Mikołaj Umański
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMikołaj Umański is a software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, currently focusing on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) at Microsoft where he drives node provisioning, automatic remediation, and cluster lifecycle tooling. He brings production-grade expertise in Go, Kubernetes, and Azure from roles at Microsoft, TikTok (ByteDance), and internships at Goldman Sachs. Notable open-source contributions include work on Azure/AgentBaker, optimizing VHD image builds, cloud-init customizations, and systemd-driven certificate and CA trust automation for scalable Kubernetes agent nodes. Based in Seattle, he combines deep platform engineering with a pragmatic DevOps mindset, regularly bridging low-level OS customization and high-level cloud orchestration.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology
English, Polish
Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
docker10
cloud-init10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
systemd10
cloud-services10
k8s10
osdev9
vhd9
agent9
vhdx9
macos9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/AgentBaker
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:2 releases, 342 reviews, 48 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mikołaj primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of Kubernetes agent nodes within the Azure environment. Their work included modifying cloud-init scripts for OS customization, implementing systemd units for certificate updates, and integrating custom CA trust configurations. They also focused on containerization, including adjusting container log sizes and optimizing the VHD image building process through packer scripts and associated testing.
provisioningvhdagentcloud-initaiming
UtheMan/Pin-em-All
Sep 2016 - May 2019
Simple Chrome extension which makes mass tab pinning easier
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
chrome-extensionmasspinningchrome
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