Rafał Potempa is a PhD student and multidisciplinary software engineer with eight years of experience bridging cloud-native DevOps, machine learning, and physics-driven research. He has practical Cloud/CI experience from contributions to the Kyma project—improving Prow-based test infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and Kubernetes integrations—alongside production ML roles at FLYR. Dual full-time degrees and a background in structural engineering and automatics underline his strong discipline and systems thinking, now channeled into quantum computing and cosmology simulations. Active in university quantum informatics leadership, he blends academic curiosity with hands-on engineering, often translating complex research ideas into reproducible infrastructure and tests.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Data Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Data Science at The Silesian University of Technology
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:67 reviews, 42 commits, 105 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Rafał primarily worked on the Kyma project, contributing to the core functionality and infrastructure of a cloud-native application platform. Their contributions included enhancements to application connectivity, specifically Prow jobs and makefiles. They also addressed API specification handling, adding format support to the models and logic and updated dependencies for Kubernetes clients and Docker. They also contributed to the application operator, including adapting it to the 'allowPrivilegedContainers: false' policy.
Contributions:10 reviews, 15 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Rafał primarily focused on improving the infrastructure and automation related to the Kyma project's test infrastructure. Their contributions include creating and modifying Prow job configurations, integrating tests for various components, and automating the deployment of new tests. The user also introduced configurations for the Gardener Azure Kyma integration and created scripts to test Compass Provisioner. These changes aimed to improve the test infrastructure, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and add support for integration tests.
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Rafał Potempa - PhD Student at Silesian University of Technology