Karol Szwaj
Senior Software Engineer at Envoy
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolKarol Szwaj is a Senior Software Engineer based in Gdańsk with 8 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, virtualization, and networking solutions. He specializes in automation and CI/CD for Kubernetes ecosystems, contributing operational improvements and integration tests to high-profile projects like Kyma and its test-infra. At Kubermatic he focuses on scalable cloud tooling, and as an Envoy maintainer he brings hands-on expertise to a core open-source networking project. Previously he drove DevOps initiatives at Onegini and developed cloud solutions at Intel, blending engineering rigor with pragmatic problem solving. Known for improving test coverage and automating complex pipelines, he has a knack for making brittle distributed systems more reliable and repeatable.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electronics and Telecommunications, Master of Science - MS Electronics and Telecommunications at Gdańsk University of Technology
English, Polish, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
istio10
kubernetes10
automation10
greenkeeper10
bash10
docker10
automations10
go10
cloud-native10
helm10
api-gateway10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/kyma
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:132 reviews, 71 commits, 77 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Karol primarily focused on improving the Kyma project's operational aspects, specifically related to Istio and API Gateway components. Their contributions include fixing Helm wait issues within the Kyma operator and addressing issues with Ory Hydra login and consent tests for the API gateway. They also worked on adding and refactoring fast-integration tests for Istio and API-gateway, improving test coverage and efficiency. Finally, the user addressed the addition of Istio component tests and BDD test reports, as well as tests for namespace-specific Istio configurations.
cloud-nativekuberneteskymaknative
kyma-project/test-infra
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 33 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Karol focused on automating and integrating the API Gateway tests within the Kyma project's test infrastructure. They primarily worked on creating and configuring Prow jobs for the API Gateway integration tests, including Gardener cluster integration. Their contributions included refactoring tests, setting up test environments, and modifying the CI/CD pipeline for automated test execution. The user's work also involved managing dependencies and the deployment of supporting components.
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