Marek Grabowski
Production Engineering Manager at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
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Marek Grabowski is a production engineering leader with 11+ years building and running large-scale cloud services, now managing production engineering at Meta after leading Kubernetes and Prometheus-based monitoring efforts at Goldman Sachs. He brings deep hands-on SRE and backend experience from Google, where he was an early Kubernetes contributor and scalability tech lead, and remains in the top contributors to Kubernetes performance and API projects. Marek excels at balancing short-term delivery with long-term maintainability, designing for performance, reliability and testability while owning end-to-end incident response and observability. His background blends rigorous academic research in distributed systems and big data with practical expertise in Go, GCP and OpenMetrics. Notably, he contributed Prometheus SLO integrations and pod-startup latency benchmarks that improved Kubernetes’ reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Warsaw
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
validations10
kubernetes-apiserver10
testing10
storage10
validation10
data-structure10
cicd10
performance-testing10
google-cloud-storage10
go10
api10
cloud-object-storage10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/perf-tests
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018
Performance tests and benchmarks
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & SRE
DevOps Engineer & SREContributions:61 commits, 78 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Marek primarily focused on improving the performance tests and benchmarks for Kubernetes. They added Travis CI configuration to automate testing. The user also made changes to the verification scripts and boilerplate checks. Furthermore, they integrated Prometheus metrics for SLO monitoring, including pod startup latency, demonstrating a focus on monitoring and reliability.
stress-testingbenchmarkingperformance-testsbenchmarkperformance
kubernetes-retired/contrib
Nov 2015 - May 2017
[EOL] This is a place for various components in the Kubernetes ecosystem that aren't part of the Kubernetes core.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:62 commits, 84 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Marek primarily contributed to the `contrib` repository by modifying the `mungegithub/mungers/submit-queue.go` file. These changes added, removed, and updated the jobs used for stability testing within the Kubernetes ecosystem. The user adjusted the list of jobs in Jenkins, added specific tests, and updated the configuration to leverage GCS as a source of truth. This work indicates a focus on improving the CI/CD pipeline and ensuring the stability of the Kubernetes project's components.
placeeolk8skubernetesecosystem
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