Summary
Mikołaj Niedbała is an Engineering Manager at Snowflake with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes platforms. He progressed from Linux and monitoring roles into DevOps leadership, driving Terraform, Helm, Ansible and IaC practices for ML/NLP microservices and high-availability environments across AWS, Azure and OpenShift. Known for blending systems engineering with developer empathy, he has a track record of improving developer experience and onboarding complex applications at scale. His background includes deep operational work—Zabbix, Redis, MySQL tuning and load-balancing—paired with production coding in Python and Go. Outside work he applies a multidisciplinary curiosity to photography and storytelling, reflecting a creative approach to problem solving that surfaces in pragmatic, well-documented solutions.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Polish, English, German