Szymon Komendera
Principal Database Solutions Architect
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSzymon Komendera is a Principal Database Solutions Architect with nine years of focused experience designing, operating, and leading cloud database products at AWS and Google, currently based in the Denver metro area. He helped found Amazon Aurora’s Database Engineering team and has driven customer-centric programs to improve supportability, manageability, and usability across managed database services. Szymon combines deep operational expertise (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Aurora) with product-minded architecture, moving from hands-on incident remediation to strategic partnerships that create long-term value. He started his career building high-availability backends and autonomous incident detection for Polish web platforms, bringing a practical emphasis on resilience and measurable performance. Known for insisting MVPs be genuinely useful, he balances technical rigor with pragmatic delivery to turn fragile prototypes into production-grade systems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Wrocławska Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki StosowanejComputer Science, Computer Science at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Polish, English
Github Skills (6)
amazon-aurora6
amazon5
diagnostics4
aurora3
mysql3
aws3
Github contributions (2)
skomendera/PyMyTools
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
skomendera/Arduino_MAX51717A_Vref_Example
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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