Piotr Mińkowski
Solution Architect at Red Hat
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPiotr Mińkowski is a Solution Architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering Java and cloud-native systems from telecom and banking to large-scale consumer platforms. Based in Warsaw and currently at Red Hat, he combines hands-on Spring Boot/Spring Cloud development with architecture and CI/CD leadership, previously shaping Java landscapes at PLAY and Orange. An active open-source contributor, Piotr has improved testing and Kubernetes integration in well-known projects like spring-cloud-kubernetes and fabric8io/kubernetes-client, adding JUnit5 support and load-balancing enhancements. He pairs deep backend and QA expertise—writing integration tests, Hoverfly simulations and Kubernetes mock extensions—with a pragmatic focus on operability and automated delivery. Notably, he bridges vendor collaboration and code-level quality control, routinely turning architectural requirements into tested, production-ready components.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Warsaw University of Technology
English
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
docker10
testing10
microservices-application10
dockers10
java10
kubernetes-client10
javas10
junit10
mocking10
kubernetes-pods10
spring-boot10
spring-cloud10
rest-api10
microservices10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
piomin/sample-spring-microservices-kubernetes
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Sample Spring Boot application that uses some features provided by Spring Cloud Kubernetes, Spring Cloud OpenFeign and Spring Cloud Gateway deployed on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:23 commits, 16 PRs, 85 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily focused on adding integration tests using JUnit5 for various microservices like employee and department services. They wrote tests to validate API endpoints and interactions with the services. Additionally, they implemented Feign communication tests and used Hoverfly for simulating external dependencies. Furthermore, the user made minor refactoring changes and updated dependencies to the latest Spring Cloud version.
spring-cloud-kubernetesspring-boot-sampleopenshiftopenfeignspring-boot-application
piomin/sample-spring-microservices-new
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Demo for Spring Boot 3(`master` branch)/2(other branches) and Spring Cloud microservices with distributed configuration (Spring Cloud Config), service discovery (Eureka), API gateway (Spring Cloud Gateway, Zuul), Swagger/OpenAPI documentation (Springdoc), logs correlation using Spring Cloud Sleuth/Micrometer OTEL and many more
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 50 commits, 21 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily contributed to the development of microservices using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. Their work involved creating employee and department services, defining data models, and implementing RESTful APIs for data access and manipulation. The user also integrated the services with Spring Cloud components like Eureka for service discovery and Swagger/OpenAPI for API documentation. Furthermore, the user added tests to validate the functionality of the developed services.
api-gatewayspring-cloud-configconfig-servicespring-boot-2service-discovery
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