Paweł Żak
Technical Leader Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolPaweł Żak is a Technical Leader and Senior Software Engineer based in Gdańsk with 18+ years of experience delivering telemetry, observability, and systems software for enterprise and edge platforms. At Intel he leads Telemetry Enabling engineering, upstreaming production-grade Go plugins into prominent open-source collectors like Telegraf (where he is a maintainer and InfluxData awardee) to expose IA platform features for Xeon families and containerized cloud/edge deployments. He blends low-level systems expertise—storage device monitoring (NVMe/SMART), Intel RDT/RAS, and real-time kernel troubleshooting—with service-level design, security lifecycle compliance, and cloud-native packaging. Earlier roles span Java EE and database-heavy persistence work for rack-scale and network management products, reflecting strong cross-stack fluency from embedded C/C++ to Go and Java. Known for turning platform telemetry needs into robust, upstreamed collector plugins, he pairs hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership and a knack for making hard observability problems actionable.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informatics, Geoinformatics, Master's degree, Informatics, Geoinformatics at Gdańsk University of TechnologyExtended English Education Class, Extended English Education Class at Secondary School No. 1 in Bydgoszcz
English, Polish
Github Skills (10)
golang10
monitoring10
telegraf10
go10
nvme10
metric10
influxdb9
linux9
system-administration8
bash7
Programming languages (3)
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 & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:154 reviews, 12 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paweł's commits primarily focused on enhancing the `smart` plugin within the `telegraf` repository. They added NVMe attribute support by modifying the `smart.go` file, demonstrating expertise in storage device monitoring and configuration. Further contributions involved developing and integrating plugins for other technologies such as Intel RDT and RAS, which indicates strong knowledge of system-level programming and data collection. These changes suggest a focus on expanding the plugin's data gathering capabilities and improving monitoring functionality.
agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf
p-zak/telegraf
Sep 2020 - Dec 2023
The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.
Contributions:6 PRs, 45 pushes, 27 branches in 3 years 3 months
snmpagentreportingcollectingagent-server
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