Jakub Borys
Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJakub Borys is a Senior Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver measurable business value across SaaS, marketplaces, e‑commerce, travel and financial services. He combines hands‑on software architecture and backend expertise (notably Python microservices and contributions to the nameko framework) with a product-minded management style centered on Build-Measure-Learn principles. Jakub has repeatedly scaled delivery velocity—leading migrations to Kubernetes and founding microservices platforms—while driving cost reductions and revenue growth. He’s equally comfortable rescuing large enterprise rewrites and launching startups, bringing a pragmatic mix of technical depth, coaching, and strategic prioritization. Based in England, he pairs an operator’s focus on outcomes with an eye for developer experience and clear API/exception handling that improves team productivity.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Political Science, Bachelor Political Science at Uniwersytet Szczeciński
English, Polish
Github Skills (12)
http10
microservices-application10
microservices10
python10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
testing8
yaml7
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nameko/nameko
Nov 2015 - Aug 2018
Python framework for building microservices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributed to improving the HTTP entrypoint and handling of exceptions within the `nameko` microservices framework. They refactored exception handling, implemented custom error responses in JSON format, and added examples for expected exceptions. Furthermore, the user updated tests and documentation to reflect these changes, ensuring code clarity and usability for developers. They also added basic support for environment variables in config files.
microservicespythonframeworknameko
kooba/nameko
Aug 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:38 pushes, 7 branches, 5 tags in 3 years 10 months
pythonmicroservicemicroservicespython-framework
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