Marcin Franczyk
Staff Software Engineer at vCluster
Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcin Franczyk is a Staff Software Engineer based in Poland with nearly a decade of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, specializing in virtualization and container orchestration. He has driven KubeVirt integration and multi-cluster automation at Kubermatic, led image compatibility work for OCI at Huawei Open Source, and now contributes to vCluster at a senior technical level. A proven open-source maintainer, his GitHub contributions include extending kubermatic/machine-controller with Flatcar, GCP nested virtualization, and provider-specific integrations that show deep cloud-provider and infrastructure expertise. He combines hands-on engineering—operators, CSI drivers, cloud-init enhancements—with cross-vendor standards work and conference advocacy, making him effective both in code and in community leadership. Notably, he blends enterprise production deployments across on-prem, AWS, and GCP with practical tooling (e.g., chaos-style testing and upgrade automation) that improves reliability at scale.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier (Inż.) Informatyka, Inżynier (Inż.) Informatyka at Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania i BankowościBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Cracow University of Technology
Polish, English
Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
go10
cloud-infrastructure10
kubernetes-pods10
gcp10
dockers9
cloud-computing9
cloud-init9
openstack9
docker9
libvirt9
api8
yaml8
cicd8
apidoc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubermatic/machine-controller
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:1 release, 102 reviews, 13 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Marcin's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the functionality of the `kubermatic/machine-controller` repository, with an emphasis on integrating Flatcar support through cloud-init and cloud-config. They implemented support for Anexia Cloud by reserving IP addresses before VM creation. Furthermore, they updated the codebase to leverage the kubevirt/api instead of kubevirt/client-go, and made changes to integrate GCP nested virtualization and guest OS features within the infrastructure. These changes demonstrate expertise in cloud provider integrations and infrastructure management.
kubermatic/terraform-provider-kubermatic
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
Terraform Kubermatic provider
Contributions:13 reviews, 18 commits, 6 PRs in 10 months
terraform-providerkubermaticproviderterraform
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