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Nikolai Rodionov

> Location: Hamburg, Germany
> Email: allanger@zohomail.com (preffered)
> Phone: 015223284008
> Github: https://github.com/allanger

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About me

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

Giant Swarm: Platform Engineer | 12.2023 - Until Now

| Containers - Kubernetes - Helm - Kustomize
| Flux Circle-CI
| Sops Age

Grandcentrix: SRE | 02.2023 - 11.2023

| Microsoft Azure
| Terraform
| Containers - Kubernetes - Helm - Kustomize
| PostgreSQL
| Bash - Python
| Prometheus - Grafana - Loki
| ArgoCD - Github Actions
| Sops

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

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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

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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.
• I have written several small cli tools in Rust, that you might find in my GitHub profile pins (they are not perfect, but I'm working on it).
• I'm contributing to 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: https://s3.badhouseplants.net/public-download/n.rodionov.pdf

But I can't guarantee 100% availability because it's a one-node k8s, and sometimes I need to do a maintenance work