system. They added FreeBSD as a supported operating system, updated environment variables, and implemented an addon for installing packages using `pkg`. Furthermore, they modified the Docker configuration to include registry mirrors. The user also addressed various minor issues, such as fixing typos and updating system information.
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