Piotr Śliwka
Technical Lead at Opera
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPiotr Śliwka is a Technical Lead with 10 years of experience designing and operating large-scale web services and internal platforms at Opera. He manages a team of five while remaining hands-on, building a PaaS on 100+ Ansible-managed bare-metal nodes with Kubernetes, HA GitLab CI runners, and a Prometheus/Grafana observability stack. Piotr previously engineered a globally distributed ad delivery service handling 10k+ RPS and built scalable metric ingestion and container orchestration solutions. He’s fluent in Python and Go, integrates security tooling like HashiCorp Vault into production, and drives developer productivity through shared Docker images, Helm charts, CI templates, and workshops. Based in Lower Silesia, Poland, he pairs a robotics/control engineering academic background with a pragmatic obsession for development velocity and operational excellence.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange student, Electrical Engineering and Computing, Exchange student, Electrical Engineering and Computing at University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u ZagrebuB.Sc., Control engineering and Robotics, very good (5.0/5.5), B.Sc., Control engineering and Robotics, very good (5.0/5.5) at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Polish, English, Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (155)
api-client10
window-manager10
titlebar10
ansible-module10
gitgutter10
shell10
developer-tools10
smooth-scrolling10
debugging10
xorg10
docker10
user-friendly10
scrolling10
neovim10
smooth10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
psliwka/vim-smoothie
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
Smooth scrolling for Vim done right🥤
Contributions:8 reviews, 39 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 7 months
smooth-scrollingvimscrollingneovimsmooth
operasoftware/mpns-client
Jul 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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