Pawel Suwala
Head Of Reliability Testing Department at TekLager
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolPawel Suwala is a seasoned software leader with 11+ years building reliable, high-performance web and cloud systems, currently heading the Reliability Testing department at Grafana Labs. He led k6 from startup CTO to a core Grafana Cloud product, blending hands-on engineering with strategic product and team building across distributed engineering offices. Pawel excels in performance testing, scalable architecture, and DevOps pipelines, having shipped everything from high-frequency trading platforms to peer-to-peer lending systems. He is pragmatic about quality—advocating code reviews, continuous delivery, and measurable monitoring—and contributes to k6 documentation and stability work such as Sentry integration. A founder at heart, he also runs an electronics e-commerce venture in Scandinavia and has real-world experience recruiting and scaling engineering teams globally. Trained in software engineering and management at Linköping University, he combines startup grit with production-grade operational discipline.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master programme Software Engineering and Management, Master programme Software Engineering and Management at Linköping UniversityBachelor in Science Computer Science; database technologies, Bachelor in Science Computer Science; database technologies at Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
English, Polish
Github Skills (5)
devops10
gatsby10
documentation9
javascript9
performance-testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/k6-docs
May 2020 - Oct 2022
The k6 documentation website.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 16 reviews, 42 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pawel's contributions primarily focus on integrating and configuring Sentry.io for error tracking and implementing related configurations within the `gatsby-config.js` file. They also fixed an issue with a code block and merged a branch. Furthermore, they addressed an issue concerning URL for an extension in a documentation file. These changes indicate the user is involved in improving the stability, monitoring, and documentation of the k6-docs project.
documentation-websitedevopsreliability-engineeringkubernetesperformance-testing
grafana/k6-jslib-expect
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
`expect` provides a different syntax for specifying expectations.
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
expectationsk6
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