Summary
Łukasz Piątkowski is a Kubernetes Platform Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience in cloud-native platforms, developer experience, and large-scale application management, currently shaping GitOps-driven fleets and developer tooling at Giant Swarm. He combines deep practical skills—Flux CD, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki observability, Crossplane, Kubernetes RBAC—and custom controller work with strategic coordination across product and C-level stakeholders. Previously he led design and operations of multi-tenant CaaS platforms and bespoke networking/proxy solutions, and he holds a PhD in distributed systems replication, giving him rare depth in consistency and high-availability design. Known for enabling teams through knowledge sharing and removing blockers, he pairs research-driven evaluation with direct implementation to accelerate delivery. He also brings strong low-level networking and hardware experience from high-performance projects, which informs his pragmatic approach to cloud scaling and reliability.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Technology at Poznan University of Technology