My name is Pawel Rychlik, Iโm based in Poland ๐ต๐ฑ, EU.
Iโm a computer guy ๐ป. I snooze pagerduty alerts ๐ด. I restart things and kill SQL queries ๐ช. I add more resources and beef up the infrastructure. Then I complain about the cloud costs ๐ฉ๏ธ. I sometimes skip post mortems. I procrastinate. But I meet my deadlines. I rather underpromise and overdeliver than the other way around.
I'm also a co-founder and a CTO ๐งโโ๏ธ. I like simplicity and pragmatism. My work focuses on stability, scalability, cost-effectiveness and automation. I'm quite good with AWS, postgres, kubernetes, terraform, spreadsheets, node.js and security. After all these years I still suck at elasticsearch, though.
Iโm a husband and a father. That said, I whole-heartedly enjoy watching Bluey series ๐บ, playing lego, programming in Scratch, camping ๐๏ธ and paddle boarding.
I'm into ultra-cycling ๐ด, but only as long as there's a time limit and a fixed track to follow. I'm not fast by any means and I always carry too much gear, but I've managed to finish a couple of randonneur events up to 600 km (37 hours). Years ago, I bike-toured 2700 km around Iceland ๐ฎ๐ธ and did a little tour around the Baltic sea ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช ๐ง๏ธ.