Dinar Valeev
Technical Lead - Kubernetes Services at Absa Group
Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolDinar Valeev is a Technical Lead specializing in Kubernetes services with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms from SUSE to Absa Group. He combines deep storage and systems expertise—Ceph, IBM Storage, SAN, Tivoli and AIX—with hands-on Kubernetes controller development and service mesh work (Istio/Envoy). At Absa he leads Kubernetes platform efforts and previously bootstrapped controllers and automation as a Lead Platform Engineer. His open-source contributions include backend and testing improvements to the popular external-dns project and DevOps work on k8gb, showing a focus on DNS, GSLB and reliable controller behavior. Dinar’s background in enterprise storage and tape systems gives him a practical edge when designing resilient, stateful cloud infrastructure. Based in Prague, he pairs formal certifications across IBM/SUSE ecosystems with a pragmatic engineering approach to complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Robots and Robotic systems, Robots and Robotic systems at USATU - Ufa State Aviation Technical University
English, German, Czech, Russian
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
cloud-infrastructure10
kubernetes-operator10
automation10
infrastructure10
go10
automation-testing10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
external-dns10
automations10
load-balancer10
kube-controller-manager10
testing9
terraform9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
k8gb-io/k8gb
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:475 reviews, 118 commits, 183 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Dinar primarily focused on improving the k8gb project's infrastructure and automation. They introduced features to validate GSLB specs and updated the controller-gen tool. The user made changes to enhance test setup and workflows, including optimizing resource usage and addressing potential conflicts in parallel tests. The user also refactored CoreDNS service configurations and external DNS integration.
kubernetes-controllergolangkubernetes-global-balancerdns-lbgslb
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 7 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dinar primarily contributes to the `external-dns` project by implementing and fixing features related to DNS record management and provider integrations. They have implemented NS record support for RFC2136 provider. They have also modified controller tests. The user refactored code to use config options. They also appear to be making improvements in the area of testing and controller functionality.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
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