Mateusz Gozdek
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMateusz Gozdek is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of hands-on experience designing and hardening cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He blends system administration instincts with backend and DevOps engineering, contributing to high-profile open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus where he improved resiliency, build processes, and test reliability. At Microsoft and prior roles at Kinvolk and dunnhumby/Sociomantic he focused on build automation, release stability, and bootstrap/bootstrapping flows for clusters across Azure, AWS and bare-metal environments. Known for "reducing accidental complexity," he frequently ships pragmatic fixes—like SO_REUSEPORT support for kube-apiserver and Ignition bootstrap integration—that unlock smoother upgrades and deployments. Colleagues rely on him to tame flaky tests, modernize build chains, and bridge the gap between low-level Linux detail and large-scale orchestration.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Technikum Mechatroniczne Nr 1
Polish, German, English
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Github Skills (58)
monitoring10
azuread10
kubernetes10
debug10
container10
docker10
webhooks10
testing10
lifecycle10
storage10
bash10
time-series10
microsoft-azure10
ignition10
dockers10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-aws
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Kubernetes Cluster API Provider AWS provides consistent deployment and day 2 operations of "self-managed" and EKS Kubernetes clusters on AWS.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:90 reviews, 17 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mateusz primarily focused on improving the AWS Cluster API Provider's functionality and maintainability. Their contributions include optimizing shell scripts, improving code formatting, and removing verbose logging for cleaner test outputs. They also implemented new features, such as adding an S3Bucket field to the AWSClusterSpec and integrating Ignition support for bootstrapping systems. The user's work spanned across multiple areas, including code changes, test improvements, and infrastructure configurations.
clustersprovider-apidayk8s-sig-cluster-lifecycleself-managed
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:99 reviews, 17 commits, 9 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Mateusz primarily focused on improving the codebase and addressing potential issues within the Azure provider for Kubernetes. Their work included fixing bootstrap extension command errors, correcting typos, and updating the compute API version. Furthermore, the user refactored and added new fields related to image handling, specifically for Azure Compute Gallery support. The contributions demonstrate expertise in Azure-specific configurations and Kubernetes-related functionalities.
apicluster-apik8s-sig-cluster-lifecyclek8s-provider-azuremicrosoft-azure
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