Jędrzej Nowak
Founding Engineer at Startup Currently In Stealth Mode
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolJędrzej Nowak is a founding engineer and senior engineering leader with 17+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and scaling global teams across crypto, telecom, and enterprise software. He combines deep technical fluency in Kubernetes, Go, Rust, Python and TypeScript with proven execution—leading multi-timezone teams to a mainnet launch and maintaining mission-critical systems for millions of users. Jędrzej repeatedly turns chaotic engineering into repeatable delivery by instituting strong release practices, observability, security controls and cost-optimised infrastructure (including bare-metal POET designs). He has a track record of practical open-source contributions to Kubernetes tooling and test clusters, improving demo/test automation and cluster image workflows. Equally comfortable in code and organizational design, he hires and coaches high-performing distributed teams and builds remote-first cultures that attract top talent. Now seeking to drive engineering at scale as an Engineering Manager or Head of Engineering, he brings a rare blend of founding grit and enterprise-grade process discipline.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at WIT Academy
English, Polish
Github Skills (15)
sh10
infrastructure-as-code10
kubernetes10
bash10
docker10
script10
shell10
devops10
containerization10
dockers10
scripting10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml8
testing8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
Mirantis/virtlet
Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
Kubernetes CRI implementation for running VM workloads
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 192 commits, 189 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jędrzej primarily focused on improving the project's demonstration and testing procedures. They implemented the ability to set versions in the demo scripts and updated the test environment to use master artifacts. Furthermore, the user fixed build and deployment configurations, including image checks and environment settings, to ensure the demo runs correctly, particularly when using different platforms, such as linuxkit. The user also updated the underlying dependencies for the project, including switching to kubernetes-sigs for the kubeadm-dind-cluster and using a newer version of CNI-genie.
crikubernetesworkloads
kubernetes-retired/kubeadm-dind-cluster
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
[EOL] A Kubernetes multi-node test cluster based on kubeadm
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jędrzej's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the `kubeadm-dind-cluster` repository with features that improve the management and configuration of a Kubernetes test cluster. The commits involve modifications to the `dind-cluster.sh` script, including adding support for configuring registry mirrors and insecure registries within the Docker containers. They also introduced the `copy-image` command, demonstrating work on image management for the cluster. Furthermore, the user generated fixes to various shell scripts.
multi-nodetestingdeveloper-toolseolkubernetes
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