Andrei Stepanov
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat EMEA
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Stepanov is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building and maintaining resilient CI/CD infrastructure at Red Hat, where he evolved from Quality Engineer to senior DevOps lead of the OSCI team. He architected and operates the gating systems that run RHEL installability and module testing, led integration of Jenkins with Red Hat’s Vault, and created the RHEL and CentOS Stream CI dashboards used across teams. Comfortable across infrastructure, storage, OpenShift, OpenStack and Jenkins, he’s known for outage recovery, migrating clusters, and bringing internal CI best practices upstream to CentOS Stream. Andrei combines hands-on engineering with mentorship—having guided teammates into leadership—and contributes upstream to projects like avocado-vt, improving VM test configuration and unattended install flows.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Computer Science Engineer (equivalent to a Master's degree), Computer Network Technologies Department, 4, Diploma of Computer Science Engineer (equivalent to a Master's degree), Computer Network Technologies Department, 4 at Nuclear Power University, Obninsk, Russia,Postgraduate student, 05.13.11 Mathematical and software support for computer and computer networks, 5, Postgraduate student, 05.13.11 Mathematical and software support for computer and computer networks, 5 at Postgraduate student of Modern University for the Humanities (Moscow city)
English, Английский, Украинский, Русский
Github Skills (6)
python10
virtualization10
testing9
test-framework9
configuration-management9
git8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
avocado-framework/avocado-vt
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
Avocado VT Plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 65 PRs, 73 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily contributed to the `avocado-vt` project by extending the cartesian configuration functionality, enabling the use of suffixes and join operators to configure virtual machines flexibly. They added support for specifying backend cartesian configs in a test provider's ini file and refined the processing of filters within cartesian configurations. Furthermore, the user made improvements in how the test name is derived for Spice tests and added support for exporting test results to the environment. They also contributed fixes for remote commander operations and improvements to the unattended install process.
plugin
Andrei-Stepanov/avocado-vt
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:61 pushes, 54 branches, 7 comments in 1 year 11 months
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