Hi! 👋

My name is Bartek (full: Bartłomiej). I am from Poland, precisely from the city called Gdańsk.

I am some curious and (bit too) ambitious human who happened to dive very deeply into software engineering waters. My first dev job started in 2012 and since then I enjoy delivering challenging projects, together with many awesome people I met on the way.

My main focus was always building and running software in web/backend/distributed systems/infrastructure areas. Even though I have on-going experience as a global-scale SRE I love development the most: I love building pragmatic, scalable, high-quality solutions.

I used to work at Improbable: Amazing Gaming UK Startup. With global scale Kubernetes infrastructure, we were using and developing technically impressive unique systems. At some point, a couple of years ago, with Fabian Reinartz, we created Thanos project, which got some popularity as a kind of default choice for scaling Prometheus. That started a shift to work fully on open source around the Prometheus ecosystem, becoming Prometheus maintainer and working as Principal Engineer at the most open-source company ever: Red Hat. 🚀

I love mentoring, teaching, speaking at conferences and working with communities, especially around Observability, that’s why at some point, we created the CNCF Special Interest Group (SIG) for Observability, where I am performing a technical leadership role.

Currently, I live in London, and I am really grateful to work on a daily basis with one of the best engineers in the world in both Red Hat, Prometheus ecosystem and the CNCF space.

Rest of my time is reserved by my beloved wife & family, gym, volleyball and sometimes cars (:

Feedback

I am always looking forward to hearing feedback! (:

Especially if you feel angry with what I say or do, I would love to hear that. This way we all learn! (:

Reach me through any channels listed in on main page.

My Talks

Some talks I performed (or co-performed 🤗)

Open Source Projects

Some more interesting projects I maintain or maintained in the past. Some of them created or co-created:

Actively Maintaining

• Thanos
• Prometheus
• configuration.fyi
• prometheus/client_golang
• mimic
• mdox
• flagarize
• funcbench
• go-grpc-middleware
• prometheus grpc middlewares
• Demo Navigator
• prometheus-operator
• CMO
• jiralert
• my
• oidc
• go-jwt
• up
• statectl
• go-tokenauth

Used to Maintain

• kEdge
• grpc-proxy
• go-k8sresolver
• promeval
• go-httplog
• go-httpt
• Serenity
• Mesos

CV

Let’s just reuse stuff, shall we? (:

My is CV is available on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/bwplotka/