Piotr Schodziński

Summary

Senior Software Developer with 6 years of experience specializing in cloud-native architecture and DevOps practices. Led successful zero-downtime migration of microservices to Kubernetes (AWS EKS) and designed scalable platform infrastructure. Proven track record in implementing payment systems, and building robust CI/CD pipelines. Passionate about platform engineering and enabling development teams through automation and best practices.

Professional Experience

Senior Software Developer

Forward Thinking Systems

October 2022 – Present

Architected and built comprehensive platform infrastructure for microservices deployment on AWS EKS, including Terraform IaC, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts library, DataDog monitoring, and BigQuery analytics integration
Led zero-downtime Kubernetes migration of entire microservices product suite to AWS EKS, ensuring seamless transition with zero incidents and maintaining 100% availability throughout the process
Established DevOps best practices and tooling standards adopted by development teams, reducing deployment time and improving system reliability
Designed and implemented Jenkins installation for automated cluster testing with Robot Framework, integrated with LLM for intelligent test result analysis and automated feedback delivery to developers through GitLab merge requests
Mentored development teams on Kubernetes adoption, container orchestration, and cloud-native practices, accelerating team productivity and platform adoption
Led hackathon team in developing an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and AI agent, enabling customers to interact with company APIs using natural language, reducing API integration complexity and opening new revenue streams

Java Developer

Forward Thinking Systems

November 2020 – October 2022

Designed and implemented microservices architecture, contributing to system scalability improvements
Successfully migrated legacy Java EE monolith to Spring Boot microservices, reducing deployment complexity and improving system modularity by breaking down into independent services
Architected and developed billing microservice with external payment gateway integration

Java Developer

Zalass Consulting sp. z o.o.

November 2019 – October 2020

Developed and maintained enterprise Java applications for client projects
Participated in full software development lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway), Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Architecture Design

DevOps & Platform Engineering

Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, DataDog, BigQuery

Programming & Frameworks

Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL

Architecture & Practices

Microservices, REST APIs, Event-driven Architecture, Zero-downtime Deployments, Monitoring & Observability

Key Projects & Achievements

Platform Engineering Initiative

Built comprehensive developer platform reducing microservice deployment time
Implemented GitOps workflow enabling self-service deployments for development teams
Created reusable Helm library templates standardizing Kubernetes deployments

Zero-Downtime Cloud Migration

Orchestrated migration strategy for production workloads serving thousands of users
Implemented canary deployment patterns with fine-grained, weighted traffic shifting using Argo Rollouts
Achieved 100% success rate with zero rollbacks or incidents

Real-time Billing System

Designed event-driven architecture handling financial transactions in real-time
Integrated with external payment providers

Personal Home Lab Infrastructure

Built Docker-based home lab with 15+ services, automated CI/CD, and Traefik reverse proxy
Implemented centralized authentication (Authelia) and monitoring stack (Grafana, InfluxDB, Loki)
Integrated network services: PiHole DNS filtering, WireGuard VPN, media server

Education

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) | Civil Engineering
2011 – 2016

Languages

English: Fluent (Daily collaboration with international team)

Polish: Native