Piotr Galar
Developer Experience Engineer at ElevenLabs
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPiotr Galar is a Developer Experience engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience helping teams ship faster and more reliably across startups and open-source ecosystems. He has founded and led DX teams at IPDX and Protocol Labs and recently joined ElevenLabs, combining hands-on engineering with strategic ownership of CI/CD, release automation, and developer tooling. Piotr’s open-source work includes release and CI improvements for high-profile projects like IPFS (kubo) and Filecoin (lotus), where he migrated pipelines to GitHub Actions and automated release workflows. He pairs a pragmatic backend and DevOps skillset—Go, automation scripts, and build systems—with a product-minded focus on removing friction from developer workflows. Trained at King’s College London and the University of Copenhagen, he also brings UX and AI nanodegree studies to bridge developer ergonomics and automation. Notably, his contributions often target platform-specific build issues and release orchestration, the behind-the-scenes work that keeps large distributed projects shippable.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenNanodegree UX, Nanodegree UX at UdacityBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at King's College LondonBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Jagiellonian University
Spanish, English, Polish
Github Skills (17)
github-ci10
scripting10
ipfs10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
go10
golang10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
bash9
blockchain9
devops9
docker8
filecoin8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/kubo
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
An IPFS implementation in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 95 reviews, 123 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily contributed to the Kubo project by addressing platform-specific issues and managing version updates. They skipped a test on Windows, indicating an understanding of platform-specific behavior. Their work included bumping the Kubo version across multiple release candidates and final releases, reflecting involvement in the release management and build process. The user also removed unused linter directives.
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filecoin-project/lotus
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 42 reviews, 1 commit in 1 day
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily focused on improving the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for the `filecoin-project/lotus` repository. Their contributions include migrating from CircleCI to GitHub Actions, automating the release process, and creating a system to generate release issues. They worked on scripts for publishing checksums and version checks, which are essential parts of the release workflow. Furthermore, the user implemented automated issue creation, streamlining the release process.
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