Piotr Kruk
Platform Tech Lead Cloud Architect
Queensland, Poland
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Top SchoolPiotr Kruk is a Platform Tech Lead and Cloud Architect with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, secure cloud platforms across telco and PaaS environments. He has led infrastructure and CI/CD re-architectures for services serving 100+ million users, driving cost reduction, faster deployments and improved reliability. Skilled in Python, SaltStack, Terraform and AWS, he combines hands-on engineering with platform-level leadership and incident-response experience. An active open-source contributor to SaltStack, he’s improved Python 3 compatibility and extended filesystem support in key modules—reflecting a knack for pragmatic, low-level fixes that improve large ecosystems. Based in Queensland and originally from Poland, he also brings a creative eye as a photographer, hinting at a detail-oriented perspective beyond code.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Uniwersytet ŚląskiBachelor's degree, Computer Science (spec: Modeling, Cognition and Control), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (spec: Modeling, Cognition and Control) at Jagiellonian UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science(spec: Modeling, Cognition and Control), Master's degree, Computer Science(spec: Modeling, Cognition and Control) at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
Polish, English
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Github Skills (20)
python10
configuration-management10
saltstack10
infrastructure-as-code10
ext49
cloud-manager9
automations8
automation8
linux8
testing7
documentation7
awesomewm6
neural-network6
lua6
android6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily contributed to the SaltStack project by addressing Python 3 compatibility issues and refactoring code within the `salt/modules/parted.py` file. Their work included fixing missing parentheses and adjusting code to ensure compatibility. Additionally, they extended functionality by adding support for ext3 and ext4 partition types within the parted module. The user also addressed merge conflicts and made style and documentation improvements.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
pkruk/pylenstra
May 2017 - Aug 2022
Implementation of ECM (Lenstra elliptic curve factorization). Small part of my Master Thesis, which I would like to share.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
bytefactorizationfinite-fieldsmasterelliptic
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