Aleksandr Groshev
Staff Network Reliability Engineer at IONOS
Germany
Summary
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SeniorAleksandr Groshev is a Staff Network Reliability Engineer based in Germany with 8 years of experience automating service provider and data center networks. He combines deep hands-on skills with Python, Ansible, GitLab CI, Docker and Junos PyEZ to build CI/CD-driven network automation that reduces operational toil and improves resilience. Aleksandr has managed and upgraded core Juniper, Cisco and F5 infrastructures while also integrating tooling for DDoS mitigation and traffic engineering (Arbor, Bird). He contributes to open-source Ansible collections—fixing nmcli networking bugs and adding multi-address support with tests—demonstrating attention to both production reliability and test automation. At IONOS he now designs higher-level tooling and evaluates solutions to boost performance and security across large-scale networks. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that bridges Linux, networking and software engineering practices.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
ansible-galaxy10
pytest10
python10
unit-test10
ansible10
ipv49
ipv69
automated-tests9
bash5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ansible-collections/community.general
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Ansible Community General Collection
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to the Ansible Community General Collection by fixing bugs in the `nmcli` module, specifically related to network interface configuration. They addressed issues with MTU settings, IPv4 and IPv6 address handling, and the `addr-gen-mode` and `ip6-privacy` options. Their work included implementing multiple IPv4 and IPv6 address support. Additionally, the user wrote and modified unit tests to ensure the correctness and reliability of the code.
ansibleansible-roleansible-collection
haddystuff/community.general
Nov 2021 - Nov 2023
Ansible Community General Collection
Contributions:53 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years
ansiblevagrantansible-rolenetwork-automation
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