Krzysztof Słonka
Senior Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolKrzysztof Słonka is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and securing cloud-native systems, currently contributing to Kong from Luxembourg. He specializes in service mesh and Envoy ecosystems—having driven mTLS, RBAC, multi-cloud features, and resilience testing in production control planes—and contributes to the CNCF-backed Kuma project (notably kumactl and kuma-dp). A pragmatic backend and DevOps engineer, he automates infrastructure with Terraform and has improved performance and observability across platforms. He also has hands-on product experience leading cross-platform squads (Deliveroo) and a background teaching JavaScript and React, reflecting a blend of mentorship and deep technical craft. An avowed vi/vim user who enjoys clever CLI text-processing, he favors practical, test-driven improvements like in-memory configurations and clearer runtime errors.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Technik, Technik Informatyk, Technik, Technik Informatyk at Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych Elektrycznych i Mechanicznych w Bielsku-BiałejAGH University
English
Github Skills (12)
service-mesh10
go10
testing10
kubernetes-pods9
control-center9
devops9
convoy9
envoyproxy9
control-panel9
env9
kubernetes9
cicd8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kumahq/kuma
May 2022 - Jan 2023
🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 1936 reviews, 64 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Krzysztof primarily contributed to the `kumactl` tool and the Kuma data plane (kuma-dp). Their work focused on improving testing, specifically by adding in-memory configurations. They also clarified error messages in the data plane and implemented automatic DNS lookup family detection for the control plane cluster. Furthermore, the user was involved in bringing back install components for metrics, tracing, and logging to the install command.
kumacontourconnectivityvmssandbox
allegro/envoy-control
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
Envoy Control is a platform-agnostic, production-ready Control Plane for Service Mesh based on Envoy Proxy.
Contributions:166 reviews, 280 commits, 136 PRs in 3 years
envoy-proxymeshenvoyenvoy-controlproxy
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