Summary
Anton Baranov is a Sr. Systems Operations Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating Linux-based infrastructure and CloudOps at The Linux Foundation. He brings deep expertise in firewalls, routing, VPNs, load balancing and automation—having led firewall teams, built IPVS/ipset solutions and developed Python tools and Puppet classes to manage large, highly available fleets. His career spans network engineering and Unix administration in high-scale gaming environments where he supported hundreds of virtual servers, global VPNs, and complex proxy and mail stacks. Based in Longueuil, Quebec, he pairs low-level networking skills (iptables, pf, BGP) with pragmatic automation to reduce toil and improve reliability. A multilingual technologist with a master’s in IT, he’s an open source enthusiast who thrives on solving cross-discipline operational challenges that bridge networking, systems, and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Kharkiv National University of Radio and Electronics
Secondary school 109 (with language specialization in French)
English, French, Ukrainian, Russian