Alexey Bychko
MySQL Performance Engineer at DC Sport LTD
Limassol, Cyprus
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Top SchoolAlexey Bychko is a seasoned DevOps and release management specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines, packaging systems, and high-load scalable infrastructures for companies like MariaDB, Percona, Yandex and Rostelecom. He excels in Jenkins, Kubernetes, AWS and MySQL ecosystems, having led migrations, created enterprise release processes from scratch, and optimized build farms and RPM packaging for critical database projects. His work on MariaDB/server demonstrates attention to detail in deployment safety—fixing init script interactions and upgrade-time log handling to prevent data corruption. As an independent consultant and lead engineer, he marries deep systems-level skills (from kernel tweaks to cloud automation) with pragmatic release engineering that reduces operational risk. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, he contributes to open-source database tooling and brings a rare blend of release discipline and systems performance tuning to complex distributed environments.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Medical College #3 of NovosibirskManagement, Management at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)School #160
Spanish, English, Russian
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Github Skills (22)
scripting10
packaging10
cmake10
script10
rpm10
package10
packager10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
devops10
mariadb9
linux9
database-administration9
systemd8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MariaDB/server
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:22 commits, 41 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for MariaDB server, contributing to the RPM packaging system. They addressed issues related to dependencies, specifically dealing with conflicts between packages, and also modified configuration files to ensure the correct handling of logs during updates. Moreover, they fixed typos in the postinst scripts and made changes to the systemd/SysV init script interactions to improve server restarts on upgrades and prevent data corruption. This indicates a focus on streamlining the build and release pipeline.
licensedsql-servermysqlsqlmariadb-server
abychko/openstack-image-creator
Aug 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:115 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
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