Ando Roots
DevOps Engineer
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolAndo Roots is a Tallinn-based DevOps Engineer and ethical hacker with 14 years of hands-on experience across security, back-end development and operations. A former full‑stack developer comfortable in PHP, Python and APIs, he now focuses on penetration testing, enterprise security hardening and security training while still building automation, CI/CD and DevSecOps tooling. He runs his own 42U home rack and designs infrastructure from the ground up using LAMP, Docker/Kubernetes and cloud services, pairing practical ops skills with a hacker’s curiosity about how things break. An improviser and maker, Ando brings six years of improv performance and teaching plus Arduino/RPi projects to his creative problem-solving approach. He’s self-taught in many areas and prefers API-first design, combining developer ergonomics with a pragmatic security mindset.
14 years of coding experience
Basic education, Basic education at Kunda's GymnasiumBachelor's degree (unfinished), IT Systems Development, Bachelor's degree (unfinished), IT Systems Development at Estonian Information Technology CollegeImprovisational theatre, Improvisational theatre at Upright Citizens Brigade Training Center
Estonian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
php-library10
continuous-testing10
faker10
vault10
openshift10
intellij10
uglifier10
continuous-delivery10
intellij-plugin10
code-editor10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
asset-pipeline10
sprockets10
artillery10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
anroots/ee-domains
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
List of Estonian top-level internet domains
Contributions:133 commits, 22 PRs, 579 pushes in 3 years 6 months
privacydomain-listestonianaxfrinternet
anroots/kohana-commoneer
Sep 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:95 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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