Andrei Klychkov
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Klychkov is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building and operating infrastructure, databases, and automation at scale, currently contributing at Red Hat from Brno. A seasoned PostgreSQL DBA and Linux enthusiast, he blends deep operational expertise—tuning high-availability Postgres clusters and kernel-level performance—with pragmatic software craftsmanship in Python and Ansible. As an active open-source maintainer and member of the Ansible Community Steering Committee, he has driven core database modules and docs across flagship projects like ansible/ansible and AWX. His work uniquely spans backend engineering, technical writing, and community leadership, reflecting a focus on code quality, maintainability, and contributor onboarding. A less obvious strength is his toolkit fluency—from C and libpq to AWX and containerized automation—enabling him to improve both low-level DB behavior and high-level orchestration.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Law, Master's degree, Law at Arkhangelsk State Technical University
English, Russian, Czech
Github Skills (15)
plugin-development10
package-development10
ansible-galaxy10
database-administration10
postgresql10
indexer10
indexing10
python10
drupal-module10
ansible-awx10
documentation10
ansible10
testing9
community-management5
rest-api4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ansible-collections/community.general
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Ansible Community General Collection
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 442 reviews, 139 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrei's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the PostgreSQL database functionalities within the Ansible community. Their work includes removing unnecessary spaces and making the interfaces of `exec_sql` clearer, suggesting a focus on code quality and maintainability within the PostgreSQL modules. They have made significant changes to modules related to PostgreSQL owners, tables, tablespaces, and sequences. Their contributions touch upon core elements of database management and operation.
ansibleansible-collection
ansible/ansible
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
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:Backend Developer & Database Engineer
Backend Developer & Database EngineerContributions:159 reviews, 422 commits, 789 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily focused on creating and modifying PostgreSQL database indexes within the Ansible `ansible/ansible` repository. The commits demonstrate the creation of a new module for managing PostgreSQL indexes, including adding functionality to handle returns, fix documentation, and address code typos. Furthermore, the commits show this user's technical expertise by including implementing of storage parameters and modifying code to work with Check Mode.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
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