Michał Stachowski
Senior DevOps Engineer at Nike
Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichał Stachowski is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and operating platforms across Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and Amazon EKS. He combines deep Linux systems administration and Golang skills to deliver resilient IaC and production-grade Kafka integrations for large enterprises like Nike and Intel. At Intel he worked on performance-sensitive storage and networking solutions (NVMeoF, Optane) and helped migrate Java workloads to OpenShift, demonstrating both low-level systems expertise and platform modernization experience. An active contributor to the rkt container project, he improved kvm tooling, fixed lkvm deadlocks, and hardened build processes—evidence of his practical systems-level problem solving in open source. Based in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, he blends hands-on engineering with a methodical, measurement-driven approach rooted in his econometrics and IT background. He’s known for tackling subtle performance and concurrency issues that often lurk beneath cloud abstractions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Econometrics and IT, 4.5/B+, Bachelor’s Degree, Econometrics and IT, 4.5/B+ at Gdańsk University of TechnologyEngineer’s Degree, Information Technology, 4.5, Engineer’s Degree, Information Technology, 4.5 at Polsko-Japońska Wyższa Szkoła Technik Komputerowych w Warszawie
Polish, English
Github Skills (13)
kvm10
container10
go10
scripting9
automation9
automations9
build-system9
shell9
script9
sh9
occi8
linux-kernel7
systemd7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rkt/rkt
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
[Project ended] rkt is a pod-native container engine for Linux. It is composable, secure, and built on standards.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Systems Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Systems EngineerContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 62 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily contributed to the rkt project by addressing system-level issues, improving build processes, and enhancing the capabilities of the rkt-kvm flavor. Their work included fixing a deadlock issue within the lkvm, optimizing lkvm performance, and adding support for custom permissions and capabilities within mounted volumes for the kvm environment. Furthermore, the user significantly improved the build script, making it more robust and feature-rich for developers.
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squall0gd/acadia
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:50 PRs, 81 pushes, 26 branches in 6 months
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