Pawel Gdula
Senior Staff System Architect at Optimizely
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPawel Gdula is a Senior Staff System Architect based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and evolving data-intensive, distributed systems across startups and larger organisations. He combines deep backend engineering (Java, Spring, Kafka, Hadoop, ElasticSearch) with technical leadership—shaping architecture, cross-team standards, monitoring/logging platforms, and migration blueprints from monoliths to microservices. Pawel has led backend teams and owned end-to-end platform reliability and developer experience improvements, driving measurable operational and delivery gains. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a people lead, he repeatedly translates business-driven requirements into scalable architectures and engineering OKRs. A pragmatic systems thinker, he’s as interested in organizational dynamics as in system design, often steering RFCs, conventions, and platform blueprints that outlast individual projects.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Database systems, Database systems at Politechnika Poznańskamaster, Computer physic, master, Computer physic at Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie
Github Skills (58)
netflix10
kibana10
elastic10
visualizations10
observability9
java9
spring9
ribbon9
netflix-zuul9
spring-boot9
points9
feign9
netflix-eureka9
elasticsearch9
spring-cloud8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gdulus/beholder
May 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 release, 116 commits, 96 pushes in 9 months
paulsecret/grails-fsm-plugin
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
finite-statefinite-state-machinedomainbehaviourfinite
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