Robert Sowula
Senior Platform Engineer
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolRobert Sowula is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Vienna with eight years of experience building backend systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer tooling. He has progressed from internships to platform engineering roles at REWE International, contributing to scalable Kubernetes and AWS deployments and high-availability SSO migrations. Comfortable in Java, Kotlin, Spring and Docker, he also maintains an independent iOS app project (Readcap), showing a hands-on, cross-platform curiosity beyond backend work. As a TU Wien tutor across advanced software and distributed systems courses, he pairs practical engineering with teaching and rigorous academic training (MSc in Software Engineering, 1.3). Known for integrating CI/CD and QA pipelines into production workflows, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and repeatable delivery to platform teams.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
English, German, Polish
Github Skills (33)
administrator10
hierarchical10
configuration-management10
database10
kubernetes9
microservices8
proxies8
security8
golang7
jenkins-plugin7
consul7
api-management7
jenkins6
jenkins-shared-library6
observe6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robaerd/libelektra
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Elektra serves as a universal and secure framework to access configuration parameters in a global, hierarchical key database.
Contributions:343 pushes, 35 branches in 11 months
secureparameterselektrakey-databasehierarchical
robaerd/jenkins-shared-lib-elektra
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:47 pushes, 3 branches in 4 days
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