Summary
Stefan Praszalowicz is a Director of Engineering in Seattle with 16 years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, infrastructure, and developer tooling. At Kentik he leads the infrastructure team powering service orchestration, API gateways, stream processing, databases, and CI/CD for a large-scale network analytics SaaS. His background includes control-plane and operational tooling at Netflix’s CDN and early cloud/backend work at Cue and Greplin, giving him deep expertise in streaming alerts, DDoS protection, and observability. Known for making complex, competing systems cooperate, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a focus on enabling other engineers to move fast and safely. An early polyglot who even shipped C/C++ on Symbian, he brings both breadth across full-stack infrastructure and a practical operational mindset.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at ESI Supinfo Paris
English, French