George Pchelkin
DevOps Engineer at Vivid Money
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Pchelkin is a DevOps engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating Linux-first infrastructure for large-scale services. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, IaC (Pulumi, Ansible), CI/CD and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and has led migrations, PCI DSS readiness and team-level infrastructure planning. At Kaspersky he managed 300+ physical and virtual servers, built bespoke installers and monitoring exporters, and at Vivid Money he continues to streamline cloud-native deployments with Helm, Argo CD and Jenkins. He favors automation, security hardening and clear documentation, and often closes incidents with targeted Python fixes or custom exporters he authors. Outside work he maintains a popular Telegram audio-downloader bot that handles over 10,000 daily requests, showing a pragmatic focus on scalable backend tooling and user-facing reliability. Based in Lisbon with B2 English, he blends strong systems depth with practical product-minded engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Русский, English
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Github Skills (11)
macos10
python10
http-request10
subprocess10
osdev10
telegram-bot10
regex9
shell7
ruby-on-rails6
unicorn6
ruby6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gpchelkin/scdlbot
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
Telegram Bot for downloading MP3 rips of tracks/sets from SoundCloud, Bandcamp, YouTube with tags and artwork.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 972 commits, 225 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on the development and maintenance of a Telegram Bot for downloading audio from various streaming services. Their contributions centered around setting up and configuring the bot's core functionality, including file handling and URL parsing. The commits show a strong emphasis on implementing and debugging features related to the download and sending of audio files. This involved extensive work around the bot's initial setup.
downloadtelegram-botdownloadingpythonmp3
gpchelkin/gpchelkin.github.io
Nov 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:100 commits, 107 pushes, 1 comment in 8 years 2 months
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