Andrew Babichev
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at LiveLink Technology
Chichester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Babichev is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer based in Chichester with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and operational excellence across startups and scale-ups. He progressed from software engineering into platform and infrastructure leadership roles at companies including Grammarly and LiveLink Technology, focusing on DevOps, reliability, and scalable systems. An active open-source contributor in the Ruby ecosystem, he has meaningful contributions to prominent projects like Sidekiq and Bunny, improving CLI behavior and robust connection/TLS handling for RabbitMQ clients. Known for a pragmatic "buy it, break it, fix it" approach, Andrew blends deep system-programming roots with practical automation and debugging skills to deliver resilient production platforms.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
School #102, DonetskDiploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Donetsk CollegeSpecialist degree, System Programming, Specialist degree, System Programming at Donetsk National Technical University
Russian, English, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (19)
messaging10
background-process10
amqp10
testing10
background-processing10
mq10
jobservice10
sidekiq10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
job-search10
amq10
background-task10
cli10
ssl9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sidekiq/sidekiq
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the command-line interface (CLI) for the Sidekiq background processing system. They extracted parts of the CLI test for better organization, moved demonization and process ID (PID) writing, and ensured proper setup of option phases. Moreover, they added gems for debugging and included configurations and default behaviors for processing queues.
background-jobsrubysidekiqjrubyjobs
ruby-amqp/bunny
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Bunny is a popular, easy to use, mature Ruby client for RabbitMQ
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on enhancing the Bunny Ruby client for RabbitMQ by implementing features and addressing issues related to connection handling, particularly concerning URI parameters and TLS configurations. They added specs to test the parsing of URI parameters for heartbeat and TLS options, as well as refactoring code related to TLS settings and authentication mechanisms. Moreover, the user made updates to the docker entrypoint script and spec helpers to optimize functionality and testing.
ruby-clientrubyamqpmessagingamqp0-9-1
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