Paweł Mendelski
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolPaweł Mendelski is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver high-traffic, cloud-native systems; he led homepage and CMS initiatives at Allegro and now contributes to Kubernetes autoscaling at Google. He blends deep backend expertise in Kotlin and Java with pragmatic multi-language fluency (Rust, Go, Node.js, JS/TS) and a preference for choosing the right tool for the job. Paweł is strong on architecture and operational thinking—designing microservices, improving deployability and reducing costs—and has a track record of shipping revenue-impacting features. His open-source contributions to the widely used Kubernetes autoscaler include parallel scale-up and async node-group creation work that improved performance and scalability. Trained both in computer science (MSc) and finance, he brings analytical rigor and a business-minded approach to engineering trade-offs.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, A, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, A at Poznan University of TechnologyAccounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance at University of Economics in Poznan
Polish, English
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/autoscaler
Apr 2023 - Jun 2026
Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 14 PRs, 25 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Paweł primarily contributed to the core logic of the Kubernetes autoscaler, focusing on the implementation and testing of features related to scaling up node groups. Their work involved modifying the orchestrator to handle parallel scale-up operations, refactoring test setups for better code reuse, and adding asynchronous node group creation functionality. Further contributions included addressing limits on total nodes and overall performance optimizations.
autoscalingkubernetes
coditory/gradle-integration-test-plugin
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Gradle plugin with integrationTest task
Contributions:8 reviews, 81 commits, 32 PRs in 3 years 11 months
gradle-plugingradleintegration-testingtesting
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