Alexei Znamensky
IT Architect (Orchestration & Automation)
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAlexei Znamensky is an IT Architect specializing in orchestration and automation with 16 years of experience building reliable, large-scale delivery pipelines and infrastructure. He blends deep Linux/Unix, Java and Python expertise with hands-on Kubernetes and Docker work, and has driven automated build and deployment processes using tools like Maven and Atlassian Bamboo. Alexei has a proven track record in reliability engineering and monitoring—gluing Zabbix and JIRA to automate incident workflows—and scaling systems that process 100+ million records per day across MSSQL, PostgreSQL and MySQL. He’s contributed to the Ansible project and community collections, improving module code and documentation, reflecting a pragmatic open-source mindset. Comfortable across scripting languages (Perl, PHP, Bash, Groovy, JavaScript) and configuration automation with Ansible and Puppet, he combines engineering depth with a focus on process optimisation and measurable operational improvements. Based in Auckland, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and team-level leadership from roles spanning manager to architect.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
A.B.A., Business Administration, A.B.A., Business Administration at Universidade Anhembi MorumbiColégio Marista de BrasíliaUniversity of São Paulo
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (17)
python10
package-development10
plugin-development10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
drupal-module10
documentation10
unit-testing9
pytest9
unit-test9
whitespace6
counter6
loops6
django6
visual-studio-code6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ansible-collections/community.general
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Ansible Community General Collection
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1860 reviews, 298 commits, 776 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexei primarily contributed to the development and refactoring of the xfconf module, focusing on improving its functionality and code structure. They implemented a module helper to streamline module development, including exception handling and dependency testing. The user also rewrote and optimized existing code, such as the xfconf module itself, and introduced changes in the tests, adding new test cases to ensure the correct functionality of the module's properties.
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ansible/ansible
Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:36 reviews, 4 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexei's contributions primarily involve documentation adjustments and the removal of ignore clauses within various Ansible module documentation files. They also made adjustments to module documentation. Additionally, the user addressed typos in the documentation files. These changes suggest a focus on improving the clarity, accuracy, and maintainability of the Ansible project's documentation, especially regarding specific modules' functionalities and usage.
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