Hi, my name is Patryk, I was born and raised in Warsaw, Poland.
Warsaw is a fantastic city to live in and has a large amount of very talented programmers.
I speak Polish and English fluently, dabbled a bit in German, Spanish and Italian for a few years. Now, I could probably be able to order in a restaurant (maybe). I concentrate more on other types of languages, C++, C, Python, Perl, Bash, and a few others.
I did my masters of science in engineering and computer science at Warsaw University of Technology, along with my bachelor’s degree in engineering and computer science. Most of the creators of LizardFS come from there.
During my studies I gained experience working for 2 Polish companies, Comarch and Gemius, mainly doing C++ stuff. After studies, I moved to Intel as a Linux kernel developer working on the Intel puma project (google it if you like, it’s quite interesting stuff). Since March this year, I have been working on the LizardFS project.
LizardFS is by far the most interesting and exciting project I have been involved with. Really! It’s a great Polish project (yes I am patriotic), started in Poland by talented MIM UW postgraduates. Unfortunately, all of those brilliant minds left the project pursuing new challenges. Now I and our new team try our best to learn the code base, fix bugs left in 3.13-rc1, and develop new features. As most of you understand, learning someone else’s code is never an easy task, but we are coping. We have the benefit of some sessions with the original developers to help us get acquainted with the code faster and push the project back to its former glory.
Currently, as you have seen from the last press release we are working on fixing 3.13-rc2, we succeeded in getting the first parts of that done on schedule, now we are pushing to finish it and have a bulletproof new 3.13 version by the end of the year. LizardFS was always known for its stability, we want that back. After that, we will work on improving performance by adding the Agama project mount and Kubernetes support (seems to be the most frequently requested direction for us to take). Besides that, I would like to add a security layer to the LizardFS protocol, so that it can be used even in untrusted subnets.
In the future, I would like LizardFS to be an open-source standard for storing files on corporate servers and small businesses, but also on nerds’ homemade server racks. ?
If you’re interested, you can see more of me below:
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We have already had several members of the community step forward and show interest in taking part in these articles, would be great to have many more.
Remember the idea is to try and pull the community together and make the project stronger, hopefully growing along the way.
LizardFS developer’s article #1
