Paul Czarkowski
Senior Principal, Cloud Services Black Belt At Red Hat
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Czarkowski is a seasoned cloud and DevOps leader with 13+ years building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently a Senior Principal Cloud Services Black Belt at Red Hat. He combines hands-on engineering with team and technology leadership, having architected high-availability systems, led massive datacenter rollouts (6,000+ servers), and launched SWTOR to over 2M players with no major downtime. A proven SRE/automation advocate, he has built managed OpenStack and OpenShift products, created installable behind-firewall tooling, and contributed code to prominent open-source projects like Logstash. His expertise spans configuration management, CI/CD, observability, and platform automation—Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, ELK and more—plus deep operational experience with Perforce at enormous scale. He mentors teams to remove bottlenecks and increase repeatability, and quietly publishes reusable Vagrant/juju artifacts and production-grade telemetry platforms that have been adopted by peers and vendors. Based in Austin, he blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for turning complex, internet-scale ops challenges into maintainable, behind-the-scenes infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Github Skills (33)
content-management-system10
hugo10
amazon-elasticsearch10
css10
java10
javas10
chef-client10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
content-management10
html10
elasticsearch10
chef-solo10
logging10
jruby10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
lusis/chef-logstash
Aug 2013 - Sep 2015
Semi-official Logstash cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:177 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions focused on maintaining and improving the Logstash cookbook. They made changes to recipes related to agent and server configurations, including adjustments to systemd service files. Additionally, they updated runit service templates and upstart configurations and added test support. The work indicates a focus on configuring and automating the deployment and management of Logstash.
cookbooksemilogstashelasticsearchchef-resource
vmware-tanzu/tanzu-dev-portal
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Content for Tanzu dev portal
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 263 commits, 232 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the Tanzu dev portal project by modifying the front-end and integrating back-end functionality, specifically related to displaying and managing episodes. The commits show changes to HTML layouts and partials, indicating UI adjustments and presentation updates. Furthermore, they made changes to the back-end data population. Their work included implementing features for video embedding, playlist integration, and automation for adding new episodes, indicating a focus on a dynamic content experience.
cmsdevdev-portalsap-hanatanzu
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