Hi, my name is

Szymon.

I build backend systems and cloud infrastructure

I am a software engineer and DevOps practitioner with 9 years of professional experience in back-end development, cloud infrastructure, and deployment automation. I work primarily with Python and Go, and I am currently looking for my next role as a DevOps Engineer.

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About Me

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I have been working in IT since 2014. For the first three years I worked as a Linux system administrator and IT technician, then moved into professional software engineering in 2017. That gives me a strong foundation in infrastructure, networking, and operating systems.

I design back-end services, event-driven systems, and RESTful APIs. Over the years my focus has shifted toward the operations side: I build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure as code, and automate deployment workflows.

I am an enthusiastic AI user. I interact with LLMs and coding agents daily, which helps me keep up with the rapid developments in the field and move faster without sacrificing quality. My favourite coding assistants include OpenCode and, more recently, pi-coding-agent. I have also worked with models across the GPT, Claude, Gemini, Gemma, Mistral, Bielik, Kimi, and Minimax families, among others.

I am passionate about developer tooling. I love command-line utilities and I keep expanding my toolbelt with new ones every week. Check out my dotfiles repository where I keep my personal neovim config 🤓

Outside of engineering I am a long-time Linux and FLOSS enthusiast and a member of Hackerspace Trójmiasto, where I learn new tech and help others do the same. Away from the keyboard I spend my time moving, mostly hiking, running, cycling, practicing yoga, and doing Animal Flow.

Certifications

Technologies I work with
  • Python
  • Go
  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • AWS CDK
  • Terraform
  • PostgreSQL
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js

Experience

Senior Software Engineer - Adtran Networks
Jun 2025 - Jun 2026
Event-driven Wi-Fi Home Network Troubleshooting backend services. Helping the department transition to Trunk-Based Development.
Python Developer - Infermedica
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Medical Guidance Platform team, delivering new features for an AI-powered diagnostic system. Python/TypeScript monorepo managed with Poetry, Docker, and Kubernetes. Co-maintaining an ApiGateway component written in Go.
Senior Software Engineer - SoftServe
Oct 2022 - May 2023
Data management and querying platform in Azure cloud. Azure DevOps, Function Apps, Cloud Storage, Storage Queues, Synapse Analytics, Pydantic, Azure SDK, PyArrow, Pandas.
Software Engineer - Merapar Technologies
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Back-end components in Python and TypeScript. Cloud infrastructure with AWS CDK and Serverless Framework. CI/CD pipelines and reusable DevOps scripts.
Java / Cloud Software Engineer
Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
Java microservices and Python serverless components on AWS. CloudFormation, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, SQS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
Python Software Engineer - PGS Software
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Secure online transaction platform. Flask, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Boto3, Pytest, Behave, Moto, Pylint, mypy, Bandit, AWS Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Terraform.
Junior Java Software Engineer - Lufthansa Systems Poland
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Java EE software development.
IT Technician / System Administrator - Self-employed
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
Linux server administration, remote consulting, computer network design and troubleshooting, hardware maintenance.

Contact

My inbox is always open. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, I will try my best to get back to you!