Igor Beliakov
Senior Platform Engineer
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Beliakov is a Senior Platform Engineer based in The Hague with 7 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and platform tooling, primarily on Kubernetes, Go, and Azure. He combines enterprise-grade platform work at Shell and WellSync with consulting engagements, bringing deep operational experience across networking, systems, and DevOps. An active open-source maintainer and contributor, he works on high-profile projects like cert-manager and the grafana-operator, notably adding Azure Workload Identity support and advanced Grafana auth/ingress features. Known for a pragmatic “can-fix-anything” approach, Igor focuses on reliable, testable integrations and has a background that spans TAC-level network support to platform engineering. As a non-EU kennismigrant, he’s established a strong foothold in the Dutch tech scene while keeping a people-first philosophy: "Love people and use things because the opposite never works."
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Incubator Program 2016, Engineer Incubator Program 2016 at Cisco Systems, Inc.Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at National University of Mineral Resources (Cisco Networking Academy)Specialist (Engineer) Computer Science, Specialist (Engineer) Computer Science at National mineral resources university (University of mines)
English, Russian, Dutch
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
kubernetes-operator10
cloud-infrastructure10
grafana10
microsoft-azure10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
azure10
cloud-services10
operator10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana-operator
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
An operator for Grafana that installs and manages Grafana instances, Dashboards and Datasources through Kubernetes/OpenShift CRs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:187 reviews, 25 commits, 121 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Igor implemented several features related to Grafana configuration and data source management within the Grafana Operator. They added support for various authentication features, including TLS settings for Generic OAuth and GitLab-specific authentication attributes. The user also contributed to features related to Ingress configuration and deployment probes. Furthermore, they refactored code to improve readability and maintainability, and added tests for improved reliability.
observabilityopenshiftoperatorgrafanaprometheus
cert-manager/cert-manager
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Igor focused on implementing Azure-related features within the cert-manager project, specifically adding support for Azure Workload Identity in the Azure DNS provider. Their contributions included adding new functionalities, refactoring existing code, adding tests, and providing comments for better understanding and maintainability. The user also addressed potential issues with token refresh errors, ensuring smoother integration with Azure services. These modifications enhance the project's ability to automatically manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes using Azure infrastructure.
cert-managerletsencryptssltlscertificates
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