Erik Zilinsky
Contributor at Kubernetes
Budapest, Central Hungary
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolErik Zilinsky is a cloud and DevOps engineer with a decade of professional experience and four years focused specifically on introducing DevOps practices to accelerate software delivery. He designs and automates cloud-native architectures across AWS, Kubernetes and on-prem clusters, builds CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, and has hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kafka and observability stacks. Erik contributes to upstream cloud-native projects like Kubernetes SIG Autoscaling in his spare time and has improved maintainability in notable open-source tooling such as the Beeware Briefcase codebase. His background as a DB2 z/OS DBA and early QA work gives him a practical systems perspective that informs resilient, operable designs. Based in Budapest, he pairs a passion for automation with a knack for pragmatic refactors and a curiosity that extends to exploring global cuisines.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Aplikovaná informatika/Bezpečnosť informačných systémov, Bachelor's degree Aplikovaná informatika/Bezpečnosť informačných systémov at Slovenská technická univerzita v BratislaveHigh school diploma Electrotechnics, High school diploma Electrotechnics at Stredná priemyselná škola, Komárno
Slovak, Hungarian, English
Github Skills (5)
ca10
pathlib10
fc10
python10
testing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
beeware/briefcase
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Tools to support converting a Python project into a standalone native application.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Erik primarily focused on refactoring code and improving the codebase's overall structure. This included replacing instances of `str(pathlib.Path(...))` with `os.fsdecode` for broader compatibility. The user made significant contributions to tests, modifying various test files, updating dependencies, and ensuring the project's maintainability. Additional changes were observed across multiple files, indicating a general code improvement effort.
pythonapplication
iamzili/autoscaler
Feb 2025 - Jul 2026
Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
Contributions:117 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 5 months
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