Kristof Kowalski
Founder at Hyper
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKristof Kowalski is a founder and seasoned engineering leader based in Melbourne with 10+ years building cloud-native, observable systems and developer tooling. He combines deep SRE and observability expertise—particularly OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, Prometheus and Dynatrace—with hands-on Golang, Kubernetes and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) engineering. At ANZ he led observability initiatives and OpenTelemetry distributions, and he’s now founding Hyper while also working as a Staff Engineer on AI, CI/CD and observability. His background spans successful startups (co-founding Simply Migrate and VolAir) and enterprise roles at Novartis and the BBC, giving him a unique mix of product instinct and operational rigor. He’s also an active builder of developer-facing projects (creator of pastebase.net and builder of gethyperapp) and brings a practical focus on MLOps/LLMOps and blockchain integration beyond traditional SRE duties.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
General AssemblySydney Adventist High School
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Github Skills (86)
opentelemetry-collector10
profiling10
opentelemetry10
k8s10
synthetics10
kubernetes10
tradingview10
generator10
to-yaml10
convert9
monitoring9
bash9
distributed-tracing9
binance9
otel9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
krzko/awesome-cka
Aug 2019 - Oct 2022
☸️ A curated list for awesome resources needed to pass your Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 20 commits in 3 years 2 months
kubernetesckak8s
krzko/tvctl
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
📈 A command-line utility to interact with TradingView
Contributions:10 releases, 6 reviews, 64 commits in 1 year
command-line-utilitytradingviewdockercryptobinance
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