Piotr Katolik
Lead Data Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolPiotr Katolik is a Lead Data Engineer based in Sydney with 9 years of experience building pragmatic, production-grade data platforms that prioritize reliability, privacy, and cost-efficiency. He has a track record at REA Group leading teams to design cross-cloud batch and real-time streaming architectures (Kafka), implement metadata and data catalog solutions, and embed governance and privacy controls into engineering workflows. Comfortable bridging legal, compliance, and product stakeholders, he focuses on making data discoverable and reusable while driving multi-team adoption of scalable ETL and serverless cost optimizations. Earlier roles span full-stack and Java systems, giving him a strong appreciation for end-to-end delivery, monitoring, and operational stability. Trained as a technical physicist, he brings a research-minded, “software gardener” approach—cultivating robust systems and mentoring teams to grow sustainable data practices.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Technical Physics - Nanoengineering, Very good, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Technical Physics - Nanoengineering, Very good at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Polish, English, German, Portuguese
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Github Skills (82)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Katolus/Katolus
Oct 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
Katolus/functions
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
A utility package for building, running and deploying serverless functions for the local and the cloud.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 390 commits in 5 months
deployingpythonfaas-cliserverlessdocker
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