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Piotr Wojcieszonek

Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

Linux. Automation. Tools I build.

I have worked with production infrastructure since 2007 — from ISP networks to fintech. I combine Linux administration, automation and building my own tools.

Koszalin, Poland remote / hybrid / on-site

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Piotr Wojcieszonek

Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

foundation
Linux / Debian / Ubuntu / FreeBSD
perspective
since 2007 / production 24/7
toolkit
Linux. Automation. Tools I build.
location
Koszalin, Poland
A profile you can explore.
since 2007production infrastructure
10 000+devices provisioned
24/7production environments
Linux / automation / production infrastructureExplore my work history

01 ~/experience

Experience

Telecommunications, business software and fintech. Maintaining production systems while designing and implementing changes.

01.2023 — present

Systems Administrator

Currency One S.A.

Fintech: Internetowykantor.pl and Walutomat. Remote work, B2B contract.

  • I maintain a 24/7 online currency exchange platform in the regulated financial sector: Linux, Kubernetes, GitOps with ArgoCD, Chef and GitLab CI/CD.
  • I migrated the systems architecture, improving flexibility and the efficiency of infrastructure management.
  • I automated backup testing, reducing verification time and making disaster recovery procedures more reliable.
  • I am responsible for monitoring, hardening, backups, disaster recovery and incident response.
LinuxKubernetesArgoCDGitOpsIaCChefGitLab CI/CDProxmox VECephGCPVictoriaMetricsVictoriaLogsGrafana
06.2018 — 12.2022

DevOps Engineer

Business Online Services

Bosflow, an electronic document workflow platform. Remote contract work.

  • I was responsible for the entire on-premises infrastructure. I deployed Proxmox VE and migrated company and customer services without downtime.
  • I automated builds in Jenkins and built and maintained CI/CD pipelines for building and deploying applications.
  • I introduced Ansible as the standard for repeatable, version-controlled deployments in customer environments outside the company’s full control.
  • I designed deployment architectures for different customer on-premises environments and their security requirements.
  • I containerized the entire Bosflow application with Docker, standardizing development, test and production environments.
Proxmox VEJenkinsCI/CDAnsibleDockerLinuxZabbixGrafanaGitOpsIaC
11.2011 — present

Head of IT Department

Telewizja Kablowa Koszalin Sp. z o.o.

Currently a maintenance role · oversight of automated infrastructure

ISP and cable TV operator, Koszalin. Currently a maintenance role, overseeing automated infrastructure.

  • I am responsible for the operator’s entire IT infrastructure and network: Cisco, Huawei, Harmonic, Linux, Proxmox VE, Kubernetes and automation.
  • I lead a four-person IT team, select vendors and negotiate contracts.
  • I deployed GPON and DOCSIS 3.1, increasing access network capacity, as well as digital TV with a Harmonic headend.
  • I designed and built provisioning systems, including a Ruby DHCP server that replaced commercial solutions. It continues to serve over 10,000 DOCSIS modems and GPON terminals in production.
  • I moved critical systems to new server infrastructure, migrating from Xen to Proxmox VE without downtime for services running 24/7.
  • I maintain containerized services on Kubernetes, delivered through GitOps with ArgoCD.
  • I oversaw a CRM deployment and designed its integration with all provisioning systems.
  • I am responsible for regulatory compliance and reporting to UKE under telecommunications law.
CiscoHuaweiHarmonicLinuxProxmox VECephXenKubernetesArgoCDGitOpsIaCChefAnsibleGitLab CIRubyGPONDOCSIS 3.1
10.2007 — 11.2011

System Administrator (Network Administrator)

Telewizja Kablowa Koszalin Sp. z o.o.

Koszalin, full-time.

  • I administered the operator’s systems and network: Linux, FreeBSD, DNS, DHCP and routing with Cisco IOS.
  • I deployed and maintained DVB-C and the Irdeto and CryptoGuard conditional access systems.
  • I designed and deployed EuroDOCSIS monitoring, speeding up diagnostics and troubleshooting.
  • I was promoted to Head of IT in 2011.
LinuxFreeBSDDNSDHCPCisco IOSDVB-CIrdetoCryptoGuardEuroDOCSIS

02 ~/stack

Skills

From the operating system to application deployment. Technologies linked to specific roles and projects, alongside my full range of skills.

Containers and orchestration

Kubernetes (K8s) · Docker · ArgoCD · GitOps

Automation and IaC

Ansible · Chef · Terraform · Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

GitLab CI/CD · Jenkins · Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

Cloud

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

AI and LLMs

Integrating LLM agents with infrastructure through MCP connectors: virtualization and monitoring · Log and documentation analysis · Generating code, CI/CD pipelines, and Chef and Ansible configurations · Running agents within defined permission boundaries

Operating systems

Linux · Debian · Ubuntu · FreeBSD

Virtualization and storage

Proxmox VE · Ceph

Monitoring and observability

Prometheus · Grafana · ELK Stack · High Availability (HA) · Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices

Security and compliance

Security hardening · Secrets management: Kubernetes SealedSecrets · Incident response · Disaster recovery · Regulated environments: UKE and the financial sector

Databases

PostgreSQL · MySQL

Programming

Ruby · Bash · Git · REST API

Networking

Cisco · Huawei · VPN · Firewalls · SSL/TLS · HAProxy · Load balancing

Telecommunications

DOCSIS 3.1 · EuroDOCSIS · GPON · DVB · Provisioning systems · Harmonic

Education

Koszalin University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science
Engineering degree, specialization: Computer Control Systems · 2008

Courses and training

Cisco CCNAX 3.0
Irdeto CA Foundation Course
Infoshare Academy — Docker Workshop

Languages

Polish — native
English — B2

03 ~/projects

Tools I build

Writing code is part of my work as a systems administrator. I build tools for provisioning, virtualization and secrets management.

projects / pvectl / README

Open source

pvectl

A kubectl-style CLI for managing Proxmox VE clusters: virtual machines, containers, nodes, storage, snapshots and backups.

Technologies
Ruby · Proxmox VE
View repository on GitHub: pvectl (new tab)

projects / knife-proxmox-ve / README

Open source

knife-proxmox-ve

A knife plugin (Chef Infra / CINC) that creates a VM on Proxmox VE from a cloud-init template and bootstraps it with Chef or CINC in one command.

Technologies
Ruby · Chef Infra · CINC · Proxmox VE · cloud-init
View repository on GitHub: knife-proxmox-ve (new tab)

projects / rkseal / README

Open source

rkseal

A CLI for interactively creating and editing Kubernetes SealedSecrets, inspired by knife vault. Plaintext secrets stay in RAM and are never written to disk.

Technologies
Ruby · Kubernetes SealedSecrets
View repository on GitHub: rkseal (new tab)

projects / Enterprise DHCP Server / README

Production project

Enterprise DHCP Server

A Ruby DHCP server that replaces commercial solutions. It automates provisioning for over 10,000 DOCSIS modems and GPON terminals and runs continuously in production.

Technologies
Ruby · DHCP · DOCSIS · GPON

Production project for a telecommunications operator.

View this role in my work history

README These descriptions explain what each tool does. Public project code is available in the linked repositories.

04 ~/contact

Let’s talk
about a role on your team.

Hiring for an infrastructure, platform or DevOps team? I’d be glad to discuss the role and its technical challenges.

piotr@wojcieszonek.pl