About

Wojciech Trocki

Engineer, API Platform at MongoDB

Poznań, Poland · Building platforms for developers worldwide

Pronounced "Voytek"

I'm a platform engineer specializing in API infrastructure, authentication, and developer tooling. At MongoDB I work on the API Platform team building identity and access layers for cloud services — including authentication for programmatic access and AI agents, traffic shaping middleware, and API governance.

Previously a Principal Engineer at Red Hat Cloud Services, where I led a mobile backend team building SDKs, GraphQL backends, and SSO integrations that federated enterprise identity into cloud services. I'm an active API Champion, AsyncAPI contributor, and open-source maintainer.

I build AI-augmented engineering tools — MCP servers, Claude Code skills, and developer workflows that make engineers more productive. I actively speak at and attend industry events.

Areas of Expertise

AI-Augmented Engineering

Build AI-augmented developer workflows — MCP servers, coding agent skills, and code generation tooling. Maintain open-source AI tools. Speak at industry conferences on the next generation of AI-assisted engineering.

API Specs & Standards

Drive spec-first API design with OpenAPI and GraphQL. Lead schema governance, automated linting pipelines, and API design reviews. Contribute to the AsyncAPI specification. Build AI-assisted tooling for API review and code generation.

API-Driven Tooling

Build SDKs, Terraform providers, and code generation pipelines from OpenAPI specs. Own API client tooling — templates, validation, and automated release workflows. Enable developers to consume APIs in the languages and tools they already use.

API Middleware

Authentication & Identity

Build OAuth 2.0 machine-to-machine authentication for programmatic access and AI agents. Author threat models for token management and identity federation. Orchestrate auth frameworks across SSO, MFA, and social login.

Traffic Shaping

Design traffic shaping middleware protecting API infrastructure at scale. Implement token bucket algorithms with distributed state, circuit breaking, and policy-driven throttling. Establish latency SLOs and drive reliability programs.

API Lifecycle & Versioning

Design API versioning strategies and deprecation policies. Manage the full API lifecycle from design review through GA to sunset — balancing stability with evolution.

Analytics & Governance

Instrument API usage analytics, telemetry, and observability pipelines. Drive API governance through design standards, automated linting, and review workflows that scale across engineering orgs.

Cloud Native Infrastructure

Operate polyglot platform infrastructure (Go, Node.js, Java) at scale — container orchestration, service mesh, monitoring and metrics pipelines, and performance optimization. Drive reliability programs with SLOs and operational best practices.

Engineering Principles

Structure over Detail

Design docs define scope, interfaces, and risk — not implementation minutiae. Think in contracts and boundaries to unblock parallel delivery at AI-native speed.

Enable Others

Drive architecture and bridges that unblock adjacent teams. Invest in shared patterns, specs, and tooling so the next person moves faster.

Design for Security, Durability, Operational Excellence & Performance

Treat these as first-class features, not afterthoughts. Assess early, plan ahead, bake them into architecture decisions from the start.

Ownership

Own what you build — decisions, outcomes, and mess. Push back on process that slows delivery without adding clarity or safety.

Elsewhere

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