Alexey Zhiltsov
Linux System Administrator
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Zhiltsov is a pragmatic Linux System Administrator with 11 years of hands-on experience operating and scaling large, production-critical infrastructures across Europe. He has driven reliability at scale—managing hundreds of metric-intensive servers at Booking.com, optimizing fleets to meet SLOs without growth, and ensuring zero major outages through automation and deep troubleshooting. His background spans low-level UNIX flavors and enterprise hardware to modern DevOps practices, with a track record of reducing monitoring noise, extending hardware lifecycles, and simplifying complex infrastructure. Now based in the Randstad and working at Nebius, he combines perfectionist attention to detail with practical efficiency, often finding hardware/software tweaks that deliver outsized operational savings. An engineer by training in microelectronics, he brings a systems-thinking mindset and rare comfort across both legacy architectures and contemporary cloud-native tooling.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Materials and Components of solid-based microelectronics, Engineer's degree Materials and Components of solid-based microelectronics at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University named after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)
Russian, English
Github Skills (92)
dashboard10
grafana10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
architecture10
whisper10
graphite10
golang10
data-visualization10
mysql10
analytics10
go10
agent10
prometheus10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
azhiltsov/buckytools
Apr 2017 - Jul 2022
Go implementation of useful tools for dealing with Graphite's Whisper DBs and Carbon hashing
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
golangdbshashingwhisperuseful-tools
azhiltsov/grafana
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
The tool for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics & dashboards for Graphite, InfluxDB & Prometheus & More
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
analyticsdashboardsinfluxdbgrafanaprometheus
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