Michal Checinski
Senior Build Release Engineer at Bitwarden
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMichal Checinski is a Senior Build Release Engineer and Azure cloud architect with a decade of engineering experience and over six years focused on cloud, DevOps, and CI/CD across startups, consulting, and product teams. He designs and automates resilient Azure infrastructure using IaC (Bicep, Terraform, Ansible) and pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), and builds practical tooling in .NET, Python, and Bash to streamline deployments and migrations. At Bitwarden he improved reliability of build and deployment workflows and authored a repeatable .NET-based database migration utility with retry and dry-run modes, reflecting a pragmatic approach to production risk. Comfortable both architecting cloud solutions and shipping low-level automation, he blends hands-on implementation with system-level thinking. Based in Warsaw, he brings a track record of translating complex operational needs into auditable, repeatable delivery processes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Magister (Mgr) Informatyka stosowana, Magister (Mgr) Informatyka stosowana at Warsaw University of Technology
Polish, English
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Github Skills (19)
database-migrations10
net10
cicd10
asp-net10
sql10
dotnet-core10
database-migration10
csharp10
dotnet9
dockers9
docker9
microsoft-extensions-logging8
dotnet-new8
macos6
notarize6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
bitwarden/server
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 reviews, 13 commits, 75 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michal's primary contributions involved enhancing the Bitwarden server infrastructure, specifically related to database migrations and the deployment process. They implemented a utility for migrating the database using .NET, including retry mechanisms and dry-run functionality. Additionally, they focused on the CI/CD pipeline, adding repeatable migration scripts and modifying the build and deployment processes, thus improving reliability and functionality. They were involved with creating Dockerfiles and build scripts.
database-apisql-serverdockersignalrdatabase
michalchecinski/load-balancer
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Load balancer written in ASP.NET Core with ASP.NET Core MVC app for metrics and logs
Contributions:77 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
asp-net-coreaspnetcoredockerload-balancer
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