Paweł Winogrodzki
Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaweł Winogrodzki is a Senior Software Development Engineer with a decade of experience building and securing cloud OS infrastructure for Microsoft Azure, based in Bellevue, WA. He maintains the microsoft/azurelinux distribution used by first-party Azure services and edge appliances, focusing on build/test infrastructure, patching security vulnerabilities, and certificate validation. Paweł has driven measurable reliability improvements—cutting package release delays from days to under 24 hours, adding livepatching, and expanding test coverage—while upgrading build tooling and pipelines in Go, Python and Bash. He mentors junior engineers and collaborates closely with service teams to tailor Azure Linux for production needs. His background combines strong academic performance from Politechnika Poznańska and practical systems experience dating back to device and protocol work early in his career, giving him a rare blend of low-level performance tuning and large-scale DevOps acumen.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Informatyka, 4.78/5.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Informatyka, 4.78/5.0 at Politechnika PoznańskaInfotech - Erasmus exchange student, Infotech - Erasmus exchange student at Universität Stuttgart
Polish, English, German
Github Skills (8)
security10
script10
bash10
patch10
automated-build10
automation9
automations9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 5766 reviews, 507 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paweł primarily focused on maintaining and improving the build and test infrastructure for the `microsoft/azurelinux` repository. Their contributions include fixing security vulnerabilities by applying patches to the software, integrating security best practices by validating the structure of certificates used for verification, and enhancing the build process by incorporating support for multiple package cache inputs and adding a toolchain build. Furthermore, the user contributed to the overall system configuration via updates to the network configurations. Their work focused on improving the security and maintainability of the build processes and image generation.
cdrappliancesvmslinux-oslinux
microsoft/CBL-MarinerCoreUI
Dec 2020 - Apr 2022
Minimal set of UI packages.
Contributions:2 releases, 31 reviews, 81 commits in 1 year 4 months
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