Michał Kurzeja
Software Engineer at The Swarm
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolMichał Kurzeja is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who specializes in building high-performance, cloud-native systems—particularly in Go—having moved from PHP/Symfony monoliths to a microservices architecture handling 100k+ req/s. He combines deep practical knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana) with hands-on experience in MySQL/Postgres and CI/CD pipelines. Michał has led teams and projects, balancing architecture and delivery while tackling distributed systems challenges in AWS, GCS and other clouds. He’s applied machine learning pragmatically to solve business problems and prefers to keep Go as his primary language due to its performance and long-term potential. Based in Krakow, he enjoys learning new technologies and is known for writing elegant, maintainable code that’s optimized for speed and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
AGH University
Polish, English
Github Skills (73)
bundle9
stream9
backend9
php9
symfony-bundle9
pipe9
symfony9
php-framework8
assetic8
producer8
admin8
http-api7
golang7
di-container7
symfony-form7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
michalkurzeja/godi
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
A DI container with minimal boilerplate and maintenance.
Contributions:23 releases, 54 PRs, 56 pushes in 2 years 3 months
maintenancedockerboilerplatedi-container
michalkurzeja/go-clock
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
A small package that offers testable time functions.
Contributions:5 releases, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 6 months
testable
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