Artem Chernikov
Director, Platform Engineering
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolArtem Chernikov is a seasoned platform engineering leader with 14 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms across enterprise and open-source environments. Currently Director, Platform Engineering at Philip Morris International, he has held senior infrastructure and principal engineering roles at SUSE and Wildlife Studios where he led cloud, Kubernetes, networking and service-management transformations. A hands-on engineer with deep Ruby and backend credentials, Artem has contributed to notable open-source projects like SUSE/Portus (auth/token work for Docker registries) and openSUSE/osem, blending operational rigor with API and security-focused development. He’s known for turning organizational change into repeatable delivery — from founding an Agile Guild and coaching hundreds through CAL I trainings to leading full-cycle separation of corporate infrastructure into a standalone business. Based in Nuremberg, Artem pairs pragmatic technical depth with people-first leadership, frequently surfacing improvements that reduce operational risk while speeding delivery.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
School 22Kurgan lyceum 12Information Technology, Information Technology at Moscow modern university for humanities
English, Russian, German
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Github Skills (25)
ruby-rails10
authorizations10
apidoc10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
api10
authorization10
jwt10
ruby-on-rails10
security9
configuration-management9
docker8
database-migration8
dockers8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/osem
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:112 commits, 10 comments, 4 issues in 4 months
Contributions summary:Artem primarily contributed to the Open Source Event Manager (osem) project, focusing on improving existing features, fixing bugs, and updating configurations. They addressed issues in the backend, such as fixing test failures and removing insecure code. Additionally, the user made changes to the frontend, style the factories and adding documentation.
eventsevent-managementrailsrails-applicationtailored
SUSE/Portus
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Authorization service and frontend for Docker registry (v2)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 16 PRs, 16 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Artem primarily contributed to the back-end of the Portus project, focusing on authentication, authorization, and token generation. They implemented API endpoints and configured the application for different environments, including development and production. Their work involved modifying the configuration files and adding new features related to JWT token generation.
authorizationdocker-registryfrontenddocker-distributiondocker
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