Ryszard Knop
GPU Software Engineer - DevOps, CI CD at Intel Corporation
Gdansk Metropolitan Area Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolRyszard Knop is a GPU-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and low-level drivers across Intel and other organizations. He currently owns CI/CD for Linux GPU kernel drivers, provisioning large-scale bare-metal test infrastructure and managing shared services that power Intel’s open-source graphics CI. His background spans UEFI and network driver development, data processing with Python and Apache Beam, and maintaining production-grade open-source libraries like django-sortedm2m. A pragmatic Linux enthusiast and occasional game-devotee, he combines systems-level debugging with automation at scale (Ansible, Proxmox, Jenkins). He also volunteers as an IT and accreditation coordinator, having built custom ticketing software and run on-site operations for 5,700-attendee events. Comfortable both in firmware and cloud-adjacent infra, he brings a hands-on, maintenance-first approach to complex release and testing lifecycles.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at Gdańsk University of Technology
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Github Skills (15)
python10
django10
compatible9
refactor9
package-management9
refactoring9
compatibility9
testing8
django-models6
data-structures6
google-cloud-pubsub6
django-orm6
apache-beam6
console6
apache-beam-io6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-sortedm2m
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
A transparent sorted ManyToMany field for django.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Ryszard primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `django-sortedm2m` library. Their contributions include refactoring code, fixing code style issues, and sorting imports to ensure code quality and readability. The user also addressed compatibility issues with Django versions and removed support for PyPy. The user's work demonstrates their focus on code maintenance, bug fixes, and ensuring compatibility with the supported Django versions.
djangomany-to-many
DragoonAethis/Coriolis
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
Small event management tool
Contributions:5 releases, 218 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 3 months
management-toolevent-management
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