Alyona Sviridenko
Software Engineer at GitHub
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlyona Sviridenko is a hands-on software engineer and technical leader with over a decade of experience building scalable backend systems, interactive frontends, and automation platforms across health tech, media, and cloud. Currently at GitHub, she modernizes large GraphQL and CI/CD ecosystems, improves reliability through monitoring and incident response, and drives accessibility and UX upgrades by migrating legacy UIs to React. She pairs deep engineering skills in .NET, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and DevOps with a product-minded focus on reducing technical debt, improving developer experience, and shipping measurable outcomes. Her background leading cross-functional teams at Akvelon honed her ability to align OKRs, customer needs, and operational SLAs while automating DevOps workflows across Azure and GitHub Actions runner images. Known for clear documentation and knowledge sharing, she also brings an uncommon creative balance—recharging through ceramics and long bike rides around Amsterdam.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
specialist degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 4, specialist degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 4 at Yaroslavl State University
Русский, English, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
windows10
powershell10
github-ci10
macos10
githubaction-workflow10
build-automation10
azure8
microsoft-azure8
postgresql7
xcode7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
actions/runner-images
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
GitHub Actions runner images
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1109 reviews, 35 commits, 425 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alyona primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the GitHub Actions runner images, making changes related to software installations and configurations on both Windows and macOS environments. They updated PowerShell scripts to install Azure modules and PostgreSQL, along with modifications to VS2019 installations. Additionally, the user addressed build environment specific issues like Xcode versions.
actions-runnerci-cdgithub-actions-runnerrunnercicd
maxim-lobanov/runner-test-repo-win
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:17 commits in 12 days
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