Przemysław Lal
Cloud Reliability Engineer at Canonical
West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPrzemysław Lal is a Cloud Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating complex OpenStack and Kubernetes-based clouds, currently delivering private and hybrid cloud solutions at Canonical. He combines deep systems expertise—from Linux kernel tuning to customer-facing observability—with hands-on automation and incident response to meet strict SLAs for telco, edge, and managed-app environments. Previously at Tietoevry and Intel he focused on container orchestration, networking dataplane acceleration, and hardware-aware workload placement, mentoring newcomers and supporting pre-sales efforts. An active open-source contributor and QA/devops engineer on well-known Kubernetes projects like Multus CNI and the SR-IOV device plugin, he has strengthened CI/CD testing, secure admission webhooks, and test automation for production readiness. Colocated in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, he pairs practical cloud engineering with a knack for making subtle infrastructure reliability improvements that noticeably reduce operational toil.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin
English, German, Polish
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
webhooks10
testing10
github-webhooks10
cicd10
plugin10
certificate10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
mocking10
test-automation10
dockers9
docker9
cni9
yaml9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-network-device-plugin
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
SRIOV network device plugin for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Przemysław's primary contribution focuses on enhancing the test suite for the project. They added comprehensive tests for various packages and modules, including utilities, managers, and resources, as well as integration and unit tests. The user implemented mocking techniques to support testing and refactored existing tests. The user also addressed build and dependency issues to ensure the tests ran successfully within the CI/CD environment.
deviceintelplugink8skubernetes
k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
A CNI meta-plugin for multi-homed pods in Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 20 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Przemysław's contributions center around implementing and automating a validating admission webhook within the Kubernetes environment. They added scripts for automated certificate and secret generation, essential for TLS encryption. The user also developed the webhook application, including validation logic for Network Attachment Definition objects and integrated testing. This indicates a focus on extending and securing the Multus-CNI functionality.
controlplanecontainerized-vnfdataplanekubernetes-networkingvnf
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