Alicja Laszuk

alicja.dev

hi@alicja.dev

github.com/trueskawka

linkedin.com/in/alicjaraszkowska

Infrastructure
Terraform
Kubernetes
Docker
PostgreSQL
CI/CD pipelines
Code
Shell scripting
Python, Ruby, Golang
JavaScript & Node.js
Other skills
Mentoring
Interviewing
Public speaking
Writing documentation
Hobbies
Ukulele
Knitting
Drawsplaining
Languages

English proficient, C2

Polish native

SRE who loves all things stateful Working with distributed systems, building scalable services, and making tools for fun.
experience
February 2024
to Present
Greenhouse, Lead Site Reliability Engineer
DevOps/SRE
  • Managing datastores in production (PostgreSQL, Apache Solr, Redis, Opensearch)
  • Deploying applications on and managing Kubernetes clusters
  • Managing infrastructure with Terraform and ArgoCD (GitOps)
  • Providing datastore-focused expertise to engineering teams
  • Developing platform tools in Python, Ruby, and Golang
November 2021
to January 2024
Okta (Auth0), Staff Site Reliability Engineer
DevOps/SRE
  • Managing datastores in production (PostgreSQL, MongDB Atlas, Redis)
  • Full-scope SRE oncall support (incident management, finding the root cause, postmortems)
  • Managing infrastructure with Terraform and ArgoCD (GitOps)
  • Providing datastore-focused expertise to engineering teams
October 2019
to September 2021
Clio, Systems Engineer
DevOps/SRE
  • Working with MySQL database clusters (self-managed and serviced)
  • Deploying applications on and managing Kubernetes clusters
  • Managing infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Configuring hosts with Puppet and building base containers with Ansible
September 2018
to October 2019
Mobify, Full-stack Engineer
Back-end development and infrastructure management
  • Building SDK tooling for Progressive Web Apps, with server-side rendering
  • Managing and deploying PWAs on AWS with CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk
  • Leading engineering initiatives for improving communication and code quality
March 2017
to December 2017
Freelance, Web Developer
Contract full-stack web development for various clients
  • Lead a technical redesign sprint to plan new features and improve code quality
  • Improved code review and developer onboarding processes
  • Created a framework for building HTML email templates in Node.js
volunteer and part-time work
January 2019
to August 2022
Exclamation Foundation, Co-organizer of !!Con
  • Voting on talk proposals
  • Coordinating speaker needs - scheduling, travel, lodging, technical support
  • MCing conference sessions, community management, and social media activity
May 2017
to June 2019
Recurse Center, Contract Alumni Interviewer
  • Conducting conversational and live-coding admissions interviews; worked in numerous programming languages
  • Evaluating applicants’ programming ability and fit for program
education
Recurse Center – New York, NY
Self-directed programming retreat. Attended August - November 2016 and January - February 2018
Warsaw School of Economics – Warsaw, Poland
Quantitative Methods in Economics and Information Systems, MSc, BSc
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