Aleksandr Rybolovlev
Software Engineer at Isovalent
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Rybolovlev is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, SRE platforms, and integrations between Terraform and Kubernetes. He has driven production-ready operator work at HashiCorp—authoring the HCP Terraform Operator, certifying it for OpenShift, and adding multicluster support—while contributing upstream fixes and features to the widely used terraform-provider-kubernetes. Comfortable across Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, and major clouds, he pairs low-level networking expertise (BGP, MPLS, IPSec) with automation and observability (Prometheus/Grafana) to solve complex operational problems. Aleksandr has a strong security and networking background from roles at Palo Alto Networks and carrier-grade ISP work, which informs his pragmatic approach to resilient platform design. Now based in Amsterdam and currently at Isovalent, he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership in cross-functional teams. An understated strength is his track record of making edge-case behaviors robust—improving stability and flexibility in core infra components.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU)
Russian, English
Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
kubernetes10
go10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
kubernetes-pods10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-kubernetes
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Terraform Kubernetes provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:256 reviews, 51 commits, 280 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the Kubernetes provider. They addressed edge cases related to job completion and removal, ensuring the provider can gracefully handle these situations. The user also made attributes optional, improving the flexibility of resources like Ingress and validating webhook configuration. Furthermore, they added features, such as supporting HPA container resource metrics and adding attributes to kubernetes services.
providerkubernetesterraformterraform-providerkubernetes-provider
arybolovlev/orkestrator
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:21 reviews, 31 commits, 31 PRs in 4 months
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