Waldek Herka
Principal Engineer at Amadeus
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWaldek Herka is a Principal Engineer based in London with 11+ years delivering large-scale DevOps, developer experience and platform modernization work at Amadeus. He combines deep hands-on skills across Python, Java/C++, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift), virtualization and CI/CD tooling with a pragmatic focus on performance, security and developer productivity. Waldek has led cross-functional restructuring projects—most notably a Software Workbench to streamline CI/CD—and advised virtualization and security teams to bridge DEV-SEC without slowing delivery. He is a seasoned mentor and technical supervisor who routinely removes technical barriers, evaluates emerging technologies, and drives migrations from legacy test platforms to cloud-native architectures. Comfortable across big enterprise stacks and low-level systems, he also has a track record of building in-house tooling (portals, log viewers, sync systems) that scale across global sites. Colleagues rely on him for a blend of analytical rigor, commercial realism and a continuous appetite for learning new technologies.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Politechnika Częstochowska
Github Skills (132)
controller10
testing10
runner10
operator10
podman10
fine-tuning10
golang10
kind10
application10
kubernetes10
docker10
kubeadm10
llm10
continuous-testing9
linux9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AmadeusITGroup/sonarlint-language-server
Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
Language Server for SonarLint VSCode
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionsonarlintlsp
wherka-ama/bdist_pyinstaller
Sep 2021 - Jul 2024
A side-car distutils command to automate creation of the pyinstaller packages in a non-intrusive way
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 9 months
python310pythonpython35python-3distutils
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