Summary
Emil Kleszcz is a seasoned systems and big data engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and evolving mission-critical data platforms at CERN. Currently Service Manager in the IT Department, he leads Hadoop, Spark, HBase and ElasticSearch/OpenSearch services across development-to-production lifecycles while mentoring peers and advising users on analytics pipelines. His background spans full-stack development, automation, and DevOps—Python, Java, Puppet, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph and Terraform—used to deliver 100+ production clusters and observability at scale. Emil pairs academic rigor from top European universities with practical engineering, having built quota-management portals, automated testing/configuration tooling, and delivered community trainings. He is notable for combining deep low-level sysadmin expertise with product-minded service management in one of the world’s most demanding research infrastructures.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences at Nanyang Technological University
Master's degree, Computer Science, IT Systems Engineering, excellent with distinction, Summa Cum Laude, Master's degree, Computer Science, IT Systems Engineering, excellent with distinction, Summa Cum Laude at Warsaw University of Technology
TU Delft
English, Polish, French