Maciej Gamrat

Maciej (Matt) is a Software Engineer turned Cloud Architect, focused on building efficient solutions on AWS Cloud. Big fan of Serverless computing, GitOps approach to deployment, and generally keeping things simple. Not afraid of tough challenges and wearing different hats. Certified AWS Solutions Architect, open to remote IC opportunities.

Privately, casual gamer and hobbyist musician, who enjoys good books, spending time in nature and traveling, while studying people and himself.

Skills and Interests

• Linux. Built and deployed containerized Linux workloads in production.
• Python. Favourite automation language, written for readability first.
• Terraform. IaC tool of choice, utilizing quality modules where possible.
• AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate. Used for when simple serverless is enough.
• Kubernetes. Currently learning EKS, focusing on operational perspective.

Experience by Project

Intelligent Content SaaS

Bringing multiple apps into the cloud and integrating into a SaaS product. Transforming Continuous Delivery practices and engineering culture to ensure reliable product release. A several months long undertaking, leading to the production launch of Hyland Experience in early 2024.

Hyland / Software Architect 4 & Delivery Architect (Oct 2023 – Sep 2024)

• Designed a system of app provisioning, deploying SaaS customers via Terraform Cloud
• Introduced Continuous Delivery pipeline for reliable upgrades of deployed apps
• Led a dedicated engineering team to deliver automation according to product timeline
• Mentored Development teams on integrating CI/CD pipelines with the delivery system
• Ensured observability using Datadog, managed production incident response
• Prepared developer documentation and manuals for Cloud Operations teams

#terraform #python #lambda #eks #datadog

Hyland / Engineering Manager, DevOps (Nov 2022 – May 2023)

• Coordinated SaaS deployment and integration testing in pre-production
• Introduced product oriented roadmap to agree on team priorities & planning
• Mentored, structured the code review process, paired to resolve blockers
• Managed day to day work & communication for a team of DevOps Engineers

#terraform #python #kubernetes #eks #mentoring

Platform Engineering Team

Employing DevOps best practices at managing AWS Cloud projects and preparing blueprints for Netguru Delivery. Developing company wide standards for Cloud DevOps practices, fostering knowledge sharing in Delivery teams, and ensuring fast & simple yet quality delivery.

Netguru / Senior DevOps Engineer & Cloud Architect (Jan 2022 – Nov 2022)

• Tech leadership to oversee Netguru AWS projects and extract recurring features
• Prioritized daily work & product roadmap for a Team of Cloud Engineers
• Developed reusable AWS Cloud templates for Netguru Delivery using Terraform
• Employed modular infrastructure components to improve velocity & simplicity
• Delivered sandbox account mechanism for Cloud R&D purposes, with Okta SSO
• Carried out Terraform workshops during Netguru College: DevOps Edition
• Developed Cloud & IaC training materials for Netguru Delivery

#terraform #python #ecs #serverless #knowledge-sharing

French Streaming Platform

A step by step rewrite of existing Joomla based webpage, with several challenges on the way. Upon numerous iterations, ended up as a set of ECS Microservices, secured API Gateway and CloudFront distributions hosted on AWS Cloud, along with on-premises parts for cost optimization. Serving 300.000 users of French speaking market and handling numerous client applications on Web, mobile and console platforms, it was an invaluable exercise in Auto Scaling, Quality of Service monitoring and Incident Handling.

Netguru / (Senior) DevOps Engineer & Tech Lead (Feb 2021 – Jan 2022)

• Tech leadership of hybrid cloud deployment for streaming app
• Day to day planning with the client as Cloud DevOps team leader
• Designed & delivered a pipeline for business analytics purposes
• Integrated monitoring system for on-call purposes, incl. solution design
• Implemented dynamic preview environments for acceptance testing
• Developed pipelines for ECS microservices using GitLab CI/CD

#terraform #ecs #autoscaling #monitoring #hybrid-cloud

E-Commerce, Professional Services

Shorter assignments for product startups, including an e-commerce platform for sharing of furniture and home decor creations made for Italian artists, as well as a dedicated marketplace for finding specialized lawyer for one’s needs, operating on the British market. Working end to end on providing production infrastructure, migrating existing workloads to AWS Cloud and enabling Dev Team to benefit from Continuous Integration and Deployment functionality.

Netguru / DevOps Engineer (Nov 2020 – Feb 2021)

• Deployed ECS based infrastructure to support product launch & maintenance
• Migrated Docker Compose based deployments to AWS Cloud
• Implemented Circle CI based continuous deployment pipelines
• Provided documentation & training within Development Team

#aws #terraform #docker #compose #ecs

Certificates

AWS / Certified Solutions Architect Professional (2022–2025)

• Design of technical strategies to accomplish specific business goals
• Balancing best practices and trade-offs based on business context
• Delivery of solutions across multiple platforms and providers

Education

MSc Eng / Computer Science (2017–2018)

• Clustering in high-dimensional space of molecular imaging (MALDI-MSI)
• Part of Spectre research initiative for open source medical software
• Silesian University of Technology / Gliwice, Poland

BSc Eng / Computer Science (2013–2017)

• Optical Music Recognition as a Web service
• Silesian University of Technology / Gliwice, Poland

Languages

• Polish: native proficiency
• English: fluent in speaking & writing
• German: intermediate level of proficiency