Małgorzata Salawa
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMałgorzata Salawa is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and maintaining scalable backend and DevOps systems, currently at Google in Zurich. She brings deep practical knowledge of cloud-native tooling and monitoring—having contributed to Kubernetes' Heapster by improving metric types, label selectors, integration tests and API server config. A strong academic performer with master's degrees from AGH and the University of Lisbon, she blends research experience in natural language and speech with production engineering. Known for automating large-scale refactorings and improving mutation-testing workflows during multiple Google internships, she excels at turning experimental ideas into validated, reliable systems. Outside work she’s an avid mountain and coffee lover training to become a paragliding pilot, a detail that hints at her appetite for disciplined learning and calculated risk-taking.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 95% (19/20), Master's degree, Computer Science, 95% (19/20) at University of LisbonAGH UniversityHigh School, Mathematics and Computer Science faculty, High School, Mathematics and Computer Science faculty at VI Adam Mickiewicz High School in Cracow
English, Polish, German, Italian, Portuguese
Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
go10
api10
apidoc10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
docker8
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
dockers8
api-design8
cloud-infrastructure7
infrastructure7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/heapster
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
[EOL] Compute Resource Usage Analysis and Monitoring of Container Clusters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 25 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
Contributions summary:Małgorzata focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the heapster project, specifically by adding list types for metrics and implementing integration tests. The user's commits added support for label selectors for nodes and pods, indicating efforts to improve data retrieval and filtering capabilities. Further contributions included refactoring the main heapster application and creating the necessary configurations for the API server, showing a mix of backend development and infrastructure/DevOps tasks.
containersclustersdockereolkubernetes
mksalawa/kubernetes
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 107 pushes, 15 branches in 2 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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