Dominik Ziajka
Senior Cloud Architect at SolarWinds
Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolDominik Ziajka is a Senior Cloud Architect with nine years of experience building and shaping cloud-native SaaS platforms at SolarWinds, where he helped onboard flagship products to SolarWinds Observability and now drives platform feature and security work. He blends hands-on engineering in Kubernetes, Go, and AWS with architecture and SaaS operational expertise, focusing on reliability and cloud-native security for monitoring and APM products. Earlier in his career he led small teams and owned full-stack delivery and ops, giving him a practical appreciation for developer and infrastructure workflows. An active open-source contributor to the popular GNS3 project, he has improved core server stability and enhanced GUI usability—work that spans backend, DevOps, and user-facing UX touches. Based in Poland, he holds both BE and MSc degrees in Computer Science and is known for quietly fixing hard-to-reproduce infrastructure bugs around encoding, regex, and virtualization integration.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at The Tadeusz Kosciuszko Cracow University of Technology
English, Slovak, Polish
Github Skills (17)
debug10
pyq10
python10
qemu10
networking10
pyqt10
user-interface9
dockers9
ui-design9
interface-design9
docker9
front-end-development9
json8
api7
apidoc7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GNS3/gns3-gui
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
GNS3 Graphical Network Simulator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 160 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Dominik primarily contributed to the GNS3 GUI, enhancing the user interface and application settings. They added SPICE console type support to QEMU settings pages and general preferences, enabling SPICE connections. Furthermore, they modified the project by adding a persistent state for zoom, layers, grid, and interface labels, improving user experience. The commits involved changes to UI files, Python scripts, and the settings configuration.
network-emulatornetwork-simulatorgns3networkingsimulation
GNS3/gns3-server
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
GNS3 server
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 releases, 193 commits, 74 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dominik primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the GNS3 server's stability. Their contributions included resolving configuration loading issues, addressing problems with disk image creation related to Unicode characters, and correcting issues with VPCS name escaping in regex patterns. The user also worked on handling zip file encoding problems during project duplication and improving the QEMU VNC and SPICE support by adding options and updating schemas. These commits indicate a focus on core server functionality and infrastructure configuration.
network-emulatorvmskvmgns3libvirt
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