Michal Flendrich
Software Team Lead at ScyllaDB
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Flendrich is a seasoned software leader and platform engineer with a decade of professional experience and 15 years of delivery-oriented engineering background. Currently a Software Team Lead at ScyllaDB, he previously built and led Kong’s global Kubernetes team, blending hands-on Kubernetes networking work with cross-team product and customer engagement. He has deep expertise in cloud-native systems, ingress controllers and GitOps, and is an active contributor to prominent open-source projects such as Kong’s ingress controller and decK configuration tooling. Michal’s background spans Google-scale CI and SRE work to designing a production Kubernetes platform for a bank, showing a rare mix of large-scale automation and regulated-industry pragmatism. Known for refactoring and hardening critical components (e.g., webhook/admission logic, workspace client immutability and drift detection fixes), he focuses on maintainability and operational resilience. Based in Lower Silesia, Poland, he combines technical leadership, hiring experience, and a track record of translating complex customer needs into robust platform solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Wroclaw
Polish, German, English
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
ingress-controller10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
configuration-management10
bash10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
kong10
api-design9
dependency-management9
networking9
automation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
:gorilla: Kong for Kubernetes: The official Ingress Controller for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 745 reviews, 208 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michal focused on refactoring and implementing features related to the admission server, likely within the Kong for Kubernetes Ingress Controller. Their work involved making admission server tests table-driven, supporting v1 webhook API, adding a timeout to the initial connection to Kong, and implementing extensions->networking v1beta1 conversions. They also implemented improvements in the store and parsing modules.
ingress-controllerkongkuberneteskubernetes-ingressingress
Kong/deck
Sep 2020 - May 2021
decK: Configuration management and drift detection for Kong
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:199 reviews, 14 commits, 54 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Michal primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `deck` configuration management tool. Their contributions involved making KongClientConfigs immutable and clarifying the distinction between root and workspace clients. They also optimized the workspaceExists mechanism and addressed a file extension matching issue. The user also fixed a critical omission in the ping operation.
configuration-managementkongdeclarative-configsyncdiff
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