Piotr Trębacz
Devops Leader | Agile & Strategic Corporate Rebel | Good Practices Hoarder | Tabletop Tactician
Warsaw, Poland
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Piotr is a seasoned DevOps leader often inserted deep behind enemy lines - transforming troubled software and processes from chaos into modern standards. He's specialty is combining hard technical skills with soft leadership pragmatism.
Think of him as the lean blackops operative with a 6000+ notes gardened in his Second Brain - bringing unconventional outside-in perspective. He was leading $1M+ digital transformations, accelerating delivery for 150+ engineers, and cutting release cycles from weeks to hours across Air Defense Systems, Banking, Industry 4.0, Logistics, Fuel, Mars Rovers and Gambling sectors
Trusted by the tech community as Code Europe Program Committee member, Ex-GDG Organizer, speaker, he is sharing battle-tested insights happily mentoring younger experts. When not disrupting status quo, you'll find him in legendary Hawaiian shirts, Game Mastering RPGs, building something in his workshop or optimizing board games gameplay tactics with probability.
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Lead your Software Teams like a Dungeon Master
New tech leads often fall into the same traps as bad Dungeon Masters: over-preparing for scenarios that never happen, trying to control the story instead of collaborating on outcomes, and failing to give each team member their heroic moments. The result? "Murder hobos" who don't follow process, rockstar developers who damage team dynamics, and talented engineers who leave because they're stuck in uninspiring stories.
Drawing from battle-tested concepts in Radical Candor, Corporate Rebels, and other leadership frameworks, this talk reveals how the best practices from running successful RPG campaigns translate directly into proven management techniques.
You'll discover practical strategies for turning difficult team conversations into collaborative problem-solving sessions, why effective leaders focus on getting things right, and how to give every team member meaningful ownership while preventing leadership burnout.
Perfect for new tech leads ready to move beyond command-and-control leadership, plus any tabletop gaming enthusiasts who want to level up their campaign management skills!
Presented on Project to Product Summit 2024
Delete all Dockerfiles
Writing a good Dockerfiles is hard enough, teaching others how to do it and keeping it maintained is even harder. So how can you possibly keep touch with multiple teams spinning dozens of projects each? Of course you abstract and metaprogram! But how to avoid NIH syndrome then?
This talk will be about pitfalls of independent fullstack teams dockerizing their applications and showcase the open source solution that's in line with Platform Engineering - Cloud Native Buildpacks.
We will define what is a "Production Ready Container" for everybody and how to trigger its build with one command. I will show how easy it will be to add or expand the technology stacks that you maintain - so you won't need to hunt multiple repositories to change the Dockerfiles in each of them.
Presented various versions on OpenSource Days Warsaw 2024, Code Europe 2024, and All Day Devops 2024
Terraform, day 1001
Have you ever seen a Terraform/OpenTofu tutorial from a perspective of full cloud migration running longer than 5 minutes? Most of them leave you after setting a VPC, VMs and some supplementary resources in the MVP state.
Then You are told to implement that technology in your complex production environment and ... there are enough 2nd day mistakes to conclude that IaaC sucks? Or maybe your company did click-ops till it becomes unmanageable, then fail to implement IaaC as an afterthought?
Well, let me help you understand how to write code for scalable infrastructure that itself also scales. Without costly TACOS platforms that vendor lock you, just your favorite tools.
Let's fast track from typical Terraform Tutorial Repo to Enterprise Level Terraform with good practices gathered by someone who designed and fixed IaaC Architectures for companies ranging scale ups to big corporations!
Presented on DevOps Days Warsaw 2024
Presented of 4Dev Katowice 2025
DevOps Your Brain: Obsidian for Personal Knowledge
In the new economy, basic AI alone cannot capture your unique ideas or solve overload. The future experts will monetize a personal "Second Brain" - a curated digital repository of their thoughts, experiences, frameworks and solutions. This is your personal grimoire in a world where AI is a commodity.
This talk shows lessons learned and possibilities after 3 years of blending Obsidian note app, human intuition and a low-friction pipeline that transforms 6600+ notes into a career-defining asset that truly resonates with individual style.
This talk is for professionals who are tired of losing critical insights and want a systematic approach to ensure their experience accumulates, compounds, and keeps them ahead of the curve. A practical solution to the 'Lost Knowledge' Problem, distilling years of my experience into a reusable assets, reducing the friction of starting and maintaining Second Brain.
Different version was presented on Devfest Warsaw 2025
Escaping the DevOps Hamster Wheel of Busywork
You automate away millions in costs, yet you remain invisible. You’re the first call when things break, but the last person with the authority to truly fix them. This isn't the strategic role you signed up for - it's a hamster wheel of thankless tasks and shifting priorities, and it's time to get off.
This session delivers a practical framework to break the cycle. No vague advice. Just battle-tested tactics to reclaim your focus and prove your value.
You will learn how to:
- Master the art of strategic pushback. Learn to kill low-impact fire-drills and reframe urgent demands by asking one simple question: "To do this, what gets de-prioritized?"
- Make Your Value Impossible to Ignore with the business outcomes that leaders notice and reward, shifting the narrative from a reactive cost center to an indispensable strategic partner.
- Navigate the Real Power Structure by learn to see the corporate machine as it truly operates, not as it's described. Use this insight to bend the unwritten rules and bypass bureaucracy, becoming an effective rebel whose impact is undeniable.
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Piotr Trębacz
Devops Leader | Agile & Strategic Corporate Rebel | Good Practices Hoarder | Tabletop Tactician
Warsaw, Poland
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