Piotr Kołacz
Lead Software Engineer at Gradle Inc.
Cracow Metropolitan Area Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPiotr Kołacz is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and guiding teams through the full software lifecycle—from requirements and architecture to delivery and operations. Currently leading the Deployment Runtime Team at Gradle, he specializes in cloud-native deployments across AWS, GCP and Azure, Kubernetes, Helm, AirGap installs, K3s and OpenShift with a strong emphasis on security and reliable runtime automation. His background spans hands-on Java engineering, technical leadership at Sabre and HSBC, and mentoring the next generation of Java developers through a top online bootcamp. Piotr combines deep platform expertise with pragmatic attention to technical debt, CI tooling and code quality, enabling faster and safer releases. Colocating in the Cracow area, he brings both enterprise-grade discipline and a developer-first approach to making engineering “faster, better and more fun.” An early contributor to GUI workflow tooling during his internship, he still favors solutions that simplify complex processes for users and teams.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Jagiellonian University
English, Polish
Github Skills (57)
schema-validation9
json9
java9
groovy9
schema9
gradle9
api9
maven9
gradle-plugin8
kotlin8
spock-framework8
specification8
autocomplete8
dependabot8
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
passionate-software-engineer/passionate-software-engineer.github.io
May 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:721 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
passionate-software-engineer/personal-finance-manager
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:6 reviews, 74 commits, 195 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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