Paweł Gronowski
Software Engineer at Docker, Inc
Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPaweł Gronowski is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working on Docker's Runtime team and maintaining core open-source projects like Docker Engine (moby) and BuildKit. He combines deep systems and backend expertise—container runtimes, image distribution, and CLI tooling—with practical DevOps and release management skills, evidenced by stewardship of docker-install and frequent fixes across containerd and docker-py. Comfortable in C/C++, Go, and Python, he has a track record of improving test robustness, dependency upgrades, and handling subtle issues like console sizing, HTTP fallback behavior, and timestamp conversions. His background includes building interprocess event buses, CI/CD for game servers, and managing production LXC environments, showing both low-level debugging chops and production-oriented automation. Based in Poland, Paweł is a pragmatic maintainer who focuses on reliability and developer ergonomics across widely used container infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier (Inż.), Informatyka, Inżynier (Inż.), Informatyka at Politechnika Łódzka
Polish, English
Github Skills (47)
docker10
buildkite10
python10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
command-line-interface10
stat10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
docker-engine10
docker-api10
release-management10
occi10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
docker/docker-install
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025
Docker installation script
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:31 reviews, 41 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Paweł's primary contribution focuses on managing the Docker installation script's versioning and release process. They consistently updated the `rootless-install.sh` script with new Docker versions and release candidates. They also added spacing to prevent merge conflicts and removed unnecessary code. This demonstrates a strong focus on maintaining and updating the installation script for various Docker releases.
installation-scriptinstallationdockerdocker-installation
docker/cli
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The Docker CLI
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:731 reviews, 5 commits, 314 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Paweł primarily contributed to the Docker CLI project by addressing container-related functionalities. They modified the code to handle console sizes during container creation and exec processes, ensuring proper terminal dimensions. The user also updated vendor dependencies and addressed a race condition in container removal tests. Further, the user fixed the handling of the DOCKER_BUILDKIT environment variable and added a platform switch to the push command.
dockerdocker-clicli
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