Jakub Przychodzeń

Senior Software Engineer at Google

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Summary

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Jakub Przychodzeń is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently based in Warsaw and working at Google. He specializes in Kubernetes, GKE and GCP automation, with notable open-source contributions that improved cluster resilience, log collection, leader election timeouts and node lifecycle stability in the flagship kubernetes repository. His background spans roles from cryptography research to JavaEE backend development at Samsung, giving him a rare blend of systems, security and application-level experience. Pragmatic about automation and testing, he has also improved CI/build tooling and performance test frameworks while authoring robust production scripts for stateful systems like Cassandra. He brings both production-grade DevOps craftsmanship and a history of refactoring legacy tooling into maintainable, testable components.
code9 years of coding experience
job8 years of employment as a software developer
bookMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna w Warszawie
languagesPolish, English
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Github Skills (32)

kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
cicd10
performance-testing10
gcp10
automation10
script10
infrastructure10
go10
prometheus10
build-automation10

Programming languages (9)

HCLJavaDockerfileShellStarlarkGoJupyter NotebookRuby

Github contributions (5)

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kubernetes/perf-tests

Jan 2020 - Jan 2023

Performance tests and benchmarks
Role in this project:
userDevOps Engineer
Contributions:48 reviews, 80 commits, 85 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily focused on improving the repository's build and testing infrastructure, as well as integrating new features. Their contributions include modifying build scripts, adding support for skipping build targets, and integrating the new access-tokens image, likely for testing purposes. Furthermore, they implemented changes to the Prometheus configuration, including adding a new dashboard and enabling the Pushgateway, which would enable performance monitoring. These changes suggest a focus on improving the performance testing framework.
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Source for Google Click to Deploy solutions listed on Google Cloud Marketplace.
Role in this project:
userDevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:33 commits, 54 PRs, 83 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributed to the operational aspects of deploying and managing a Cassandra database on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Their work involved creating scripts for scaling, backing up, and restoring the Cassandra cluster. They also implemented procedures for upgrading the system. Furthermore, the user was involved in refactoring Bash scripts and incorporating flag parsing for improved maintainability, alongside enhancements to the testing infrastructure.
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