status: currently building at Pekao Leasing

Konrad Kurek

Platform Engineer & DevOps Engineer – Warsaw, PL

I design and run the infrastructure other engineers build on – Kubernetes platforms, GitOps delivery, and CI/CD pipelines that get code to production without drama.

See the journey -> crux.devops@gmail.com

About

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I started out keeping Active Directory, VMware, and a stack of Linux servers alive – the unglamorous plumbing every company depends on. That instinct for reliable foundations carried straight into platform engineering.

Today that means designing and running Kubernetes clusters, wiring up GitOps delivery, and building CI/CD pipelines that ship code safely. Most recently, I built a Kubernetes platform from scratch at Pekao Leasing – clusters, pipelines, and containerized workloads, end to end.

Orchestration & containers
Kubernetes OpenShift Docker Kustomize
Delivery & GitOps
ArgoCD Tekton Jenkins GitLab CI Azure DevOps
Infrastructure as code
Terraform Ansible
Cloud
GCP IBM Cloud Azure
Systems & scripting
Linux Bash Nginx VMware Hyper-V Traefik
and more…

Experience

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May 2026 – Present · 4 mos current

Platform Engineer & DevOps

Pekao Leasing Sp. z o.o. · Warsaw, PL
  • Designing and running the company's Kubernetes platform and Docker-based environments from the ground up
  • Driving GitOps practices for infrastructure and application delivery
  • Owning end-to-end CI/CD in Azure DevOps, with approval gates and release management
  • Containerizing internal applications and supporting core Linux server infrastructure
Apr 2026 · 1 mo

Career break – health & well-being

Jun 2025 – Apr 2026 · 11 mos

Senior DevOps Engineer

Altkom Software Sp. z o.o.
  • Designed CI/CD pipelines for iOS and Android application delivery
  • Architected and automated C# backend deployments on OpenShift with ArgoCD (GitOps)
  • Built GitLab CI pipelines end-to-end, from commit to release
  • Maintained and optimized Docker and docker-compose environments
Mar 2025 – Apr 2025 · 2 mos

DevOps Engineer

Tutore Sp. z o.o.
  • Contributed to the team's Ansible and Terraform codebases
  • Automated GCP resource provisioning
Jul 2019 – Mar 2025 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Full-time

TUATARA Sp. z o.o.

Warsaw, PL
Jun 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

DevOps Engineer

  • Administered and orchestrated OpenShift, including build configs and deployments
  • Automated GitOps delivery with ArgoCD, plus Tekton and Jenkins pipelines
  • Wrote Kubernetes/OpenShift manifests with Kustomize
  • Provisioned GCP and IBM Cloud environments with Terraform and Ansible
Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs

IT Administrator

  • Administered Active Directory, Linux servers (RHEL, CentOS, Rocky), and VMware ESXi/VCSA
  • Kept SharePoint, Jira Server, and Postgres/Oracle databases running
  • Automated delivery and maintenance workflows with Jenkins
  • Managed backups, Nginx reverse proxies, Office 365, and firewall rules