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Jakub Nowakowski

Jakub Nowakowski focused on reliability engineering for Percona’s database tools, delivering four critical bug fixes across percona/percona-xtrabackup and percona/percona-server. He addressed domain migration in bootstrap scripts and corrected file movement semantics for RocksDB, improving deployment and backup consistency using Bash and file system operations. In percona/percona-server, Jakub resolved audit log rotation stalls and prevented data loss under high concurrency by introducing sequence-numbered log files, leveraging C++ and concurrency control. He also mitigated integer overflow in audit log size tracking, switching to 64-bit arithmetic for safer log management. His work demonstrated strong depth in system programming and database administration.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

0%Features

Repository Contributions

4Total
Bugs
4
Commits
4
Features
0
Lines of code
306
Activity Months3

Work History

October 2025

1 Commits

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 — Percona Server reliability hardening focused on the audit-logging path. Delivered a critical bug fix: Audit Logging Overflow Prevention by changing the log-size counter accumulator from int to unsigned long long, addressing an overflow scenario that could cause rotation-related issues. Commit: 4d8941ba91c296c14dbc7ef64cd0f30272289a0e. This prevents unintended deletion of rotated log files when total size exceeds 2GB and improves reliability for large log sets. No new user-facing features this month; the changes deliver substantial business value through increased stability, data integrity, and scalability of production logging.

September 2025

1 Commits

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 monthly summary for developer work on percona/percona-server: Implemented Audit Log Rotation Collision Prevention to eliminate rotation stalls and prevent data loss during concurrent rotations. Introduced sequence-numbered log file names to ensure immediate rotation without overwriting within the same second. This fixes a critical stability issue in the audit subsystem and improves reliability for production deployments.

August 2025

2 Commits

Aug 1, 2025

Two critical fixes delivered in 2025-08 for percona/percona-xtrabackup: 1) PXB-3591 domain migration fix updating bootstrap.sh to downloads.percona.com; 2) PXB-2724 RocksDB move-back fix ensuring actual moves rather than copies. Impact: improves deployment reliability after domain changes, fixes data movement semantics for RocksDB, reducing downtime and support overhead. Technologies: Bash scripting, domain migration handling, RocksDB integration, Git-based patching.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness100.0%
Maintainability90.0%
Architecture90.0%
Performance90.0%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

C++Shell

Technical Skills

C++ConcurrencyDatabase AdministrationDatabase AuditingDatabase BackupDevOpsFile System OperationsLoggingPercona XtraBackupRocksDBScriptingSystem Programming

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

percona/percona-xtrabackup

Aug 2025 Aug 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

C++Shell

Technical Skills

Database BackupDevOpsFile System OperationsPercona XtraBackupRocksDBScripting

percona/percona-server

Sep 2025 Oct 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

C++

Technical Skills

C++ConcurrencyDatabase AuditingFile System OperationsLoggingDatabase Administration

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