About

Karol Stępniewski is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix with over 12 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked with customers from various industries, including telco, software houses, and medical centers. Karol believes that listening to and talking to people is crucial to solving most problems. He also emphasizes the importance of optimized, maintainable, and secure code over fancy language constructs and cutting-edge technologies. Karol believes that experience is measured by how one handles their mistakes. Karol loves problem-solving, regardless of the field or area. His areas of interest include distributed systems, software-defined networking, cloud infrastructure, automation, web development, and programming for scale. His favorite programming languages are Go, Elixir, and Ruby. Before joining Netflix, Karol worked as a Staff Engineer at VMware, where he was a member of the team serverless and worked on project Dispatch. He also worked as a Technical Consultant at wingu sp. z o.o., where he integrated and deployed solutions for systems performance and availability monitoring. Karol holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology, a Master of Economics in Computer Systems in Management from Warsaw University for Life Sciences, and a Bachelor of Economics in Computer Science, Economy, and Econometrics from Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie. Karol's tech stack includes software engineering, web development, Ruby, and infrastructure. With over 10 years of relevant experience, Karol is a seasoned professional who is always eager to take on new challenges and solve complex problems.