Michał Jakóbczyk is a Senior Go developer with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native systems from Katowice, Poland. He specializes in Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), API exposure and reliable upgrade/install flows, with hands-on DevOps work improving test suites and lifecycle automation for the notable Kyma open-source project. Comfortable moving between engineering and facilitation, he has held Scrum Master responsibilities and driven recruitment and onboarding efforts in large teams. His background spans backend systems in Go and Java, container orchestration, and practical firmware-to-cloud projects from his internship work, showing a rare comfort across hardware, infrastructure and application layers. Now freelancing, he focuses on delivering resilient cloud software and automated upgrade/testing pipelines for enterprise-grade deployments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Magister (Mgr), Informatyka, Magister (Mgr), Informatyka at Politechnika Śląska w Gliwicach
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:180 reviews, 28 commits, 37 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michał's contributions center on improving the Kyma project's infrastructure and testing processes. They focused on resetting Istio proxy configurations by modifying shell scripts and managing pod lifecycle events. The user also introduced and refined a comprehensive upgrade test suite, including pre and post-upgrade testing phases, while improving the testing framework and related scripts. Additionally, they made updates to the apiserver-proxy tests for security purposes and removed cert-manager configurations.
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Michał Jakóbczyk - Senior Go Developer at Freelancer