Norbert Skalski
About Norbert Skalski
Norbert Skalski is the Principal SRE at project44 in Chicago, Illinois, with extensive experience in development and support roles across various industries.
Current Position at Project44
Norbert Skalski is currently serving as Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Project44 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In this role, he is responsible for leading the design, development, and rollout of a companywide incident management protocol. He has also developed a performance analysis toolkit using Rust and implemented visibility tools through Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana to achieve total service visibility. He directly supports feature teams in all aspects of reliability at Project44.
Previous Experience at VillageMD
Before joining Project44, Norbert Skalski held various roles at VillageMD in Chicago, Illinois. He worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer in 2021 for two months. Prior to this, he was a Full Stack Engineer on the telehealth team for six months from 2020 to 2021 and on the interoperability team for one year from 2019 to 2020. During his tenure, he contributed his expertise in development and operations, playing key roles in different projects.
Earlier Career Roles
Earlier in his career, Norbert Skalski served in several prominent technical positions. He worked at Barksdale Trading Group as CTO / Principal Developer for three months in 2019 and at Tawa Trading, LLC, a subsidiary of Simplex Investments, LLC, as Principal Developer for a year from 2017 to 2018. He also had a four-year stint as Senior Developer at WHC Trading LLC / Cutler Group LP from 2013 to 2017 and spent five years as a Developer at WHC Trading LLC / Ronin Capital from 2008 to 2013. His early roles include an Operations Developer position at Getco LLC from 2006 to 2008 and an IT Manager role at Montell Auto Group from 2003 to 2005.
Educational Background
Norbert Skalski holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Loyola University of Chicago, where he studied from 1999 to 2003. This formal education laid the foundation for his extensive career in technology, spanning roles from technical support and IT management to principal developer and site reliability engineering.
Technical Skills and Expertise
Throughout his career, Norbert Skalski has developed a broad range of technical skills. He has extensive experience with cloud platforms such as GCP and AWS, and has worked with containerization technologies like Kubernetes. He also has expertise in infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, and is proficient in multiple programming languages, including Java, Python, Go, Rust, and C/C++. Moreover, he has utilized various databases such as Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, and MariaDB, and has experience with technologies like Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Artifactory, and Vault. His expertise extends to performance analysis, reliability engineering, and development operations.