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Karol Pogonowski

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Principal DevOps & Cloud Engineer at intive who cut a streaming platform’s AWS costs by 30%.

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At intive, I work across client engagements from cloud architecture through deployment and operations. On an AWS-based streaming platform, I own monitoring, deployments, cost optimisation and infrastructure audits, and cut infrastructure costs by 30% without service degradation.

For a cybersecurity product, I designed and built a greenfield AWS environment, defined its infrastructure as code in Terraform, and helped migrate more than 30 services from private cloud. I’ve also built Python data pipelines and contributed Go code to a core platform.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Principal DevOps Engineer

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 9 months)

Owned monitoring, deployments, cost optimisation and infrastructure audits as sole DevOps engineer for an AWS-based streaming platform. Cut total infrastructure cost by 30% (≈ €30,000/month saving) after a full account audit, with no service degradation.

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DevOps Engineer

Monetas

Mar 2015 - Apr 2016 (1 year 1 month)

Owned DevOps for the whole engineering team: CI/CD, automation, deployments, monitoring and architecture; contributed Go code to the core platform. Designed and deployed the full stack infrastructure for an instant transaction system (peak volume: 5k tx/s).

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Software Developer

EQCO, Inc

Jan 2015 - Mar 2015 (2 months)

Designed a service-oriented platform in Python on Docker and CoreOS (4 independent services over RabbitMQ), so long-running analytics never blocked API requests.

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Software Engineer

Counterparty

May 2014 - Dec 2014 (7 months)

Maintained build scripts and extended regression, unit and integration tests for counterpartyd, the Python reference client used by wallets and exchanges.

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DevOps Systems Administrator

Hogarth Worldwide

Jan 2013 - May 2014 (1 year 4 months)

Ran live production servers and built deployment automation, including a full SaltStack rollout; developed Django applications. Focused on networking, high availability and SaaS architecture; worked with Microsoft on Azure API and tooling development.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

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University of Edinburgh

Master of Informatics (MInf), Informatics

2008 - 2013

Grade: Honours 2:1

Completed a Master of Informatics with Honours 2:1.

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