Jan Praczyk
Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Praczyk is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and automating reliable delivery and infrastructure systems across web-scale organisations. Based in Lower Silesia, Poland, he has advanced from junior sysadmin roles to senior DevOps and staff engineering positions at Piwik PRO, Ocado Technology, and WP Engine, specializing in automation, provisioning, monitoring and production resilience. He combines hands-on implementation with architecture-level thinking to streamline CI/CD, testing and application provisioning pipelines. Known for a concise philosophy—"Automate all the things"—he brings a practical, efficiency-first mindset and a knack for turning repetitive operational pain into repeatable, auditable systems. An unusual trait: he peppers his engineering communications with playful riddles, hinting at a creative problem-solving style beneath a strong reliability focus.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Politechnika Wrocławska
Github Skills (104)
linux-distribution10
nix10
firmware10
ruby10
esp3210
nixos10
linux10
broadcom10
musl10
macos10
package-manager10
sd-card10
chroot10
homebrew10
3d-printing10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jpraczyk/brew
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022
🍺 The missing package manager for macOS
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 9 months
macospackage-managerdmgmissing
jpraczyk/homebrew-core
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
formulaepackage-managermissingutilitymacos
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