Daniel Dyląg is an Engineering Manager and Tech Lead based in Poland with 11 years of experience building and guiding high-performing backend teams. He combines hands-on backend development expertise with leadership, currently shaping engineering direction at OpenX. His open-source contributions to the widely used Apache Airflow project demonstrate deep practical knowledge of workflow orchestration, including fixes for orphaned tasks, scheduler robustness, and triggerer thread stability. Daniel is comfortable navigating complex distributed systems and platform-level issues while mentoring engineers to deliver reliable production services. Notably, he balances strategic oversight with code-level improvements—refactoring, cross-platform test fixes, and careful state management—that reduce operational friction.
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:15 reviews, 11 PRs, 50 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the backend logic of Apache Airflow. They implemented fixes for orphaned tasks and refactored code, including the removal of unused states. Further improvements involved addressing issues within the scheduler, particularly concerning manual runs and the planning of new dag runs. They also demonstrated expertise by renaming variables and addressing macOS-specific unit test issues, alongside resolving thread crashes within the triggerer.
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