lukasz_budnik --principal-engineer

> Executive Summary

const professional = {
  current_role: "Principal SDE @ AWS",
  impact: "Building PB-scale data systems and global SaaS solutions",
  specialization: [
    "High-availability distributed systems",
    "Multi-cloud & multi-tenant architectures"
  ],
  depth: {
    experience: "15 years+",
    vision: "Org-wide technical catalyst; defining north star architectures & standards",
    leadership: "Establishing high-trust, high-autonomy, high-velocity engineering cultures",
    mentorship: "Staff+ mentoring & raising the bar for engineering excellence"
  },
  education: ["PhD - Distributed Systems", "MEng - Computer Engineering"],
  differentiators: [
    "Leading high-risk/high-margin projects",
    "Panic management"
  ]
};

> Career Milestones

# AWS_DMS_REVOLUTION

Architected the vision for a next-gen, fully serverless distributed AWS DMS service.
Pioneered the AI POC that laid the foundation for AI-assisted schema conversion in AWS DMS.
Implemented multiple developer productivity enhancements for the core AWS DMS engine.

# GLOBAL_SAAS_ARCHITECTURE

Spent 8 years building a multi-cloud, multi-tenant SaaS platform for Workday business process testing.
Scaled engineering from 4 engineers to 8 distributed teams.
Served Fortune 500 companies, including top-tier global organizations.

# INNOVATION_ALWAYS_ON

Migrated a tier-1 system off Oracle to Aurora Global Cluster, DocumentDB Global Cluster, and serverless Lambda with API Gateway; architected and validated a resilient multi-region hot-standby architecture.
Designed and implemented a mission-critical medical imaging devices driver framework; remotely troubleshot and controlled devices from 2,000km away.
Built voice and video solutions using VXML, ASR, and TTS well before the Alexa era.

> ls ./open-source

Go migrator // Ultra-fast DB migration tool

Go yosoy // Prototyping distributed applications

Java pintor // Write Ahead Log (WAL) implementation

gRPC roxdb // DynamoDB-style RocksDB wrapper