Dawid Kowalski
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolDawid Kowalski is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with 7 years of experience building large-scale, high-impact core infrastructure and cloud services, currently leading teams at Microsoft. His career includes deep platform work on Azure load balancing and Apple’s internal cloud, and he helped pioneer Kubernetes-based Elastic Cloud as a Principal Engineer at Elastic. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps contributions—such as enhancements to the widely-used elastic/cloud-on-k8s operator—with architectural leadership in distributed systems, networking, and cloud-native transformations. Known for turning operator and control-plane complexity into reliable production services, he pairs strong technical craftsmanship with a track record of shipping orchestration and configuration features tested end-to-end. Based in Greater Poland, he holds an M.Sc. in Software Engineering from Poznan University of Technology and brings both enterprise-scale experience and open-source collaboration to platform modernization efforts.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Engineering at Poznan University of Technology
Polish, English
Github Skills (15)
yaml10
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
develop10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/cloud-on-k8s
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 218 reviews, 322 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dawid's commits primarily focused on modifying the Kubernetes configuration files and the Go code related to the operator functionality for the `cloud-on-k8s` repository. The user implemented features related to config maps and secrets. The changes involved modifying and adding configuration options for fleet mode. The user also added tests related to features implemented.
kubernetes-operatorselastickibanakuberneteselasticsearch
david-kow/cloud-on-k8s
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Contributions:464 pushes, 577 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 3 months
elastickuberneteselasticsearch
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