Matt Kucia is an Infrastructure Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native and embedded systems across telco, automotive, and fintech domains. He blends hands-on backend development in Python and C# with infrastructure automation using Ansible and Terraform, and is comfortable operating containers, Kubernetes, AWS and Azure. His career spans SRE and DevOps roles at companies like Motional, Samsung, and Affinidi, plus leadership experience running a DevEx team and platform work for backup products. An active contributor to OpenStack Nova, he’s refactored libvirt VM device management code to improve maintainability—an indicator of his low-level systems understanding that complements his cloud expertise. Based in Krakow, he pairs engineering depth with ongoing learning, holding engineering degrees in electrical engineering and automatics/robotics.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
technical high school electronics technician, technical high school electronics technician at Zespół Szkół Łączności w Krakowie
Master of Engineering - MEng Engineering and Management of Industrial Processes, Master of Engineering - MEng Engineering and Management of Industrial Processes at AGH University of Krakow
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions focused on refactoring the `libvirt` driver within the OpenStack Nova compute service. They extracted several methods related to virtual machine device management, including adding memory balloons, video devices, watchdog actions, spice channels, and PCI devices. These refactorings aimed to improve code organization and maintainability within the `libvirt` integration for managing virtual machines. The commits are all associated with the same partial bug report.
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
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Matt Kucia - Infrastructure Engineer at Undisclosed Fintech