Paweł Bojanowski
Software Engineer at Redpanda Data
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPaweł Bojanowski is a software engineer with a decade of experience building Go-based cloud-native systems, specializing in Kubernetes controllers, multi-cluster management, and container runtime extensions. He has led development of vCluster and related platform features, shaving 40% off memory use through targeted profiling and shipping integrations like Istio and standalone vCluster releases. His background includes implementing Virtual Kubelet variants, custom autoscalers, schedulers, admission webhooks and CI-driven metrics adapters, showing a strong mix of systems design and developer-facing UX improvements. A regular speaker at cloud-native events, he combines production-grade engineering with hands-on open-source contributions to projects such as loft-sh/vcluster. Based in Warsaw, he brings both product-focused leadership and low-level runtime expertise to multi-tenant and fleet management challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bachelor's degree, College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences at University of Warsaw
Polish, English
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
helm10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
kubectl9
cloud-infrastructure9
go9
infrastructure9
dockers7
docker7
multitenancy6
multi-tenant6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
loft-sh/vcluster
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:63 reviews, 45 PRs, 11 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Paweł primarily focused on improving the vcluster's operational aspects, particularly related to creating and managing virtual Kubernetes clusters. They addressed a bug in the connect command, ensuring correct logging behavior. They also added functionality, including a flag for CA certificates. Additionally, the user enhanced the user experience by adding more informative messages and automating certain tasks related to cluster creation and access.
clustershelmvclusterk8scheaper
elotl/kip
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Virtual-kubelet provider running pods in cloud instances
Contributions:59 reviews, 141 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year
instancesprovidervirtual-kubeletkuberneteskubelet
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