Summary
Aleksandr Ostapenko is a Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google Cloud with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems across AWS, GCP and bare-metal environments. He combines deep Kubernetes expertise—from bare-metal cluster builds to service mesh design—with strong TypeScript/Node.js skills and practical knowledge of Go, Python, Ruby and C. Aleksandr has repeatedly built infrastructure from scratch using IaC and CI/CD across hybrid environments and has led platform architecture and operations as a co-founder and principal engineer in both startup and enterprise settings. His toolkit spans container orchestration, storage and networking technologies (Ceph, OpenVSwitch), messaging and databases (RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis), and multilingual product localization. Based in Krakow, he brings a rare blend of low-level systems experience and product-minded operations, plus administrative fluency with third-party services that smooth customer-facing workflows.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Hydraulic Machinery Drives and Controls, Master of Engineering, Hydraulic Machinery Drives and Controls at Bauman Moscow State Technical University