Paul Podgorsek
Founder at Le Food Link
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Podgorsek is a founder and seasoned solutions/enterprise architect with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, event-driven platforms and SaaS products for hospitality, retail and global wholesale. He excels at translating business needs into long-term technical strategy, having led multi-country architectures, modernised legacy POS systems, and delivered an event-driven platform at PureGym that cut estimated cloud costs by over £1M. Equally comfortable with board-level discussions and hands-on DevOps, Paul has implemented automated provisioning, infrastructure-as-code, and testing improvements—including parallel Robot Framework testing in Docker—to boost delivery quality and reduce operational friction. He thrives on complex discovery work that balances documenting existing capabilities with defining future-state designs and pragmatic tool choices to minimise spend. A natural collaborator and mentor, he runs workshops with business owners to shape meaningful product strategy and has repeatedly turned cross-disciplinary insights (from GDPR to deployment) into tangible product and cost-saving outcomes. Based in Stony Stratford, Paul combines entrepreneurial grit with a track record of guiding 60‑engineer teams and shipping practical, secure solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineering for Internet, Master's degree, Software Engineering for Internet at Faculté des Sciences Jean Perrin, Lens
French, English
Stackoverflow
2,491reputation
288kreached
34answers
7questions
gradle
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
docker10
testing10
browser10
dockers10
automation10
robotframework10
automations10
selenium9
cicd9
selenium-ide9
gradle9
bash8
tomcat6
jenkins6
eclipse6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ppodgorsek/docker-robot-framework
Sep 2016 - Sep 2022
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:26 releases, 37 reviews, 485 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing the project's testing capabilities and infrastructure, including the addition of parallel test execution and support for the Browser library. They implemented changes to the testing scripts, specifically involving the Robot Framework, by updating the command-line options and integrating Pabot for parallel execution. Furthermore, the user addressed issues, such as fixing test failures related to redirection, and adding support for the Browser library. They also introduced features like flexible test and report directory mounting.
firefoxbrowserrobot-frameworkrobotframeworkdocker
ppodgorsek/spring-social-facebook
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Facebook API binding and connect support.
Contributions:3 releases, 71 commits, 47 PRs in 11 months
apifacebookspringfacebook-apiapi-binding
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