Kamil Essekkat
Freelance Software Engineer at Self-employed
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolKamil Essekkat is a freelance software engineer based in Warsaw with 12 years of experience building back-end systems in Python, Java and Kotlin and a strong focus on automation and continuous delivery. He has shipped production services across startups and enterprise teams—co-founding a backend at Where., maintaining Ipla’s payment and event-sourced systems, and later moving into product management at YouGov. Pragmatic about quality, he blends test automation, CI/CD and performance tuning with hands-on development, and has contributed to open-source tooling for Elasticsearch index management. Comfortable switching between developer and product perspectives, he brings both system-level rigor and a pragmatic, delivery-oriented mindset to complex backend problems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
none, none at Warsaw School of Economics
English, German, Polish
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Github Skills (10)
elasticsearch-curator10
regular-expression10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
apache-curator10
python10
index-management10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/curator
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Curator: Tending your Elasticsearch indices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:Kamil focused on enhancing the Elasticsearch Curator tool. They implemented functionality to exclude indices based on prefixes using a regular expression pattern. Furthermore, the user updated multiple functions to include the exclude-prefix parameter and updated the code to leverage the new feature throughout the codebase, enhancing the flexibility and precision of index management. The commits also included merging in updates from the master branch.
elasticsearch-clientcuratorindiceselasticsearch
ekamil/asparagus
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 37 commits, 18 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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