Paweł Żak
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPaweł Żak is a Staff Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, scalable Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platforms and integrations from Warsaw. He combines hands-on backend development with technical leadership, shaping integration layers, reusable BaaS features, and cross-functional delivery for tier‑1 banks and fintechs. Paweł has driven greenfield architectures, pre-sales technical strategy, and high-stakes client engagements while mentoring multiple teams and improving developer workflows. His open-source contributions include security and cross-platform fixes to the widely used Telegraf metrics agent, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and observability. Equally comfortable in code and stakeholder rooms, he blends engineering rigor with a knack for translating business needs into sustainable technical solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Inżynier (Inż.) Inżynieria oprogramowania, Inżynier (Inż.) Inżynieria oprogramowania at Warsaw University of Technology
Github Skills (5)
dependency-management10
debug10
go10
testing9
security9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/telegraf
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:498 reviews, 109 commits, 251 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paweł's commits focus on improving the functionality and security of the Telegraf agent. The changes include addressing vulnerabilities identified by a BDBA scan by updating dependencies in go.mod files. Additionally, the user fixed bugs found during a LGTM analysis by modifying configurations of several plugins and included the adding of a new field in ethtool plugin. The user also worked on fixing tests across Windows operating systems.
agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf
zak-pawel/telegraf
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.
Contributions:158 pushes, 91 branches in 1 year 2 months
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