Jakub Sokołowski
Head Of Infrastructure at Status
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolJakub Sokołowski is an experienced infrastructure leader with 13+ years building and operating scalable systems, currently heading infrastructure at the Institute of Free Technology and Status.im. He combines hands-on DevOps, systems and network administration with team leadership—owning CI/CD, monitoring, Ethereum node clusters, and incident response processes. A pragmatic automator, he prefers to eliminate repetitive work through scripting and robust pipelines, and has improved build and release flows for projects like status-go with Prometheus metrics and parallel Jenkins pipelines. Passionate about free and open source software, he aims to contribute to projects such as the Linux kernel and brings deep familiarity with both cloud-scale outages (AWS event response) and developer-facing tooling. Located in Warsaw, he is selective about engagements and seeks roles that span software and hardware boundaries while allowing technical exploration.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree System And Network Programming, Engineer's degree System And Network Programming at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information TechnologyHigh School of Joachim Lelewel
Polish, English, German
Github Skills (14)
golang10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
go10
devops10
ethereum10
cicd10
blockchain10
build-automation9
prometheus8
docker8
dockers8
kubernetes6
kubernetes-pods6
Programming languages (37)
Github contributions (5)
status-im/status-go
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
The Status module that consumes go-ethereum
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:299 reviews, 143 commits, 291 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily contributed to updating and maintaining the Status module that consumes go-ethereum, focusing on core infrastructure and build processes. Their work included updating static nodes and bootnodes within the cluster configuration files, reflecting a focus on network stability and configuration management. They also modified the Jenkinsfile to adopt a parallel declarative format, added build status notifications, and implemented a metrics endpoint for Prometheus. Furthermore, they made key improvements to the build pipeline and release process, including adding systemd service cleanup scripts and fixing various build-related issues.
golanggo-ethereumconsumesethereumblockchain
status-im/status-cli-client
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Simple CLI utility for sending Status messages.
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year
commandlinecli-appstatuscli-utilitysending
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