Hello, I’m an engineer and I like to build systems.

That’s me

Contacts & Info

Location: Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg

Professional skills

Experienced with orchestration, clouds, IaC concepts, CI/CD stuff.

My main proficiencies are:

  • General orchestration: Kubernetes, Nomad
  • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform
  • Overall DevOps / Platform approach

Technical stack listed here: stack.yaml

Experience

SRE Engineer at Avito.ru (2023 - …)

Designed and implemented few things:

  • Cluster-wide acceptance and health-check system for ~100 Kubernetes clusters
  • Couple Kubernetes operators to fight toil around RBAC and Nodes management domains
  • GC process which reduced size of internal images registry x20 times (PB/TB scale)
  • Better team tasks scoring system, recurrent alerts digests

Also, encouraged few significant improvements in IaC domain (ArgoCD, ApplicationSets, Helm), wrote number of ADRs and so on.

Software Engineer at Tutu.ru (2022 - 2023)

Writing Golang/Python code for Infrastructure Platform team, making developer experience better.

Lead Engineer at Nexters (2021 - 2022)

GameDev company.

Engineering culture:

  • Introduce and promote platform approach
  • Promote IaC and Everything-as-code approach
  • Implement some CI/CD, linters and other stuff over infrastructure
  • Produce documentation and screencasts on common tasks

Design and implement unified platform offer for number of teams:

  • Build and maintain 12 EKS clusters plus tech strapping
  • Implemented ArgoCD as main CD tool for product teams
  • Some other components are traefik, vector, loki, prometheus, alertmanager
  • Also introduced shared CI/CD pipelines and Helm charts

RnD towards:

  • OPA/Gatekeeper to implement policy-driven best practices
  • Crossplane to ease routine tasks such as S3/RDS deployment
  • Service registry/catalog

DevOps Engineer at Netology (2020, short-term)

Company running education programs.

My responsibility was migration of company’s product from “snowflake” dedicated servers to Openstack VMs with IaC approach.

Also, I did some monitoring and CI activities.

Lead Engineer at Playkot (2018 - 2020)

  • Migration from dedicated servers to Kubernetes, Nomad and VMs
  • Deploys, backups, observability and automation in general
  • Developed few useful tools and services
  • Covered huge part of mission critical stuff with metrics and alerts
  • Built common process on solving projects requests, thus provided some grade of prediction, planning and knowledge sharing
  • Spreaded some vital techs and practices over a company, has been in charge of tech-talks
  • Filled up vacancies, interviewed applicants

DevOps Engineer at Ad Networks (2015 - 2017)

NDA company which later evolved to Roxot.

  • Maintained prod and staging environments of ~100 virtual hosts
  • Built monitoring and logs collections systems
  • Developed some tools and APIs, for example, to manage private DNS zone
  • Covered almost 100% of host and services with Ansible code
  • Started interaction with development teams

Linux SA at Yandex (2014 - 2015)

Yandex is leading Russian Federation web-search engine.

  • Developed and integrated semi-automated system of crash dumps collection
  • Actively participated at the migration from Salt to Ansible
  • Co-working with developers to resolve deploy-related issues
  • Monitoring of 600+ hosts, both virtual and hardware
  • Faulty disks replacements, DNS zone control, escalation of network problems

Head of Technical Support department at FastVPS (2012-2014)

FastVPS is a Hosting Provider with data-centers at Estonia and Germany.

Started as junior support specialist, left as head of department.

As technical support specialist:

  • Managed dedicated servers and OpenVZ containers
  • Assisted in mitigation of HeartBleed bug for 2000+ customers
  • Developed automated diagnostic system

As head of department:

  • Resolved L2-L3 technical issues
  • Managed the team, planned working schedule, vacations
  • Interviewed applicants

Education

  • 2009 .. 2011 - IT in Education specialist, Herzen University
  • 2007 .. 2009 - Physics and Optics specialist, ITMO University

Languages

  • Russian - mother language
  • English - comfortable in discussions around tech domains, almost helpless when it comes to Shakespeare :)