Anatoli Babenia is an adaptable DevOps and backend engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient infrastructure, contributing to notable open-source projects like Terraform’s GitLab provider, dive, and BleachBit, and improving Docker and deployment workflows for MindsDB. He blends systems-level expertise (Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible) with pragmatic engineering—refactoring legacy tooling, hardening build pipelines, and shipping cross-platform fixes that improve developer UX. Anatoli’s background spans blockchain R&D, fintech integrations, and production filmmaking, giving him a rare mix of technical rigor and creative process design. Comfortable operating in distributed, volunteer-driven projects, he’s earned community recognition (top StackOverflow percentile) and even a paid security bounty for responsible disclosure. Now based in Saudi Arabia, he seeks teams that use capital as a force for positive impact while valuing flexible, non-traditional problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Automation, M.S., Automation at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Contributions:13 reviews, 106 commits, 37 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Anatoli significantly contributed to improving the cheat.sh project by addressing both back-end and DevOps-related tasks. They implemented features, fixed bugs, and optimized performance in the Python-based back-end. Key contributions included refactoring the code, adding a debug option for the server, and improving the test suite by improving the test execution and output.
The Command Line Interface to work with an Open Build Service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 reviews, 16 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Anatoli primarily contributed to the back-end logic and command-line interface of the Open Build Service CLI tool. Their work includes code refactoring for improved distribution handling, such as simplifying looping mechanisms. Additionally, they implemented fixes for configuration file creation and removed Python 2 compatibility code. Furthermore, they focused on optimizing the output of the `dists` command and enhanced the `build` command by incorporating debug prints and refining repo selection logic.
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