Merritt Krakowitzer
Head Of Platform Engineering And Gaming Infrastructure
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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SeniorMerritt Krakowitzer is a seasoned platform engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and operating high-availability infrastructure, currently heading Platform Engineering and Gaming Infrastructure at Allwyn Lottery Solutions in Dublin. He has progressed through hands-on roles from UNIX manager and systems engineer to Lead DevOps and Platform Engineering Manager, giving him deep operational experience across Solaris/Linux, clustering and backup technologies. Merritt specializes in scaling resilient systems for mission-critical services—historically responsible for multi-hundred server estates and five-nines uptime targets. He combines technical craftsmanship with team leadership, turning legacy operational environments into platform-driven delivery engines for gaming and lottery products. Based in Ireland, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to reliability, automation and observability. A detail that often goes unnoticed: his career path reflects long tenures of progressively broader scope, signaling both deep technical chops and durable operational stewardship.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
camelotls/actions-thycotic-ss-integration
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
actions-thycotic-ss-integration
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 2 PRs in 2 years 9 months
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mkrakowitzer/actions-ghsettings
May 2020 - Mar 2022
A GitHub Action for managing repositories and GitHub organisations
Contributions:7 releases, 18 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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