Andrei Taranik
Senior DevOps Engineer at X5 Digital
Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Taranik is a Senior DevOps Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience primarily focused on Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, GKE, DigitalOcean and bare-metal environments. He specializes in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Terragrunt), CI/CD automation, and observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki) to deliver reliable, repeatable production platforms for microservices. As DevOps/SRE and release manager for Neon, he refactored deployment pipelines and hardened CI/CD for a notable serverless Postgres project, improving staging and production releases. His background spans cloud architecture consulting and tech leadership roles where he architected high-performance, cost-effective systems and promoted developer productivity through automation. Comfortable across databases (Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch) and multiple languages’ ecosystems, he pairs deep operational craft with an engineer’s appreciation for efficient Docker image and deployment design. Based in Nicosia, he brings a pragmatic, systems-minded approach that surfaces subtle reliability gains often missed in larger teams.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of System Engineer, Information Technology and Computer Science, Networks, Diploma of System Engineer, Information Technology and Computer Science, Networks at Сибирский федеральный университет
Russian, English
Github Skills (18)
docker10
scripting10
circleci10
dockers10
cicd10
release-management10
script10
ansible10
sh10
ansible-galaxy10
shell10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
rust4
serverless3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:57 reviews, 43 commits, 64 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrei's primary contributions involve managing and improving the deployment and release processes for the Neon database project. This is evidenced by the refactoring of the deployment flow, particularly for staging and production environments, along with the automation of binary retrieval using Docker. They also made crucial fixes to the CI/CD configuration, including changes to Ansible playbooks and CircleCI settings, streamlining and improving the overall release pipeline. Additionally, the user addressed critical issues during deployment, contributing to a more reliable and efficient release process.
autoscalingdatabasepostgresqlserverlesspostgres
cicdteam/nvidia-device-plugin
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
kops hook for NVIDIA GPU Driver and DevicePlugin Installation
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 9 months
drivergpukopsnvidia
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