Paweł Kowalak
Senior Software Engineer at Alpaca
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolPaweł Kowalak is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and microservices, currently focused on Go and Kubernetes. He began as a Linux ops and networking specialist, which gives him deep DevOps instincts and a practical edge when designing resilient production architectures. Paweł has led end-to-end projects—from k8s-native image scanning and audit-log analytics pipelines to reconciliation loops and integrations—combining Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres and cloud platforms to solve tricky observability and security problems. He favors strong typing and performance-minded engineering, having transitioned from Perl/Python to Go where he now drives architecture and implementation. Comfortable wearing many hats (sysadmin, team lead, recruiter), he prioritizes building systems that are both innovative and genuinely useful for users. An enthusiast of distributed computing and robotics, he often tackles hard infrastructure challenges that sit between networking, security and data engineering.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
dropout IT, dropout IT at West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin
Polish, English
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Github Skills (152)
timeseries-database10
programming-language10
go-language10
websocket10
proto10
monitoring10
golang10
versioning10
rust10
dependency-injection10
scalable10
database10
grpc10
cors10
rpc10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
viru/berrybot
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:14 PRs, 64 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
raspberry-pibotgrpcremotelyraspberrypi
pawelkowalak/monkeypatching.com
Jul 2016 - Jul 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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