Paul Czarkowski

Paul Czarkowski is a seasoned professional specializing in team and technology leadership with a diverse skill set across various technologies.

He is a strong advocate of DevOps methodologies, automation, repeatability, and Kanban, with a proven track record in identifying and removing bottlenecks to enhance operational efficiency.

Paul possesses expertise in a wide array of technologies including Apache, Squid, Puppet, MySQL, Active Directory, Atlassian products, Perforce, ELK stack, GitHub, Chef, Vagrant, Ansible, and Jenkins, among others.

Some of Paul's notable achievements include launching SWTOR to over 2 million players seamlessly, architecting a highly available Perforce server handling over 20 million daily operations, and deploying multiple major data center co-locations in a short span of time.

He has also made significant contributions to open-source projects like Logstash, developed Juju charms for Canonical, and created various Vagrant development environments, including those for Openstack, demonstrating his commitment to sharing knowledge and enhancing developer experiences.

Paul's professional journey has seen him as a technical lead at Blue Box/IBM, where he built out a Telemetry and SRE Platform to enhance Openstack manageability behind firewalls.

Paul Czarkowski studied at Queensland University of Technology and has held key positions at renowned organizations like Pivotal, Blue Box Group/IBM, Rackspace, Electronic Arts, Bioware, and Pandemic Studios.