Kristof Kowalski
Founder at ANZ
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKristof Kowalski is a founder and seasoned engineering leader based in Melbourne with 10+ years building cloud-native, observable systems and developer tooling. He combines deep SRE and observability expertise—particularly OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Prometheus and Dynatrace—with hands-on Golang, Kubernetes and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) engineering. At ANZ he led observability initiatives and OpenTelemetry distributions, and he’s now founding Hyper while also working as a Staff Engineer on AI, CI/CD and observability. His background spans successful startups (co-founding Simply Migrate and VolAir) and enterprise roles at Novartis and the BBC, giving him a unique mix of product instinct and operational rigor. He’s also an active builder of developer-facing projects (creator of pastebase.net and builder of gethyperapp) and brings a practical focus on MLOps/LLMOps and blockchain integration beyond traditional SRE duties.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
General AssemblySydney Adventist High School
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Github Skills (92)
synthetic10
opentelemetry-collector10
opentelemetry10
tempo10
synthetics10
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observability10
tradingview10
command-line-utility10
telemetry10
cert-manager10
resource-management10
collector10
to-yaml10
otel10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
krzko/opentelemetry-shell
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
🚦 OpenTelemetry functions for shells
Contributions:7 releases, 9 reviews, 79 commits in 3 months
opentelemetry-collectortracestracingshellslogging
krzko/otelgen
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
🤖 A tool to generate synthetic OpenTelemetry logs, metrics and traces using OTLP (gRPC and HTTP)
Contributions:14 releases, 24 reviews, 60 commits in 3 months
opentracingtracesgrpctracingsynthetics
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