Michal Nowikowski
Software Engineer at Graphcore
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMichal Nowikowski is a seasoned software engineer with 15+ years building and scaling complex distributed systems, from automated testing farms of thousands of nodes to 500-machine build farms and IPAM/DHCP management tools. Currently focused on AI cloud engineering at Graphcore, he enables IPU integration into Kubernetes and OpenStack and designs ML inference platforms and CD pipelines. His background blends low-level graphics and driver development (OpenGL/GLSL) with large-scale networking and telecom protocol work (UMTS, WiMAX), giving him rare cross-domain expertise. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced widely used projects such as Scapy and Kea, improving DHCP/IPv6 capabilities and benchmarking logic. Known for designing reproducible CI/CD and developer workflows, he often combines practical automation with thoughtful process improvements that cut test times and increase platform throughput.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Computer Science, Msc, Computer Science at Technical University of GdanskProject Management, Project Management at GFKM
English, Polish
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Github Skills (43)
c-language10
static-analysis10
packet-injection10
python10
scapy10
testing10
packet10
software-quality10
lint10
linter10
dhcp10
network-security10
linting10
cprogramming-language10
network-analysis9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
isc-projects/kea
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
A modern, scalable, robust DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server, with database (MySQL, PostgreSQL), hooks, multi-threading, RADIUS, NETCONF, Kerberos and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:308 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michal made several changes to the perfdhcp benchmarking tool within the Kea project. Their work included improvements to the avalanche scenario, such as adding IPv6 support and fixing retransmission logic. They also refactored and cleaned up code, including replacing assertions with exceptions and making performance-related adjustments to the main loop for CPU efficiency. Additionaly, the user updated the installation of the freeradius-client in hammer.py.
multi-threadingdhcpv6dhcpddhcpv4ipv4-address
secdev/scapy
Dec 2018 - Dec 2020
Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Michal primarily contributed to the Scapy library by adding support for various DHCP and DHCPv6 options, enhancing the library's capabilities in network packet manipulation. They also addressed issues by fixing tracing errors and resolving failing unit tests related to DHCP functionalities. Furthermore, the user demonstrated expertise in testing by fixing specific test cases, indicating their role in ensuring the quality and reliability of the library.
pythonpython2manipulationsecurity-toolsscapy
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