Szymon Gibała
Software & Platforms Engineer Engineering Lead
Poland
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Top SchoolSzymon Gibała is a Software & Platforms Engineer and Engineering Lead with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems, distributed services, and testing/CI infrastructure. He combines backend development and DevOps expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like Kyma and the Rust container runtime Youki—where he improved integration tests, automation, and gateway/connector components. At Chorus One he leads platform work focused on performance and networking, drawing on prior roles at Mattermost and SAP Hybris to bridge product engineering and platform reliability. He’s pragmatic about test automation and cluster provisioning, and often surfaces small maintainability wins (typo fixes, refactors) that compound into more robust systems. Based in Poland, he maintains an active technical footprint through his website and GitHub, signaling a hands-on leader who still prefers shipping code.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Politechnika Śląska w Gliwicach
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Github Skills (41)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
api10
go10
proc10
kubernetes-pods10
rust10
backend10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/kyma
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
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:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 260 commits, 487 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Szymon's primary focus was on implementing features related to the Application Connector and Gateway components within the Kyma project. Their work involved fixing bugs related to application connectors and gateway, adding and modifying roles for application connector components, and fixing dependencies. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the service definition service, specifically addressing issues with service labeling and API spec modification. The user also participated in renaming Application Connector component to Metadata Service and extending Application Gateway.
cloud-nativekuberneteskymaknative
kyma-project/test-infra
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:39 commits, 87 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Szymon primarily focused on automating and configuring the testing infrastructure for the Kyma project, specifically for release candidate and integration tests. Their contributions involve creating and modifying Prow jobs, including presubmits and postsubmits, for various components like application gateway, application connector, and others. The user also addressed issues related to cluster provisioning, and performed tasks such as increasing timeouts and adjusting test configurations.
test-kitchenkymatest-infrastructuretestinginfrastructure
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