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Karol – AWS, GCP, Python, experts in Lemon.io

Karol

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Site Reliability Engineer|Middle
DevOps|Senior
Platform Engineer|Senior
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Karol – AWS, GCP, Python

Karol is a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience across startups and enterprise companies, including Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Terraform, and Linux sysadmin. He has strong debugging skills, solid observability knowledge, and hands-on production experience with cluster operations and automation. Karol has mentored other developers and uses open code for GenAI tasks with data plugins, balancing productivity while being mindful of token usage costs.

11 years of commercial experience in
Healthtech
Main technologies
AWS
6 years
GCP
4 years
Python
8 years
Kubernetes
5 years
Terraform
6 years
Linux
15 years
Additional skills
Golang
Bash
Prometheus
Airflow
C#
CI/CD
Azure DevOps
Big Data
PowerShell
Docker
Amazon ECS
Amazon EC2
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Lambda
Amazon RDS
Amazon S3
GCP Compute Engine
Microsoft Azure
Ansible
Network administration
DevOps
SQL
CircleCI
AI-assisted coding
LLM
NLP
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Experience Highlights

Cloud Engineer
Mar 2019 - Ongoing7 years 3 months
Project Overview

It's a UK-based company that provides an online, white-label ticketing platform for football clubs to sell match tickets, memberships, and related products digitally, replacing traditional paper ticketing.

Responsibilities:
  • Led the migration of a legacy C# monolithic application from AWS EC2 to GKE with zero downtime.
  • Designed and implemented secure production-grade GKE clusters for QA and production.
  • Engineered self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on GCP, reducing build times and lowering costs.
  • Established a CI/CD pipeline with automated testing, staged QA deployments, and gated production releases.
  • Drove cloud cost optimization through resource rightsizing and workload tuning.
  • Maintained GKE infrastructure and operational stability.
  • Trained developers on cluster usage.
Project Tech stack:
GCP
Kubernetes
C#
Bash
Python
CI
CD
Site Reliability Engineer
Jun 2023 - Jun 20263 years
Project Overview

It's an AI-powered media intelligence platform that helps businesses track reputation, risks, and market trends by analyzing millions of news and regulatory sources in real time.

Responsibilities:
  • Orchestrated the transition of 250+ applications from Amazon ECS to EKS, reducing vendor lock-in and improving autoscaling.
  • Migrated legacy MWAA Airflow and distributed Step-Functions/CronJob Lambdas into a centralized Airflow and Argo Workflows stack on EKS.
  • Designed and executed an EKS rightsizing initiative using CPU and memory metrics to reduce Kubernetes compute costs.
  • Cleaned AWS infrastructure by deprecating obsolete routes, unused accounts, and legacy EBS snapshots and volumes.
  • Acted as SecOps for compliance audits, security assessments, and vendor onboarding.
  • Led a penetration testing initiative and implemented strict Kubernetes Network Policies.
  • Led the migration from legacy Prometheus to a highly available Thanos-based observability stack on Kubernetes.
  • Modernized onboarding documentation and updated Kubernetes interactive tutorials.
  • Led a company-wide disaster recovery simulation and directed post-mortem analysis for critical incidents.
Project Tech stack:
AWS
Kubernetes
Airflow
Prometheus
Bash
Python
DevOps Engineer
Dec 2020 - Oct 20221 year 10 months
Project Overview

It's a digital health platform offering a free app and resources to help people with epilepsy track their condition and find better treatment.

Responsibilities:
  • Architected and deployed enterprise-grade AWS infrastructure from the ground up as the sole DevOps Engineer.
  • Designed networking architecture, IAM/SSO framework, ECS orchestration, and data platform foundations.
  • Implemented multi-region infrastructure-as-code using Terraform Cloud.
  • Automated CI/CD using GitHub Actions.
Project Tech stack:
AWS
Terraform
CI
CD
DevOps Engineer
Jul 2020 - Nov 20203 months
Project Overview

It's a greenfield Big Data infrastructure for the major British multinational biopharma company, focused on discovering and developing medicines and vaccines

Responsibilities:
  • Delivered greenfield Big Data infrastructure.
  • Architected scalable and secure data processing solutions on Azure.
  • Implemented infrastructure-as-code using ARM Templates, Azure CLI, and PowerShell.
  • Built automated deployment pipelines through Azure DevOps.
Project Tech stack:
Big Data
PowerShell
Azure DevOps

Education

2013
Mathematics and Computer Science
Bachelor's degree

Languages

Polish
Advanced
English
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