Marcin Sulikowski
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMarcin Sulikowski is a Staff Software Engineer based in Warsaw with 12 years of experience designing and delivering distributed, fault-tolerant storage systems. He progressed from hands-on development of the open-source LizardFS distributed file system to senior engineering leadership roles at EditShare and now Google, blending deep systems-level C++ and Linux expertise with production-grade CI and test automation. His work spans chunk server internals, protocol bug fixes, and scaling "scale-out" storage for media and broadcast environments, demonstrating a focus on reliability and performance under real-world workloads. At EditShare he advanced from software developer to Distinguished Engineer, driving architecture and collaboration features for enterprise-class storage. Marcin pairs an academic grounding (MSc in Computer Science, University of Warsaw) with practical contributions to open-source infrastructure, including building CI systems and improving core message handling in LizardFS. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who surfaces subtle protocol bugs and turns them into measurable system improvements.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Warsaw
Github Skills (7)
distributed-systems10
build-system10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
testing9
system-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lizardfs/lizardfs
Jul 2013 - Feb 2015
LizardFS is an Open Source Distributed File System licensed under GPLv3.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:535 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcin's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the chunk server's functionality within the LizardFS distributed file system. The user implemented unit tests, improved the build system, modified the code related to chunk server requests such as creating new packets, sending packets, and creating some of the methods used to serve read requests. A significant change involved addressing a bug in the handling of the LIZ_CLTOCS_READ and LIZ_CLTOCS_WRITE messages, indicating a focus on core system performance.
erasure-codingaccelerationc-plus-plusload-balancingfault-tolerance
marcinsulikowski/sudoku-assistant
May 2020 - Mar 2022
A web app which helps with solving sudoku puzzles
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year 9 months
reactsolvingsudokupuzzlepuzzles
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