Piotr Smolinski
Consulting Engineer at Confluent
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
👤
SeniorPiotr Smolinski is a Consulting Engineer based in Bavaria with over a decade of experience designing real-time big data and EAI distributed systems, currently focused on streaming architectures at Confluent. He brings deep expertise in TIBCO integration, Java/Scala architecture, CEP/ESP and the Hadoop/Spark ecosystem, backed by certifications including Sun Certified Enterprise Architect and Certified Big Data Architect. Piotr has a strong track record modernizing messaging and integration layers for enterprise clients, drawing on years of hands-on TIBCO consulting and J2EE architecture. As an active contributor to open-source projects, he enhanced Wireshark’s Kafka dissector—adding support up to Kafka 2.5 and tackling compression and alignment bugs—demonstrating practical protocol and compression know-how. Comfortable across Python, R and container orchestration tooling, he blends low-level networking insight with data-platform design. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that bridges legacy EAI landscapes and cloud-native streaming platforms.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
integrate10
python10
tsql10
databases10
kafka10
c1110
kodi10
integrations10
c1710
sql10
packet-capture10
plex10
wireshark10
sql-database10
addon10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wireshark/wireshark
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. ⚠️ GitHub won't let us disable pull requests. ⚠️ THEY WILL BE IGNORED HERE ⚠️ Upload them at GitLab instead.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily contributed to the Wireshark project by enhancing its Apache Kafka protocol dissection capabilities. Their work involved adding support for Kafka versions up to 2.5, including improvements like Zstd compression and fixing alignment issues. They also addressed bugs in the dissection of Kafka messages. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of networking protocols and data compression techniques, particularly in the context of Kafka.
tsharkgit-repositorywiresharkpacket-capturegitlab
croneter/PlexKodiConnect
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Plex integration in Kodi done right
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Piotr primarily contributed to the integration of Plex with Kodi. Their work involved modifying Python code to support the full URL and path identifiers for media files, allowing direct browsing of media directories. The user extended functionality to properly handle movie and episode table updates, resolving path and file ID issues. They also maintained the database interactions, modifying queries to facilitate improved synchronization.
integrationplexxbmcformula1addon
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.