Łukasz Budnik
Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolŁukasz Budnik is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale cloud and distributed systems, currently leading architecture and technical vision for AWS DMS. He has scaled a SaaS product from a four-person engineering team to an organization approaching 300 people, and has managed eight distributed engineering teams through complex cloud migrations and modernization programs. A former CTO and Chief Architect at Kainos Smart, he combines hands-on implementation with governance, automation, security, and cost stewardship across multi-cloud production operations. Łukasz contributes to open-source security tooling—improving the AWS CIS Foundation benchmark by hardening checks and fixing vulnerabilities—underscoring his practical security instincts. He holds advanced academic training in informatics and pairs rigorous technical depth with a pragmatic, product-focused leadership style. Based in Gdańsk, he is known for turning challenging technical visions into working, reliable services for the largest enterprise customers.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Informatics, PhD Informatics at Gdańsk University of Technology
Spanish, English, Polish
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Github Skills (5)
cloud-security10
boto10
cloudwatch10
aws10
python10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
amazon-archives/aws-security-benchmark
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Open source demos, concept and guidance related to the AWS CIS Foundation framework.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Łukasz primarily focused on improving the security posture of the AWS CIS Foundation Benchmark. Their contributions involved identifying and fixing vulnerabilities, such as ensuring SSH is not open to the world. They addressed issues related to AWS security checks, like key rotation and hardcoded metric namespaces, while also correcting control implementations to provide accurate results. Their changes directly impacted the reliability and accuracy of the security checks within the benchmark.
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lukaszbudnik/yosoy
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
yosoy is an HTTP service for stubbing and prototyping distributed applications.
Contributions:8 releases, 56 commits, 47 PRs in 2 years 2 months
http-servicestubbingkubernetesdistributed-systemsdocker
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