Jan Medrek
Product Owner at SAP
Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Medrek is a Product Owner and former software developer with nine years of experience building cloud-native backend and DevOps solutions at SAP. He combines product leadership with hands-on engineering, having contributed observability, resilient proxy behavior, and auth token caching to the prominent Kyma open-source project for Kubernetes-based enterprise apps. Based in Silesia, Poland, he moved from developer to PO at SAP after internships and developer roles in SAP Hybris, bringing practical knowledge of metadata services and test reliability improvements. Jan pairs an engineering degree in computer science with a pragmatic focus on production readiness and measurable monitoring, making him adept at translating operational pain points into product priorities.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
prometheus10
application-monitoring10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
api9
docker8
dockers8
cloud-native8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/kyma
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:85 reviews, 44 commits, 90 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jan contributed to the monitoring aspects of the Kyma connector and metadata services, introducing Prometheus metrics and middleware for enhanced observability. They also implemented an auth token cache utilizing the provided `tokencache` interface and improved the proxy's retry mechanism for resilience. Further contributions included refactoring the metadata service for different authentication methods and refactoring and fixing unstable Metadata service tests.
flexibledevopscloud-foundryopenui5sap-hana
janmedrek/kyma
Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
A flexible and easy way to connect and extend enterprise applications in a cloud-native world
Contributions:319 pushes, 70 branches in 2 years 6 months
flexiblekubernetesalibabamicroservicesenterprise-applications
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