Piotr Gwizdala
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPiotr Gwizdala is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building reliable, high-performance backend systems for demanding production environments. He has driven large-scale distributed and low-latency projects—from architecting a graph database at Twitter that served hundreds of millions of queries per second to improving reliability and developer productivity at Improbable and Grafana Labs. Comfortable across the stack, Piotr has deep expertise in concurrent Java systems, storage migrations, and operationalizing services to reduce maintenance overhead. He combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on correctness and scalability, and is known for untangling legacy codebases into maintainable, production-ready platforms. A detail that often goes unnoticed: his career path blends finance-grade low-latency trading systems with game and observability infrastructure, giving him a rare perspective on both extreme performance and developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Warsaw University of TechnologySoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaBaccalaureate Mathematics and Computer Science, Baccalaureate Mathematics and Computer Science at III L.O. Gdynia
English, Spanish, Polish
Github Skills (47)
monitoring10
observability10
time-series10
grafana10
opentelemetry-collector10
collector10
prometheus-exporter10
system-monitoring10
agent10
prometheus10
opentelemetry10
logging10
tempo10
telemetry10
graphing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thampiotr/nhshackday2016
May 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
thampiotr/my-set-up
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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