My name is Pawel Rychlik, I’m based in Poland 🇵🇱, EU.
I’m a computer guy 💻. I snooze pagerduty alerts 😴. I restart things and kill SQL queries 🔪. I add more resources and beef up the infrastructure. Then I complain about the cloud costs 🌩️. 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 🧙♂️. 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.
I’m a husband and a father. That said, I whole-heartedly enjoy watching Bluey series 📺, playing lego, programming in Scratch, camping 🏕️ and paddle boarding.
I'm into ultra-cycling 🚴, 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 🇮🇸 and did a little tour around the Baltic sea 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🌧️.