Summary
Jacek Szlachta is a seasoned platform and core engineer with 12 years’ experience building and securing large-scale cloud and Kubernetes platforms for enterprises like Sky, Vocalink and Lloyds. He specializes in Kubernetes operator development (kubebuilder), CI/CD automation, and infrastructure-as-code across AWS, GCP and multi-cloud environments, with a strong focus on security and resilience. Jacek has delivered critical national-infrastructure projects and migrated complex platforms between clouds, pairing pragmatic DevSecOps practices with performance-driven engineering. He is fluent in Golang, Ruby and automation tooling (Terraform, ArgoCD, Github Actions) and has hands-on experience with service meshes, Kafka, and high-availability platform tooling. Notably, he has worked on both cutting-edge internal Kubernetes operators and genomics sequencing automation, demonstrating an unusual intersection of cloud-native platform engineering and scientific compute workflows. Based in Stony Stratford, he combines deep operational experience with a track record of open-source and platform-focused contributions within large-scale production environments.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Informatics and Econometrics, Masters Informatics and Econometrics at Krakow University of Economics
English, Polish