Evgeni Golov
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Leichlingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEvgeni Golov is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with 26 years of experience building reliable, secure infrastructure and automation tooling across backend, DevOps and full‑stack domains. He combines deep systems-level expertise (Linux, containers, LXC hardening, virtualization) with hands-on application work, from improving Ansible core tooling and Foreman/Katello integrations to front-end UX tweaks on small JS projects. A prolific open-source contributor, Evgeni has strengthened security and test coverage in high-profile projects like Ansible and Foreman while also adding pragmatic usability features to tools such as vagrant-libvirt and tower-cli. Based in Germany, he pairs academic grounding in computer science with a long consulting background, so he often surfaces practical fixes—like preventing predictable filenames or world-readable archives—that quietly avert real-world incidents.
26 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur math computer science, Abitur math computer science at Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium, DüsseldorfMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Düsseldorf
Russian, German, English, French
Github Skills (98)
python10
kats10
testing10
plugin-development10
command-line-interface10
c1110
perl10
ruby10
c1710
security10
javas10
automation10
junit10
ansible-galaxy10
bootstra10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
evgeni/qifi
Mar 2013 - Sep 2021
pure JS WiFi QR Code Generator
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 103 commits, 11 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Evgeni primarily focused on front-end development, enhancing the user interface and user experience of the WiFi QR Code Generator. Their contributions included adding features like a footer with a logo, an "about" section, and tooltips. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the form, making the key field a password input by default and introducing a display key checkbox. They also updated the project to use Twitter Bootstrap and added print and export functionality.
qrcodecode-generatorqr-code-generatorqr-codepure-js
nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins
Feb 2014 - Aug 2022
Nagios Plugins
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Evgeni primarily contributed to the `check_mailq.pl` plugin, enhancing its functionality and usability. They implemented autodetection of mail server implementations (sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail, nullmailer), added documentation, and incorporated the detected mail server into the output for better visibility. Furthermore, the user improved the codebase by fixing an issue related to closing the mail queue handle. They also refactored the code to use FindBin for finding the library path and adding it to the `use lib` statement in the relevant plugins.
nagiosloadtestingnagios-pluginsplugin
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