Filip Petkovski
Staff Production Engineer at Shopify
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFilip Petkovski is a Staff Production Engineer at Shopify with 11 years of experience building cost-conscious, high-performance observability and infrastructure platforms. He blends backend engineering and DevOps expertise—shipping improvements to widely used CNCF projects like Thanos and Prometheus and hardening OpenShift monitoring stacks at Red Hat. Known for pragmatic refactors and stability-focused contributions (list-watchers, CI flakiness fixes, query pushdown optimizations), he repeatedly turns complex distributed-system problems into maintainable solutions. Based in Bavaria, he brings hands-on systems design from cloud migrations and platform work at Personio to production-scale observability at Shopify, and his early GSoC machine-translation work hints at a strong analytical foundation beyond ops.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Exchange Student Machine Intelligence, Erasmus Exchange Student Machine Intelligence at Aalborg UniversityMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at FER
English, Macedonian, Croatian
Github Skills (37)
monitoring10
apim10
kubernetes10
controller10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
api-design10
testing10
cicd10
go10
prometheus10
openshift10
api10
jsonnet10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kube-state-metrics
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 128 reviews, 33 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Filip primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase related to list watchers and metrics stores. They removed unused constructor functions and replaced a multi-lister watcher with independent listWatchers, resolving potential issues. They also made code review suggestions and renamed several functions and test files. The user's contributions aimed to improve the stability and maintainability of the project.
prometheus-exporteragentkubernetes-exporterobservabilityexpose
thanos-io/thanos
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1044 reviews, 56 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Filip implemented and improved core backend functionalities within the Thanos project, focusing on both storage and query APIs. They worked on installing and integrating gRPC utilities and contributed to improving the query pushdown optimization for aggregations in the Prometheus sidecar. Further work involved extending existing APIs and adding features such as implementing a gRPC query API analogous to the HTTP Query API.
promqlobservabilityprometheusstoragegoogle-cloud-storage
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