Summary
Anton Gulenko is a DevOps Engineer and Tech PO based in Freiburg with 13 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Complex and Distributed IT-Systems and built a self-healing cloud platform in his research, applying AIOps techniques across OpenStack, Kubernetes and Ceph. Anton programs primarily in Go and has led global-scale Kubernetes platform work, including a Prometheus/Thanos monitoring architecture for hundreds of clusters. He combines hands-on infrastructure-as-code and automation expertise (Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, Bazel) with product ownership from early-stage startups to large enterprises. Known for bridging research and production, he has repeatedly turned academic ideas into operational tools—such as automated remediation and data-stream processing pipelines—while mentoring engineers and teaching cloud computing.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
Ph.D. Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) Complex and Distributed IT-Systems, Ph.D. Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) Complex and Distributed IT-Systems at Technische Universität Berlin
Russian, English, German