Aleksey Hariton is a founder and Lead DevOps Engineer with nine years of experience driving infrastructure and application automation for large-scale deployments. Based in Minsk and active at EPAM Systems, he popularizes DevOps practices like Infrastructure as Code, Test-Driven Infrastructure, and infrastructure CI/CD across distributed teams in the US, UK and Germany. He has hands-on expertise with configuration management tools such as Chef and Helm and has delivered DevOps services ranging from small 3–5 developer teams to programs supporting 20+ teams and hundreds of engineers. At DevOpsPass AI he focuses on simplifying DevOps tooling and workflows for broader adoption. His open-source contributions include quality improvements and test refactoring for the widely used sous-chefs/mysql cookbook, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and cross-platform compatibility. Earlier career work leading Unix infrastructure projects demonstrates a strong operational background in high-availability systems, monitoring and centralized operations.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informational Systems and Networks, Bachelor's degree, Informational Systems and Networks at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Contributions summary:Aleksey primarily focused on refactoring and improving existing tests within the `mysql` cookbook repository. Their contributions involved updating and enhancing test files related to client package installations, specifically targeting various MySQL versions and operating systems. They also introduced new test functions and refactored test structures to improve clarity and maintainability. This work ensured the quality and compatibility of the cookbook across different MySQL versions.
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