Milan Plžík
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Bratislava, Region of Bratislava, Slovakia
Summary
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Top SchoolMilan Plžík is a Senior Software Engineer and Site Reliability specialist based in Bratislava with 26 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems. He brings deep SRE and infrastructure expertise from roles at Grafana Labs and Google, with hands-on work automating GCP deployments, incident response, and improving Kubernetes tooling. Milan has contributed to prominent open-source projects such as Grafana's Tanka and jsonnet-libs, adding practical CLI features (tk delete), kubectl overrides, and API/permission upgrades that stabilize Kubernetes deployments. He led migrations and monorepo consolidations, replacing fragile shell scripts with maintainable Python and training on-call teams through real production incidents. With a master's and PhD background in computer science, he combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic operational experience. Colleagues value him for turning brittle infrastructure into reliable, automatable platforms and for quietly improving tooling that teams depend on.
26 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
English, German
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
cicd10
go10
jsonnet10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
cli10
observability9
configuration-management9
configuration-file9
prometheus9
configurations9
docker8
dockers8
rbac8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/jsonnet-libs
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Grafana Labs' Jsonnet libraries
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 24 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Milan primarily focused on maintaining and upgrading the infrastructure and dependencies of the project. They removed deprecated RBAC APIs and updated Ingress API versions. Furthermore, they upgraded and downgraded the kube-state-metrics version while also fixing its permissions. The user also updated the watch container image and configured security contexts.
monorepoobservabilityjsonnetprometheusgrafana
grafana/tanka
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
Flexible, reusable and concise configuration for Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Milan primarily focused on improving the functionality of the `tanka` CLI tool. Their contributions included implementing the `tk delete` command, allowing for the removal of resources from the Kubernetes cluster. They also enhanced the tool by enabling the use of an environment variable (`TANKA_KUBECTL_PATH`) to override the `kubectl` path, increasing flexibility. Additionally, the user worked on sorting and ordering Kubernetes objects to be deleted for stability and efficiency.
cuelangconfigurationkubernetes-deploymentnoyamlk8s
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