Alexander Rukletsov
Engineering Manager at Red Hat
Capbreton, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolAlexander Rukletsov is an engineering manager and former staff/principal engineer with 11+ years building and operating distributed systems and cluster management software, now leading teams at Red Hat. Trained in computer science and mathematics, he brings deep hands-on expertise in C++, Python, Go and system-level tooling, with notable contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Apache Mesos, DC/OS and the StackRox Kubernetes security platform. He excels at making code faster and simpler—reducing cognitive load through the right abstractions—while mentoring junior engineers and running technical interviews. His work spans container runtimes, cluster orchestration, and security-focused image handling and TLS improvements, reflecting both backend depth and DevOps fluency. Based in Capbreton, France, he pairs research-rooted rigor with pragmatic engineering instincts and a track record of improving testing and deployment infrastructures.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Belarusian State University
English, Russian, Russian, German
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Github Skills (29)
mesos10
docker10
c-language10
marathon10
process-management10
resource-management10
dockers10
go10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
container9
kubernetes9
security9
python9
system-design9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mesos
Mar 2015 - May 2019
Apache Mesos
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:250 commits, 16 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Apache Mesos project by implementing features related to the management and monitoring of tasks and resource allocation. They worked on enhancing the reaper functionality by exposing poll intervals and modifying shutdown procedures. They also focused on extracting and generalizing components, and introduced grace period settings in the executor commands to support fine-grained control over task lifecycle.
apachebig-datacloudmesosjava
stackrox/stackrox
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:549 reviews, 154 commits, 125 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the core functionality of the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform, primarily focusing on image reference parsing and management within the rendering pipeline. They addressed bugs related to the parsing of command-line flags, specifically the `--main-image` flag. In addition, the user was involved in refactoring the code by renaming the file structure for consistency. Further contributions included the implementation of TLS handling for enhanced security.
containerscheckliststackroxsecurityrisk
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