Work experience

Nov 2019 present	DreamHost via Virtkick Remote	DevOps Engineering Manager	Leading a DevOps Engineering Team under a B2B contract between Virtkick and DreamHost. Migrating old infrastructure from dated configuration management tools to Terraform and Chef. Converting the development process from Vagrant and Gerrit to Docker and GitLab. Automating build, test and deployment of DreamHost's services using GitLab CI, Helm and Kubernetes. Setting up and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
Nov 2017 Oct 2019	DreamHost via Virtkick Remote	Lead DevOps Engineer
Nov 2017 present	Undisclosed via Virtkick Remote	Senior Ruby & DevOps Engineer	Under a B2B contract, I'm driving a technological change in a dated application used by hundreds of thousands of users in the United States. Development tasks include changing architecture, tuning performance, improving security and bringing the project up to par with best practices. DevOps tasks include setting up infrastructure & application metrics, monitoring, alerting, automating configuration management and deployments, and improving security.
Apr 2017 Nov 2017	Tenfold via Virtkick Remote	Lead Site Reliability Engineer	Leading the SRE/DevOps Team under a B2B contract between Virtkick and Tenfold. Automating Tenfold's infrastructure using modern DevOps tools, Ruby, Python and shell scripts. Managing on-call rotation and escalation processes in relation to SLAs. Reacting to incidents, performing root cause analyses, and outlining proactive solutions. Improving data security processes and solutions, including employee onboarding/offboarding.
Jun 2014 present	Virtkick San Antonio, TX	CEO & Senior Ruby Engineer	Leading Virtkick - the best VPS control panel for hosting providers. Outlining company strategy and fundraising - raised $1M in 2015. Overseeing the product and managing employees. Developing Rails application, Sidekiq jobs and Python backend. Working with devops engineers on infrastructure & deployment automation.
Oct 2013 Oct 2014	8x8 via SoftwareMill Remote	Senior Ruby Engineer	Working on Zerigo DNS and VPS applications - both the webapps and the backend services. Developing PowerDNS pipe backend for Zerigo DNS. Helping the devops team manage DNS nodes with Chef.
Nov 2010 Dec 2014	AtlasHost (sold) Remote	CEO & Ruby Engineer	Fully managed hosting of Atlassian's applications, mainly JIRA and Confluence. Installing and administering - both operating system and application layer. Developing Rails websites. Automating deployment and operations with Ruby and Chef.
Apr 2012 Sep 2013	Undisclosed via SoftwareMill Remote	Java Developer	Developing an internal banking web application for a financial instution in South Africa using Java, Groovy, JavaScript and Knockout.js. Lead JavaScripter & unit tester.
Jun 2009 Apr 2012	Spartez Gdansk, Poland	Junior Java Developer	Developing and maintaining plugins for Atlassian JIRA and Confluence using Java, Struts and JQuery. Developing and maintaining my.spartez.com - an on-line store for software licenses - using PHP and Kohana framework. Learning and following agile and extreme programming principles - especially unit & functional testing, continuous integration and code review.
2005 2010	Freelancing Remote	PHP Developer	Creating and search engine optimizing of lots of small websites and applications written in HTML, CSS and PHP. Most applications used MySQL, a few used PostgreSQL. Some applications are still alive but I'm not that brave to disclose them. ;-)
2000 2005	"Freelancing" Gniew, Poland	Fixing People's Computers	My parents got me my first computer in fall 1997. That's how it all started. Just a couple years later I was the kid known in my small hometown for being good with computers. I made some great extra money on "fixing" people's "computers" (Windowses).

Technologies

Languages: Ruby, Javascript, Python, Shell, Java, Groovy, PHP, Perl
Frameworks: Rails, Middleman, Jekyll, Spring, Wicket, Java EE, KohanaPHP
Unit testing: RSpec, Test Kitchen, Bats, Spock, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Capybara
Coding practices: agile, clean code, unit testing, defensive programming, continuous delivery
Clouds: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack, DreamCompute, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, OVH
Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kops, RKE, Kubespray, Google Container Engine
Infrastructure: Chef, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Etcd, Vagrant, Ansible
Monitoring: Sensu, Datadog, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Zabbix
Virtualization: Libvirt, KVM, Virtkick, OpenStack, OnApp, Webvirtmgr
Networks: Wireshark, tcpdump, iptables, Calico, OpenWRT
Data stores: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, AWS RDS, MongoDB
Continuous delivery: GitLab CI, Travis CI, Codeship, Teamcity, Jenkins
Operating systems: Arch, Ubuntu, MacOS, CentOS, Debian, systemd, package building
Version control: Git, Git LFS, Subversion, GitLab, GitHub, Gerrit
Integrations/APIs: Stripe, Braintree, Slack, PayPal, Mailgun, Akamai DNS, Let's Encrypt, Customer.io, Dnsimple
Plugin development: PowerDNS, JIRA, Confluence
HTTP servers: nginx, http-master, Puma, Thin, Starman, Apache, Tomcat, Glassfish
Daily drivers: Arch Linux, zsh, Git, GitLab, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio Code

Schools

2007 to 2011	Gdańsk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdańska)	Received the title of Bachelor of Science. Thesis note: 5 (very good). Final note: 4.5 (good plus).
2004 to 2007	Collegium Marianum (Liceum Katolickie w Pelplinie)	Graduated with commendation. Took faculties in Maths, Physics and Chemistry.

Awards

2012	1st place in the contest for the best thesis written in Java technology, organized by e-point. I wrote a Java application for search engine optimization and marketing related activities.
2015	My business Virtkick was accepted to Techstars Cloud 2015 accelerator program. 10 companies were selected out of 1,100 that applied. I raised $1,000,000 from investors shortly after the program.

Lectures & workshops

2011	"Without Wordpress. Alternative blogging" for members of Tricity Ruby User Group.
2011	"Search Engine Optimization. In theory and practise" for postgraduate students of Gdańsk University of Technology.
2012	"IntelliJ IDEA for power users" for colleagues from SoftwareMill.
2014	"Preliminary to Search Engine Optimization" for editors of Radio Gdańsk.
2015	"I raised $1,000,000 from investors. Here's how" for members of Tricity Ruby User Group.
2018	Docker and Kubernetes expert at a hackathon for DreamHost engineers.

Community

Jan 2021	Mentor, panelist and judge at Hack the Norteast: Beyond - remote.
June 2020	Mentor at 3 Day Startup - remote.
Jun 2018	Panelist and judge at 3 Day Startup - San Antonio.
Apr 2018	Panelist and judge at 3 Day Startup - San Antonio.
Jun 2016	Mentor at StartupNext - San Antonio.
May 2016	Mentor at Codeup - San Antonio.
Apr 2016	Mentor and panelist at 3 Day Startup - San Antonio.
Dec 2015	Participant at 3 Day Startup - San Antonio.