Krzysztof Szarlej
Principal DevOps Engineer at Smallpdf
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolKrzysztof Szarlej is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in Zurich with a decade of experience designing cloud architectures and leading DevOps practices across AWS and GCP. He has progressed from hands-on system administration and OpenStack/CEPH operations to building large-scale, production-grade infrastructures and CI/CD pipelines for customers spanning finance, automotive, travel and enterprise SaaS. At Smallpdf he now shapes platform reliability and developer workflows, having previously founded kscloud to build dtekt.io and even authored a Terraform provider in Go. His background includes architecting an AWS system supporting 50k+ endpoints and deep familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, ELK, and cloud cost/resilience reviews. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances automation-first thinking with clear operational documentation and partnership-building (e.g., achieving AWS Select Partner status). He combines startup agility with enterprise-grade rigor, routinely moving projects from PoC to audited production.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Liceum Ogólnokształcące w Suchej BeskidzkiejAGH University
Polish, English
Github Skills (121)
webpagetest10
terraform10
infrastructure10
terraform-module10
markdown10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
developer-tools10
lighthouse10
graph10
audit10
mdx10
auditing10
terragrunt10
ecr10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
AirHelp/mediawiki-docker
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019
Docker container for MediaWiki
Contributions:17 commits, 14 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 3 months
tiddlywikidockertiddlywiki5docker-containermediawiki
kscloud/siteperf-docs
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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