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Kacper Małachowski

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Kacper Małachowski

Over ten months, contributed to kyma-project/test-infra by delivering 30 features and resolving 12 bugs, focusing on CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and security hardening. Leveraged technologies such as Terraform, Go, and YAML to modernize deployment workflows, optimize CI performance, and enforce robust IAM and secret management practices. Work included decommissioning legacy Prow infrastructure, implementing Workload Identity Federation for secure GCP access, and refining Docker build processes. Emphasized clean code, documentation, and configuration hygiene, resulting in reduced maintenance overhead, improved onboarding, and enhanced reliability of automated releases. Demonstrated depth in DevOps, backend development, and cloud infrastructure management throughout.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

71%Features

Repository Contributions

79Total
Bugs
12
Commits
79
Features
30
Lines of code
40,186
Activity Months10

Work History

May 2026

4 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2026

May 2026: Delivered security-focused CI/CD governance for kyma-project/test-infra, strengthening the repository's deployment discipline and reducing risk of misconfigurations. Implemented CSP header for the dashboard-token proxy, introduced zero-elevation PR workflows with permission gates, added environment gates to production deployments, and removed invalid environment blocks to streamline workflows. These changes improve security posture, standardize deployment checks, and enhance reliability of automated releases across the infra. Demonstrated a proactive security-first approach and strong automation discipline with measurable governance improvements.

April 2026

4 Commits • 2 Features

Apr 1, 2026

Monthly summary for 2026-04: kyma-project/test-infra delivered essential tooling infra improvements to strengthen CI/CD security and ready the platform for migration to tooling-infra. Implemented GitHub Workloads Identity Federation (WIF) bindings and IAM impersonation to enable authenticated Terraform planning/execution against GCP, consolidating WIF bindings under authoritative iam_binding configurations to prevent drift. Initiated state detach for migration prep of kyma-modules to tooling-infra while preserving underlying GCP resources.

March 2026

4 Commits • 2 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026: Security and production-readiness improvements in kyma-project/test-infra focused on stabilizing production deployment, tightening access control, and cleaning IaC. Delivered targeted fixes and policies, enabling safer production operations and more reliable automation across the test-infra repository.

February 2026

1 Commits

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026: Delivered a Terraform output hygiene improvement for kyma-project/test-infra to suppress non-essential Artifact Registry fields from Terraform outputs. By explicitly setting update_time and create_time to null in the output definition, the IaC output remains accurate and uncluttered, eliminating false positives in plans. Implemented via commit bc542a69c0a5c8cb50f6ff5889ecd964a622dacb. This reduces CI noise, speeds triage, and improves reliability of infrastructure state representation.

January 2026

3 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2026

In January 2026, the kyma-project/test-infra stream delivered security and configurational reliability improvements for reusable workflows by enhancing the Doc-collector's secret access with IAM permissions and local variables, and by updating the IAM member principal format to support reusable workflows. It also resolved a deployment risk by cleaning up a naming conflict in the configuration by removing the test_infra repository data. These changes reduce permission-related failures, improve workflow reliability, and streamline future deployments.

August 2025

26 Commits • 8 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 (2025-08) highlights a complete decommission and cleanup cycle for kyma-project/test-infra. The team focused on removing Prow-related deployment artifacts, tooling, docs, and references, followed by a broad cleanup of documentation and governance artifacts to reduce maintenance burden and security risk. This work stabilized the repository, reduced the attack surface, and improved onboarding for new contributors while preserving core CI reliability.

July 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for kyma-project/test-infra focusing on security hardening of CI configuration. Implemented a focused feature to remove an unused ExternalSecret from prow configuration, targeting the sa-prow-job-github-issues secret. Change reduces risk by eliminating unreferenced credentials and simplifies configuration and maintenance of CI secrets.

June 2025

30 Commits • 13 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 performance highlights for kyma-project/test-infra focused on accelerating CI, hardening workflow reliability, and reducing maintenance overhead. Delivered fetch-depth optimization for CI checkout with a default depth of 5, standardized CI workflow triggers across pipelines, and introduced a custom checkout action to simplify PR handling. Added merge group support to pull-plan-prod-terraform workflow and applied action references to avoid cloning the tests-infra repo. Moved controller filters to the .github directory, fixed action path and permissions in reusable workflows, and improved code quality and documentation. Implemented Git safety and identity improvements (safe.directory settings, identity renaming, and shared permissions) to enhance security and collaboration. These changes reduced CI run times, increased pipeline stability, and lowered long-term maintenance costs while showcasing expertise in CI/CD, Git best practices, and automation engineering.

May 2025

1 Commits

May 1, 2025

Monthly work summary for 2025-05 focusing on kyma-project/test-infra improvements and a critical Docker image build bug fix.

April 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary for kyma-project/test-infra: Delivered key CI/CD and infra improvements focusing on Terraform linting, version compatibility, and deployment workflow modernization. These changes enhance code quality, broaden infrastructure compatibility, and streamline production releases, delivering clear business value in faster, safer deployments and reduced maintenance.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness91.0%
Maintainability89.4%
Architecture88.6%
Performance88.0%
AI Usage21.8%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashDockerfileGoHCLMarkdownSVGTerraformYAMLgomarkdown

Technical Skills

API IntegrationAPI securityBackend DevelopmentBash ScriptingCI/CDCI/CD ConfigurationClean CodeCloud FunctionsCloud IAMCloud InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure ManagementCloud SecurityCode CleanupCode RefactoringCodebase Cleanup

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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

kyma-project/test-infra

Apr 2025 May 2026
10 Months active

Languages Used

HCLTerraformYAMLyamlDockerfileBashMarkdownGo

Technical Skills

CI/CDDevOpsGitHub ActionsInfrastructure as CodeLintingOpenTofu