Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Senior Production DNS Engineer at Yahoo
Marble Falls, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksey Tsalolikhin is a Senior Production DNS Engineer with 14 years of systems and DevOps experience, currently supporting planetary-scale DNS/GSLB infrastructure at Yahoo. A master generalist in Linux/UNIX operations and configuration management, he has repeatedly improved reliability and reduced costs—most notably driving a 100x reduction in data processing costs at Spokeo and automating tens of thousands of servers with CFEngine at DIRECTV. He’s built SRE practices and progressive delivery pipelines (Argo CD/Rollouts) as an early SRE hire, and enhanced monitoring, backup and automation practices across multiple companies. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved CFEngine examples and added diagnostic scripts that make large deployments easier to manage. Based in Marble Falls, Texas, Aleksey combines deep operational rigor with a knack for pragmatic tooling and documentation that scales.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
No degree Biochemistry, No degree Biochemistry at Brandeis University
English, Russian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
scripting10
configuration-management10
automation10
script10
sh10
cfengine10
automations10
shell10
gitlab-ci9
infrastructure-as-code9
gitlab9
system-administration9
aws-glue6
git-archive6
gitlab-ci-runner6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cfengine/core
May 2013 - Nov 2018
CFEngine Community
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:74 commits, 8 PRs, 30 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Aleksey primarily focused on improving the existing examples within the CFEngine core repository and contributing useful scripts. These changes include standardizing formatting, clarifying examples with comments, and correcting bundle naming for consistency across examples. Additionally, the user added a diagnostic script (`cf-info.sh`) and a script to detect duplicate host keys, enhancing the usability and maintainability of the project. These updates aid in diagnosing reporting issues and streamlining the analysis of CFEngine deployments.
configuration-managementautomationcfengineinfrastructure-as-codec
atsaloli/cf3-tutorial
Oct 2015 - Dec 2022
CFEngine Tutorial
Contributions:185 commits, 4 PRs, 131 pushes in 7 years 3 months
cfengine
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