Grzegorz Gurgul
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolGrzegorz Gurgul is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with 12 years of experience building backend and DevOps solutions across finance, retail, and cloud platforms. He combines deep academic training—pursuing a PhD in Computer Science—with hands-on systems work from automation at Oracle to platform engineering at UBS, zooplus, Tesco and now Azure. At Microsoft he has driven secure authentication and CI/CD reliability, notably adding workload identity federation and debugging enhancements to the high-profile azure-pipelines-tasks repository. Equally comfortable in leadership and individual-contributor roles, he has led teams as a Software Development Manager and shipped critical fixes for artifact downloads and ARM REST integrations. Based in Krakow, he focuses on secure, production-ready integrations that bridge developer experience and platform reliability. Peers describe him as a pragmatic engineer who brings research rigor to everyday operational challenges.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at AGH University of KrakowV LO im. Augusta Witkowskiego w Krakowie
English
Github Skills (14)
azure-devops-server10
azure-devops10
ci-cd-pipeline10
azure-cli10
dockers9
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
docker9
api8
apidoc8
nodejs7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 28 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Grzegorz primarily contributed to the Azure Pipelines Tasks repository by enhancing the Azure CLI integration. They implemented workload identity federation support across several tasks including AzureCLIV1/V2, allowing for secure authentication. The user also addressed bugs related to artifact downloads and content stitching in the DownloadBuildArtifacts task. Further contributions involved improvements to the Azure ARM REST API integration and the addition of debugging features.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
JustMarriedTeam/JustMarriedServer
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:297 commits, 277 pushes, 9 branches in 6 months
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