wojtek@zygadlo.ca
Based in Chilliwack, BC
© 2026 Voytek Zygadlo. All Rights Reserved
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Hi, I'm Voytek. I build developer platforms and the agentic AI layer on top of them.
Lead DevOps at VidIQ. Kubernetes platform across 348 repos, custom WAF operator, and a production fleet of AI agents that the engineering team uses daily. Fintech background (PayPal, Hyperwallet, PCI DSS). Based in BC, dual Polish/Canadian citizen.
15+
Years building
platforms
4
Countries shipped from
PL · UK · CA
About
Every solid platform starts with
an honest root cause
I'm a Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer with 15+ years across telecom, fintech, and SaaS — including a Director-level role running DevOps & IT at a Canadian fintech (PCI DSS), and a current Staff-equivalent scope at VidIQ. Started in Poland at Nokia Siemens, moved to the UK with Cisco, then to Canada via Hyperwallet (acquired by PayPal). Today I'm Lead DevOps at VidIQ, where I own the EKS platform, Terraform infrastructure, security & abuse defense, and the AI agent ecosystem the engineering team uses daily.
I've led teams, mentored juniors, coordinated across 12+ engineers, and turned hand-rolled toil into permanent platform primitives. I care about understanding how things work — and I write the runbooks so the next on-call doesn't have to learn the hard way.
I'm certified CKAD, hold a BSc in Computer Systems & Networks (Wroclaw), and care more about understanding how things work than collecting buzzwords.
I'm also the founder of Openerra — a platform & AI infrastructure consulting practice for scale-ups — and the owner of zygadlo.ca (this site).
Resume
Education & Experience
Lead DevOps Engineer
VidIQ — EKS platform, Terraform, security & abuse defense, AI infrastructure
Founder
Openerra — platform & AI infra consulting (multi-repo E2E orchestration, agent fleets, K8s ops)
Director of DevOps & IT
Rocket Financial — IaC, CI/CD, PCI DSS compliance, cloud cost optimization
MTS 2 Software Engineer / DevOps Cloud
PayPal — directed AWS → GCP migration (post Hyperwallet acquisition)
DevOps Engineer / Sr Linux Admin
Hyperwallet — built IaC for AWS/GCP, Blue/Green deploys, 24/7 on-call (moved to Canada)
Systems Engineer
Cisco Systems (UK) — OpenStack hybrid cloud, monitoring, Python/Bash automation
Software Integration Specialist
Nokia Siemens Networks (Poland) — RHEL, Oracle DB, Femto/Small Cells
BSc, Computer Systems and Networks
Wroclaw University of Applied Informatics "Horizon"
CKAD — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (2021)
Services
My Specializations
Engineering Leadership
EM/Director-track operator. Built and led DevOps + IT at a PCI-DSS fintech. Mentored juniors, hired contractors, owned roadmaps, ran cross-team incident response. Comfortable IC, comfortable manager.
Director → Staff ICPlatform Engineering
Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, GitOps, full-stack infrastructure ownership. Not just CI/CD — the whole platform.
Production at scaleSecurity & Abuse Defense
Cloudflare WAF (custom K8s operator), JA3 bot detection, rate limiting, incident forensics. PCI DSS background.
3000+ fake accounts stoppedAgentic Layer & AI Workflows
Multi-agent orchestration in production. Secure read-only Grafana monitoring bot, devops triage agents, evidence-first system prompts, Anthropic + OpenAI + Bedrock failover, MCP tooling. The engineering team actually uses them.
Fleet of 8+ agents in prodFinOps
Data-driven cost analysis — DynamoDB reserved capacity, network egress audits, ARM migration, Redis optimization.
Real savings, not slidesReliability & Incident Response
Postgres ops, Redis incident recovery, monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Sentry), DR & runbooks.
24/7 on-call veteranConsulting via Openerra
For external engagements I operate through Openerra — platform & AI infra consulting for scale-ups.
Talk to memy skills
My Advantages
95%
Kubernetes / EKS
92%
AWS
90%
Terraform
88%
Python / Bash
85%
PostgreSQL
90%
Cloudflare WAF
90%
Docker / Podman
88%
Grafana / Prometheus
90%
Anthropic / LLMs
95%
OpenClaw 🦞
85%
Hermes-Agents
portfolio
Featured Projects
Kubeflare-light — GitOps Cloudflare WAF Operator
Custom K8s operator I built and shipped to production. Two CRDs (WAFRule, RateLimit), full OpenAPI v3 schemas, Helm chart. Currently runs 20+ WAF rules and 15+ rate limits at VidIQ — battle-tested against signup abuse, scraper bots, and card fraud.
BananaBoat — AI Monitoring Agent
AI-powered Grafana monitoring bot with secure read-only access. Used daily by the VidIQ team in production. Anthropic + Bedrock failover, evidence-first prompting.
vidiq-infra — Platform Backbone
Infrastructure backbone for a 348-repo org. 12 Terraform modules, Helm charts, AWS monitoring, CI/CD workflows. Clean separation: infra-iac / infra-apps / monitoring / scripts.
OpenClaw Agent Fleet
A self-hosted fleet of specialized AI agents — personal assistant, coach, accountant, gardener, legal counsel, more. Each with their own memory, tools, and skills. Built on the OpenClaw framework, deployed on a Debian VM, integrated with Mattermost, Slack, Garmin, Linear, AWS, and GitHub.
Signup Abuse Investigation & Defense
Led forensic investigation of a 3,000 fake-account signup attack. IP & domain correlation, bot score analysis, JA3 fingerprinting. Shipped Cloudflare WAF + application-level rate limits via Kubeflare. Attack neutralized, defenses now permanent.
contact
Let's Build Something Solid
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