David Robakowski
DevOps Engineer at Synlay Technologies UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarDavid Robakowski is a seasoned DevOps engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructures from his base in Hamburg. He leads technical delivery at Synlay Technologies, where he architects automated Terraform-driven CI/CD pipelines, VPN networking, and AWS-hosted ERP/CRM and cloud-desktop solutions, while coordinating external vendors. As founder and operator he has hands-on responsibility for full-stack infrastructure stacks across AWS, Google Cloud, and self-hosted platforms (Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket), blending consulting, client acquisition and technical leadership. A longtime Erlang backend contributor, David has improved performance, reliability and build tooling in notable projects such as ChicagoBoss and BossDB, demonstrating deep expertise in databases, caching (Redis/Memcached/ETS) and production-grade logging. He’s comfortable turning complex, legacy enterprise requirements into automated, auditable cloud operations and thrives on pragmatic refactoring to reduce technical debt.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
app-framework10
web-framework10
orm10
erlang10
postgresql10
redis9
caching9
build-automation8
memcached7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ErlyORM/boss_db
Jan 2014 - Apr 2016
BossDB: a sharded, caching, pooling, evented ORM for Erlang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `BossDB` project by fixing bugs, optimizing performance, and improving code maintainability. They addressed issues related to database interactions, specifically with PostgreSQL, and caching mechanisms using Redis, Memcached, and ETS. Additionally, the user improved the project's build process and added features for better code compilation and error handling. This includes refactoring and improving the interaction with the rebar build tool.
gleamerlangpoolingcachingbossdb
ChicagoBoss/ChicagoBoss
Jul 2014 - Nov 2015
Erlang web MVC, now featuring Comet
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Erlang-based backend of the ChicagoBoss web framework. Their work involved adding features like SSL support for database connections and improving logging practices by replacing existing logs with `lager` counterparts, indicating a focus on error handling and debugging. They also modified the application's core files, including those for handling requests, routes, and initialization of different components.
erlangcometweb-appframeworkweb-mvc
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