Karol Sokolowski
CAREER PIVOT at MIGHT BE YOURS WHO KNOWS
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolKarol Sokolowski is an experienced cloud and SRE engineer with 11 years building and scaling resilient infrastructure across startups and enterprises, from AWS and GCP migrations to Kubernetes-led production platforms. He has driven cost-efficient cloud transformations and automation as Principal SRE at Migo and freelance DevOps for Comgy, and contributed security-focused backend changes to the widely used Teleport project. A former early AWS Redshift hire and DevOps evangelist at Deutsche Bank, Karol blends hands-on incident response with platform architecture and team mentorship. He’s fluent in Polish environments and international cloud programs, having led GCP adoption efforts and public-facing portal launches in Poland. Currently in a deliberate career pivot, he’s regrouping to deepen skills and pursue new challenges after recent senior DevOps and DevOps leadership roles. An early tinkerer turned systems architect, he still enjoys practical optimizations that save time and money while improving reliability.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer science/embedded systems, MSc, Computer science/embedded systems at Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyMSc, Erasmus programme - Computer Engineering, Informatik, MSc, Erasmus programme - Computer Engineering, Informatik at Technische Universität Dresden
Polish, Russian, Czech, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
golang10
mtls10
configuration-management10
teleport10
go10
tls1210
tls1310
libtls10
security10
networking9
audit8
auditing8
ssh7
firewall7
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Karol primarily focused on enhancing the security and configuration options of the Teleport software. Their contributions involved implementing a `--disable-tls` flag to control TLS usage for the web interface, and modifying code to accommodate this new flag and disable TLS where appropriate. The user also made changes to the configuration files and command-line flags, and refactored code related to proxy endpoints, to implement this new configuration option and the associated security implications.
pamsshrdpjumpserversecure
sokoow/kube-desktop
Oct 2018 - Nov 2020
Wanna run a full CI-CD stack on a single kube node, on any infrastructure? Also a good lesson on how to integrate Terraform, Ansible and Helm together into an appliance.
Contributions:132 commits, 2 PRs, 140 pushes in 2 years
applianceyamlfirefoxhelmdocker
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