Karol Nowak
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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Top SchoolKarol Nowak is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Krakow with 18 years of experience building and operating resilient distributed systems. He blends deep systems administration roots (Debian, FreeBSD, Solaris) with hands-on SRE practice at DuckDuckGo and earlier platform and database stewardship at Base CRM, where he designed MySQL binlog streaming and change-capture tooling. Analytical and methodical, he emphasizes clear conceptual models, repeatable testing, and fast incident diagnosis under pressure, drawing on a background in performance engineering and JVM/network-level root-cause analysis. A mentor and cross-team collaborator, he takes personal ownership of production outcomes and enjoys exploring domains beyond his core expertise. A long-time free-software enthusiast and early Google Summer of Code participant, he contributes pragmatically to open-source ecosystems and values tooling that improves reliability and observability.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters degree Computer science, Masters degree Computer science at University of Lodz
English, Polish, Dutch
Github Skills (47)
wiki-engine10
tiddlywiki10
python9
french9
gnu9
elasticsearch8
linux8
security8
2d-game8
firewall-rules8
networking8
dashboard8
duckduckgo8
monitoring8
amazon8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
knowak/pirx
Jul 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
futuresimple/mantrid
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 1 branch, 10 comments in 2 months
golangconfigurableruntimeloggingperformance
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