A seasoned engineer with more than ten years of experience in software development and technical leadership. Responsible for designing and leading implementation of large and mid-scale distributed systems in virtualization, cloud supply channel distribution (marketplace), and decentralized digital ledger with a focus on infrastructure and ultimate automation.
Throughout my career, I’ve been driving projects from ideas and proofs-of-concept to real-world solutions and platforms while mentoring both junior and senior engineers so that together we could implement world-class solutions like OpenVZ, Parallels Business Automation, Ingram Micro CloudBlue Connect and Chainstack not overlooking programming and debugging.
Core competence
Transforming business requirements into software solutions from scratch, also work with legacy monsters no matter what, heavy on distributed systems, mostly cloud-native and SRE/DevOps, always with toil elimination in mind. Python (Flask/Django/Postgres), Go, Kubeflow, MongoDB. In love with Kubernetes, GCP/Azure, HashiCorp Terraform, and Prometheus/Grafana advanced adept.
Professional experience
| Period | Position |
|---|---|
| Dec 2019 - present | Senior Manager (Cloud, SRE), Prudential, British multinational life insurance and financial services company. It was founded in London in May 1848 to provide loans to professional and working people. Prudential has 20 million life customers. |
| Sep 2018 – Dec 2019 | Development Leader, Chainstack (Acronis’ spinoff), Singapore A technological startup, multi-cloud, multi-protocol Platform as a Service. Rapidly building, deploying, and managing decentralized networks and services for enterprises and independent developers. |
| Dec 2015 – Sep 2018 | Manager of Development, Ingram Micro Cloud. Irvine, CA Delivering global technology and supply chain services to support cloud aggregation, data center management, logistics, technology distribution, mobility devices. |
| May 2013 – Deс 2015 | Team Leader (DevOps), Parallels, Moscow, Russia Parallels Desktop for Mac, is a software providing hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors. |
| Jun 2011 – May 2013 | Senior Software Engineer, Parallels, Moscow, Russia OpenVZ (Virtuozzo) Linux containers technology developed by Parallels. An ancestor of LXC and Docker solutions. |
| May 2010 – Jun 2011 | Hosting Support Engineer, REG.RU, Moscow, Russia REG.RU is the biggest domain registrar and hosting company in Russia. |
Education
2006-2011 Master’s degree (CS), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications University of Telecommunications and Informatics, Russia.
Patents
- US20180300115A1: Technologies for creating and distributing integration connectors in a cloud service brokerage system
- US20180191718A1: Technologies for securely extending cloud service apis in a cloud service marketplace
- US20190132410A1: System and method for integrating cloud applications into a cloud service broker platform using an automated, universal connector package
Public Speaking
I speak publicly at technical conferences. It helps me sniff the wind about new technologies and find new connections.
Hobby and Spare Time
I’m an engineer deep down and read popular science, a core contributor to helm-gcs project. I’ve been getting my public speaking skills constantly. Avid road bike rider, and finally, a huge fan of laptop stickers - devlids.com.
