Karel Kubat
SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolKarel Kubat is an experienced SRE and technical architect with nearly three decades of hands-on experience solving complex ICT challenges, currently focused on reliability and operations at Google in Zurich. He has led and managed ICT departments and projects across banking and insurance, specializing in web-enabling legacy systems, security architecture, SOA and transaction monitoring. As co‑owner of a niche consulting firm he architected payment platforms and SEPA conversion services, combining project leadership with deep implementation work. His background as a troubleshooter for back-office financial applications and as a security specialist at major banks gives him rare end-to-end insight into regulated, mission-critical systems. Karel also contributes to open-source infrastructure tooling—most recently packaging and integrating a Go-based zero-knowledge bridging protocol into Nix builds—showing a pragmatic blend of DevOps, build systems and security. He pairs academic roots in computer science with a practical, product-minded approach to delivering auditable, resilient systems.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Drs, Medicine, Computer Science, Drs, Medicine, Computer Science at University of Groningen
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Github Skills (10)
build-system10
go10
nix10
golang9
scripting7
script7
bash7
callback6
buffering6
gcc6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
unionlabs/union
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol, designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and usage in decentralized finance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 reviews, 12 PRs, 41 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Karel primarily focused on building and packaging the `uniond` binary, integrating it into the Nix build system. Their contributions involved building, packaging and integrating the Go module using `buildGoModule`. The user also implemented build script modifications to enhance the codebase. These changes indicate a strong understanding of build systems and packaging within a Go project.
astroblockchainbridgecosmoscosmwasm
KaiserKarel/django-ark-graphql
Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
django-ark-db integration including a graphql api endpoint.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
apipythongraphql-apidjango-rest-frameworkdjango
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