Peter Swica
Site Reliability Engineer at Gusto
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Swica is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and data systems. He blends software development, SRE practices, and AI/ML Ops to architect resilient, automated infrastructure—most recently at Gusto and previously scaling S3 front-ends at AWS. Peter has led teams to cut multi-week region build processes to hours, reduced on-call load through automation, and improved service reliability at Meta via targeted Python analysis and concurrency improvements. A hands-on engineer and co-founder (wickard.ai), he pairs product-minded leadership with deep systems troubleshooting across Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, and large data stacks. He’s an active open-source contributor to the Kubernetes release infrastructure, improving CI/CD and shellcheck hygiene to make releases more stable and maintainable. With a background in mathematics and philosophy, he brings analytical rigor and practical automation fluency to complex operational challenges.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Philosophy at University of Toronto
English, Polish
Github Skills (16)
sh10
kubernetes10
automation10
script10
automations10
infrastructure10
shell10
release-automation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
scripting10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
docker9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/release
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Release infrastructure for Kubernetes and related components
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:33 commits, 37 PRs, 117 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the release infrastructure of the Kubernetes project by automating and improving build and release processes. They focused on enhancing the `hack/verify-shellcheck.sh` script and fixing shellcheck warnings, thus improving code quality and maintainability. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to CI/CD pipelines, specifically in the `push-build.sh` and `debian/jenkins.sh` scripts, to improve the build and deployment automation. The user's work is geared toward enhancing the stability and reliability of Kubernetes releases.
kubernetesrelease-infrastructureinfrastructure
pswica/kubernetes
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:72 pushes, 36 branches in 1 month
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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