Dawid Pogorzelski
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Malmo, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorDawid Pogorzelski is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Malmö with two decades in tech and 11 years focused on SRE, cloud and infrastructure engineering across gaming, media, and smart-city domains. He designs and operates large-scale, hybrid and multi-cloud platforms—from bare-metal MMO backends to GPU-powered serverless and ML training/deployment infrastructure at Wikimedia—combining deep hands-on expertise witharchitectural leadership. Dawid has repeatedly driven platform transformations (SaltStack automation at Ubisoft, Terraform Enterprise adoption, HashiCorp Nomad orchestration) and built CI/CD and real-time systems that cut deployment times from weeks to minutes. He mentors teams, hires SRE talent, and bridges product, research and volunteer communities to deliver reliable, secure services under heavy load. An active contributor to the SaltStack project, he has improved minion startup and cloud modules to better integrate orchestration with public cloud networking. Pragmatic and systems-minded, he brings rare cross-domain experience shipping mission-critical infrastructure for games and ML at global scale.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
infrastructure-as-code10
automation10
manage10
saltstack10
cloud-computing10
cloud-manager10
python10
gcp9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Dawid primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration management within the SaltStack project. Their contributions include modifications to the minion and proxy minion startup processes, likely to improve their operational behavior, specifically related to "mine" updates. They also worked on the cloud-related parts of the project, modifying the gce cloud module, including changes to address issues around external IP assignment and management. This suggests a focus on ensuring proper operation and integration of SaltStack within cloud environments.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
dpogorzelski/speedrun
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Control your compute fleet at scale
Contributions:5 releases, 219 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 5 months
command-line-toolgcpgolangscalecloud
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