Alex Vidchinkin
Site Reliability Engineer at SimplePractice
Spain
Summary
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SeniorAlex Vidchinkin is a Site Reliability Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building and operating Ruby on Rails platforms and scalable cloud infrastructure. Based in Spain and formerly working from Kiev, he blends backend engineering with DevOps—specializing in AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Redis and PostgreSQL—to deliver resilient e-commerce and SaaS systems. At companies like SimplePractice, Blackbell and Choxi he led deployments, wrote automation for SSL/domain management, introduced ChatOps, and stabilized large AWS clusters through provisioning and CI/CD improvements. He has a strong track record of surviving high-stakes events (Black Friday) and bringing systems to zero late-night incidents, plus practical security experience including PCI DSS compliance and code audits. Comfortable across the full stack, Alex uniquely pairs deep Ruby expertise with production-grade infrastructure design and operational discipline.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
aws9
ruby-on-rails6
liquid6
ace-editor6
stacktrace6
capybara6
exceptions6
emmet6
configurations5
dnsimple5
ansible4
dns3
tower3
infrastructure-management3
cloud-infrastructure2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ulmen/ulmen.github.io
Aug 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
hodama/opsworks-cookbooks
Sep 2016 - Jul 2019
Chef Cookbooks for the AWS OpsWorks Service
Contributions:26 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 9 months
cloud-infrastructuredevopsinfrastructureinfrastructure-managementopsworks
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