Jakub Kania
Owner at Black Cat Consulting
Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolJakub Kania is an AWS-focused DevOps and cloud engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating production infrastructure, now running his own consultancy from Katowice. He has a strong background in infrastructure and backend work across consultancy and product teams (Capgemini, Webanywhere, Grand Parade, EQTek), evolving from PHP development into senior infrastructure and cloud roles. Jakub contributes to open-source cloud tooling—notably improving the ec2instances.info project with pricing API integrations, reserved instance support, new region data and deployment optimizations—demonstrating practical expertise in AWS pricing and region management. He combines technical depth in cloud deployments with an operator’s mindset for performance and cost efficiency, honed through client-facing consulting and long-term platform ownership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier, Bazy Danych i Administracja Sieciami, Inżynier, Bazy Danych i Administracja Sieciami at Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej
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Github Skills (32)
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python10
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mysql9
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ec9
json9
terraform9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vantage-sh/ec2instances.info
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
Amazon EC2 instance comparison site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 38 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jakub contributed to the ec2instances.info repository by implementing new features related to AWS EC2 instance pricing, including integrating a new pricing API and adding support for reserved instances. They also updated region and availability information, specifically adding new regions like Osaka, Stockholm, Bahrain, and Cape Town to the site's data. Furthermore, the user improved the deployment process by gzipping HTML files.
ecscost-optimizationec2finopscost-estimation
blckct/moodle
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:28 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 3 months
cmslearning-management-systemcourse-managementgit-repositorymanagement-system
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