Marcin Karkocha
Chief Technology Strategist Turning IT Budgets Into Strategic Investments For Boards, CFOs & CIOs
Gdansk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMarcin Karkocha is a Chief Technology Strategist and founder who helps Boards, CFOs and CIOs turn IT budgets from growing costs into measurable strategic investments, drawing on 18 years across programming, architecture, DevOps and C-level advisory. He specializes in unmasking duplicated systems and hidden cost leaks using value stream mapping, architecture reviews and data-driven decision scenarios that are board-ready. Marcin has led cloud-native and modernization efforts for enterprises €100M+ across Europe and Asia, and his hands-on background includes contributing OpenStack integrations to the widely used PerfKit Benchmarker project. Equally comfortable coding, designing platforms, or presenting to executives, he combines technical depth with a practical framework (VSDA, CoE Masters) to align IT portfolios with business outcomes. Based in Gdańsk, he often joins organizations when IT is promising value but failing to demonstrate it, turning ambiguous roadmaps into investable, outcome-focused plans.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science/Programming General, Bachelor's degree Computer Science/Programming General at Nicolaus Copernicus University
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
cloud-infrastructure10
openstack10
python10
vms9
manage9
networking8
apim7
api7
javascript6
amazon-web-services6
aws-organizations6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
PerfKit Benchmarker (PKB) contains a set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings. The benchmarks use default settings to reflect what most users will see. PerfKit Benchmarker is licensed under the Apache 2 license terms. Please make sure to read, understand and agree to the terms of the LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING files before proceeding.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:33 commits, 16 PRs, 72 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Marcin significantly contributed to the OpenStack integration within the PerfKit Benchmarker project. Their work involved implementing support for features such as affinity and anti-affinity groups. They addressed race conditions in getting floating IP addresses and updated the Nova API version. Additionally, the user refactored existing code, including changes to device naming and volume attachment processes, demonstrating a focus on improving infrastructure management within the OpenStack environment.
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kivio/PerfKitBenchmarker
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 75 pushes, 54 branches in 10 months
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