# Nikolai Rodionov ``` > Location: Düsseldorf, Germany > Email: allanger@zohomail.com (preffered) > Phone: 015223284008 > Github: https://github.com/allanger ``` --- ## About me

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I'm a DevOps engineer (or SRE if you wish) with 5++ years of hands-on experience with a decent amount of tools that are most probably used or going to be used in your company. One of the most important tools that I love working with and want to continue working with, is Kubernetes. At least, while I don't see any better alternative to it. I think that containers themselves are one of coolest inventions in development, and I'm trying to use them as long as it's possible. Also, I believe that every routine must be automated, because routing is a boring job that lets people lose focus and make mistakes. I think that there are several things that a good SRE or DevOps engineer must be able to do: - To build reliable and stable infrastructure - Keep this infrastructure up-to-date - Keep all the source and instructions of this infrastructure clean and simple - Avoid a human factor as long as possible - And when it's not possible to avoid it, not to be afraid to take responsibility Also, I think it's important that before implementing anything, an engineer has understood all the requirements and checked tools that can fulfil them. I often see, how people try to use a tool for its name but not for its functionality, and hence they have to do a lot of additional work and deal with compromises. And if nothing really can fulfil those requirements, you need not be afraid of writing something new *and open-source it*.
## Experience **Grandcentrix**: SRE > 02.2023 - until now ``` | Microsoft Azure | Containers - Kubernetes - Helm - Kustomize | PostgreSQL | Bash - Python | Prometheus - Grafana - Loki | ArgoCD - Github Actions | Sops | Terraform ``` **Klöckner-i**: DevOps Engineer > 01.2022 - 01.2023 ``` | GCloud - Microsoft Azure | Linux - Containers - Kubernetes - Helm - Helmfile | Percona Mysql - Postgresql | Bash | Prometheus - Grafana - Elasticsearch - Kibana | ArgoCD - Gitlab CI - Github Actions | Sops | Ansible ``` --- **Itigris**: DevOps Engineer > 07.2019 - 12.2021 ``` | AWS - Yandex Cloud | Linux - Containers - Kubernetes - Helm - Helmfile - Kustomize | Bash | Gitlab CI - Drone - ArgoCD | Postgresql - Redis | Java - JS - Go | Ansible - Terraform | Prometheus - Grafana - Loki - Elasticsearch - Kibana ``` --- **Etersoft**: DevOps Engineer > 03.2017 - 06.2019 ``` | Bare metal - Proxmox - Virtual Box | Linux - Containers - Networks | Bash - Perl | Mysql - Postgresql | Minio - Ceph | Gitlab CI | Ansible ``` ## A little bit more about me - I love to work with `Kubernetes`, but not with `yaml`. - I'm a huge fan of [Helmfile](https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile). - I have written several small cli tools in Rust, that you might find in my [GitHub profile pins](https://github.com/allanger) (they are not perfect, but I'm working on it). - I'm contributing to [db-operator](https://github.com/kloeckner-i/db-operator). - I'm trying to automate everything until I'm losing control over something that is automated. - I love Perl, although I don't even remember how to write code with it, but I would be somehow thrilled to have any ability to work with it in production - I also think that everything is better in Rust, or at least in Go *(if Bash is not enough)* I have a blog (written-as-code) that is deployed to K8s (https://badhouseplants.net/), with the source code stored in a self-hosted Gitea, that is also deployed to K8s alongside the CI/CD system where this blog is being built and published. This CV is also being built as a part of the CI process, and then uploaded to `minio` storage that is also ~~surprisingly~~ running in this cluster. So you can download the latest version of CV here: > But I can't guarantee 100% availability because it's a one-node k8s, and sometimes I need to do a maintenance work