Pawel Kozlowski
Chief Of Operations And Process Shepherd
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPawel Kozlowski is a technology-minded operations leader with 13 years of experience blending software engineering and organizational design to scale a 50+ person, employee-owned IT company from Krakow. As Chief of Operations and Process Shepherd at u2i he moved from hands-on technical roles into COO responsibilities, designing transparent compensation and profit-sharing models, enabling cross-border collaboration for 40+ freelancers, and steering an Agile transformation. He pairs deep technical chops—contributions to the Chef Infra project and experience across Ruby on Rails, Node.js and DevOps—with a talent for cultivating trust, autonomy, and self-organized teams. Pawel’s uncommon strength is translating low-level engineering constraints into legal, financial and people-focused processes that actually make distributed product teams more effective. He also mentors engineers’ career growth and has directly shaped sales, finance and HR decisions while keeping day-to-day operations running smoothly.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie
English, German
Github Skills (13)
chef-client10
git10
automation10
chef-solo10
infrastructure10
cgm10
automations10
devops10
ruby10
rspec9
command-line-interface8
cli8
command-line8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Pawel primarily contributed to the Chef Infra project by refactoring and enhancing the `git` provider within the Chef infrastructure automation platform. Their work focused on improving the `setup_remote_tracking_branches` method, ensuring compatibility, and streamlining the handling of remote URLs. They also implemented various tests to validate the functionality, and made changes for the correct handling of remote branches for the origin remote. These changes collectively improve how Chef interacts with Git repositories for infrastructure configuration.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
khozlov/perficio
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 8 PRs, 43 pushes in 4 months
nodejsachievementnodenode-app
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