About

Hello! I’m Hubert, a software engineer passionate about building rock-solid software. I’m currently leading a pack of Rust engineers at ChainSafe Systems, where we are building Forest, a Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol and other projects in the ecosystem and general open-source software.

Team vim and Linux. Trust me, this is the year of Linux on desktop. I promise. 🐧

I promise not to AI-generate the posts in this blog. I might use it (along with Grammarly) to proofread, but that’s about it.

Expertise

With over 12 years of experience in the IT industry, I have developed a strong foundation in various technologies and programming languages across multiple domains. To name a few:

• C and C++ for embedded payment terminals, massive cybersecurity systems and microservices. Pointer arithmetics and Turing-complete templates are fun. So is undefined behaviour and SIGSEGV.
• Rust for high-performance microservices and blockchain applications. I failed miserably at preaching Rust to Java engineers.
• Kafka and gRPC for microservices communication. My favourite saying during the standup is no brokers.
• Terraform and Terragrunt for Infrastructure as Code. I like it when it works. I don’t like it when it doesn’t. I also don’t like when it works, but the code is not in the repo.
• Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration. It works on your machine? Great! Let’s ship your machine!
• GitHub Actions and Gitlab for CI/CD. YAML development at its finest.

and many more, some of which left terrible scars. I also ate a lot of shoe leather and fell into the timezones madness. Don’t ask me about them. Ever.

I worked in companies of different shapes and sizes, from startups to large corporations, using various methodologies, from Sc[r]um to Waterfall. I mostly ended up with Kanban on steroids. This is the Way.

Go to a local grocery shop, petrol station or convenience store in Poland. You will likely use a payment terminal I helped develop from the ground up. :)

For the past few years, I have been involved in the Filecoin project, where I have been working on different aspects of the ecosystem, including:

• Building and maintaining Forest, a Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol.
• Contributing to various Filecoin projects, including FVM and the Filecoin Built-in Actors.
• Smaller contributions to other ecosystem projects, such as rust-libp2p and Lotus.

I’m also the co-author and maintainer of gRPC bench. Almost a thousand ⭐ which is the only correct way to measure the quality of the project!

Contact

Feel free to reach out to me via LinkedIn or mail. Links are in the navigation bar on the left.