Mariusz Józala is a senior software engineer with 13+ years of experience in the Java/JVM ecosystem, specializing in developer productivity, platform engineering, and cloud-native migrations. He has led large-scale moves to Kubernetes and GitOps, built shared libraries, Gradle plugins, CI/CD pipelines and IntelliJ tooling to streamline day-to-day developer workflows across monoliths and microservices. His recent work spans site reliability at Atlassian and test automation contributions to the high-profile Elasticsearch project, where he migrated QA tests to a modern REST testing framework. Based in Wrocław, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with a systems-level view of multi-cloud and managed Kubernetes platforms. Outside work he’s a smart-home enthusiast, reflecting a practical curiosity for applied automation and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering at University of Technology in Wrocław
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Tadeusza Kościuszki w Wieluniu (secondary/high school)
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:41 reviews, 88 PRs, 45 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mariusz primarily focused on migrating and updating existing Quality Assurance (QA) tests within the Elasticsearch repository. These tests were migrated to a new REST testing framework, improving the testing infrastructure. The contributions involved changes to test configuration, log parsing, and Docker image configurations. Additionally, the user added tests related to Debian packaging and Docker image configurations.
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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Mariusz Józala - Senior Software Engineer at Elastic