Michał Poręba
Principal Data Engineer
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichał Poręba is a Principal Data Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building resilient data platforms, leading database teams, and shaping data architecture across both private sector scale-ups and UK government departments. He combines deep SQL Server and DBA expertise with systems and architectural thinking—recently applying knowledge graphs, federation and decentralisation to complex global supply-chain problems in the Civil Service. A pragmatic technical leader and coach, he has reduced major production outages, built multi-site failover clusters, and guided teams through domain-driven designs and microservices at scale. Michał remains a practitioner—contributing PowerShell/Pester tests and T-SQL improvements to open-source tooling—while mentoring rising talent and influencing cross-government data strategy. Based in Swansea, he pairs user-centric design with lean and agile delivery, seeking evolutionary architectures that balance practicality with long-term sustainability. An unusual mix of musical training (bassoon) and technical depth gives him a distinctive perspective on collaboration and disciplined craft.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Swansea UniversityBassoon, Bassoon at Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie
English, Polish, Welsh, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
testing10
powershell10
sql-server10
pester10
database-administration10
database9
databases9
sql8
javascript6
orchard-cms6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbachecks
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
✔ SQL Server Environmental Validation
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:34 commits, 22 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michał primarily focused on integration testing for database checks within the `dbachecks` repository. Their contributions involved writing PowerShell scripts using the Pester testing framework to validate SQL Server database configurations, specifically collation settings and database owners. They refactored the test structure, moving test database creation functions and implementing tests across multiple SQL Server instances. The user also added tests using T-SQL to collect database configuration details, improving testing efficiency.
dbatoolssqlserverdbasql-servervalidation
michalporeba/flutter-state-show
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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