Krzysztof Knapik
Verified Expert in Engineering
Azure Developer
Krzysztof is an experienced and certified cloud architect and DevOps engineer responsible for resource consulting with prospective clients to determine needs, design effective solutions, and resolve business-critical issues. As a team member, Krzysztof can apply more than 10 years of experience strongly focused on modern IT solutions.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Azure, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, Git, Windows PowerShell, Cloud Architecture
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is design and develop organization-wide blueprint standards for private AKS deployments and integration.
Work Experience
Senior Azure and DevOps Consultant
Zurich Insurance
- Acted as a senior DevOps consultant and a member of an organization-wide SAFe team responsible for application migration and transformation to Azure cloud.
- Designed and developed organization-wide blueprint standards for private AKS deployments and integration.
- Created CI/CD pipelines for Docker images, including building, testing, and publishing to shared image repositories.
- Developed Helm charts for customer microservice apps.
- Built automation for app migration, design drawing, and service documentation.
Lead Azure and DevOps Consultant
IKEA
- Designed and delivered the platform for distributed applications based on Azure cloud, Kubernetes, and Kafka.
- Developed automation framework with PowerShell and Pester to increase the deployment success rate and consistency.
- Created Ansible automation for F5 Network appliance deployment to the cloud.
- Developed the platform roadmap and company team.
- Designed, developed, and maintained Kubernetes network mesh based on Istio.
Azure Architect | Team Lead
Nordcloud
- Served as a cloud architect, participating in a project to deliver infrastructure combined with applications deployments for Robert Bosch GmbH.
- Delivered automation that creates a complete development environment, including Kubernetes clusters, Jenkins, GitHub repository, and Artifactory repository. Ensured secure network and access.
- Created ARM templates for Azure infrastructure as a code.
- Built CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for automatic deployment of infrastructure and apps. Used Azure, Kubernetes, and function apps.
- Made scripts in Azure CLI, PowerShell, and Bash and created DevOps pipelines. Conducted configuration management with Azure automation, runbooks, and DSC.
Lead Cloud Engineer | Azure Architect
Atos
- Implemented Atos Canopy public cloud products and POCs. Conducted enterprise customer onboarding and migration.
- Deployed, managed, and maintained large-scale Microsoft private cloud environments for up to 400 fabric Hyper-V hosts and 2–5,000 VMs.
- Configured deployment automation with Microsoft SCORCH, SMA, PowerShell, ARM templates, and CLI Azure infrastructure monitoring. Created OMS custom alerts and dashboards.
- Conducted hardware administration for Dell PowerEdge M1000e EMC, M630, and R730 servers.
- Maintained clustered always-on SQL Server environments.
System Engineer
Intebuco Polska
- Deployed and maintained virtual server infrastructure based on VMware ESXi and Hyper-V. Participated in the software development process and cooperated with dev teams.
- Conducted infrastructure automation and code deployment, including IIS and SVN configuration.
- Handled Microsoft SQL, IIS, management, PowerShell, and Bash scripting.
Experience
Highly Scalable Platform
https://boschdevcloud.com/• Kubernetes cluster
• Preconfigured Jenkins pipeline
• In-house Artifactory container image repository
• Dedicated GitHub Enterprise repository
• Full networking setup.
IKEA Hybrid Integration Platform
http://ikea.comUsed the following components:
• AKS and Istio
• Networking – Azure Native, F5
• Confluent Kafka clusters
• API gateways
• Databases – Cosmos DB, Oracle18c
• Hybrid topology – on-prem and cloud
• Monitoring – Azure Monitor, SignalFx, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.
Used CI/CD for application, infrastructure, and configuration as code:
• Azure DevOps – YAML pipelines and Jenkins
• Ansible – networking, Linux configuration, Azure infrastructure
• ARM templates, Terraform, Bicep
• Automation framework – custom PowerShell modules and Pester unit testing
• Azure Artifacts – NuGet
• Scripting – PowerShell, Bash, Azure CLI, Groove
• Kubernetes Helm charts – development with Go templates
• Istio mesh – responsible for network policies, Helm deployment, and configuration.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Networking
Katowice Institute of Information Technologies - Katowice, Poland
Professional Degree in Information Technologies
Technical College | Śląskie Zakłady Naukowe - Katowice, Poland
High School Diploma in Information Technologies
IT Technician High School - Katowice, Poland
Certifications
OpenHack: Containers
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The linux foundation
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux Foundation
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Cloud Platform
Microsoft
MCSA: Windows Server 2012
Microsoft
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat
Skills
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell, .NET
Tools
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Git, Logging, Azure App Service, Hyper-V, Apache, Istio, Splunk, Grafana, GitHub, Artifactory, Azure Automation, Sonar, MSBuild, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), SCVMM, Dell EMC, VPN
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, Agile, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Unit Testing, Microservices
Platforms
Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure IaaS, Windows Server, Linux, Red Hat Linux, Apache Kafka, Azure PaaS, Nexus, Microsoft
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud Architecture, Cloud, Ingress, Security Policies & Procedures, Containers, Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Administrator, Azure Storage, IaaS, Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Security, Cloud Platforms, Cloud Infrastructure, MCSE, MCSA, Virtualization, Management Systems, Cloud Services, Network Administration, Service Virtualization, Servers, Networks, F5 Networks, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, SignalFX, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, ARM, Power Shell Commands, APIs, Infrastructure, DSC, Operations Management Systems (OMS), Azure Event Grid, Configuration Management, Web Servers, Training, System Center, System Center Operations Management (SCOM), Private Clouds, Always On, Active Directory Federation, VMware ESXi, IIS, DNS, Azure Government, Data Management Platforms, Programming, Robotics, Computer Science
Languages
Bash, SQL, YAML, Python
Libraries/APIs
GitHub API
Storage
Azure Active Directory, Azure Cosmos DB, Data Centers, Dell Blades, IIS SQL Server
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