Anatoly Pugachev
System Engineer at Maxima Telecom Inc.
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAnatoly Pugachev is a seasoned System Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Linux-centric virtualization and storage infrastructures, currently doing DevOps and platform engineering at Maxima Telecom. He specializes in running diverse workloads—databases, application servers and monitoring—across VMs, containers and Kubernetes, and manages CI/CD pipelines and GitLab at scale. His background includes deep exposure to enterprise SANs, VMware/RHEV/KVM, Solaris/AIX systems and backup/HA solutions from prior roles, giving him strong cross-platform troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills. Active in open source, he has contributed to core Ansible projects, improving system fact gathering and adding OS support (including Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Gentoo and Alpine), which reflects an emphasis on portability and code quality. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation and reliable platform operations, and he brings an uncommon blend of legacy UNIX expertise and modern cloud-native tooling. Based in Moscow, he combines infrastructure craftsmanship with continuous improvement of operational workflows.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technologies / Computer Science, engineer, Bachelor's degree, Information Technologies / Computer Science, engineer at Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI)Automation Control Systems (ASU), Automation Control Systems (ASU) at Saratov State Technical University
English, Russian
Github Skills (15)
system-administration10
aix10
hp-ux10
linux10
automation10
automations10
ansible-galaxy10
solaris10
devops10
python10
ansible10
testing8
git7
bash6
community-management5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Sep 2017 - Apr 2021
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:13 commits, 38 PRs, 85 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Anatoly primarily contributes to the Ansible project by enhancing and expanding its system fact gathering capabilities, particularly for operating systems like Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. Their work includes adding support for retrieving Fibre Channel WWN information across multiple OS and improving uptime measurement for Solaris. They also refactor existing code, remove external calls and incorporate unit tests, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
ansible-collections/community.general
May 2020 - Dec 2021
Ansible Community General Collection
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Anatoly primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and supporting different operating systems, specifically focusing on improving the community.general Ansible collection. They addressed bugs related to the `capabilities` module, updating regex expressions and implementing version matching for `parted`, and added support for Gentoo and Alpine Linux in the timezone module. They also made minor documentation updates.
ansibleansible-collection
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