Igor Dolzhikov is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Orihuela, Spain, with over 20 years of software development experience and 12 years focused on cloud-native reliability and operations. He architects and operates production-ready Kubernetes platforms on GCP (GKE), builds Go microservice templates and CI/CD patterns that consistently speed delivery, and has led migrations to managed databases to improve performance and resilience. An active backend contributor in open source, he has implemented registrar parsers for the whois project and added cross-platform daemonization and init-system support to Go tooling. Igor blends hands-on systems work (Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, EFK, Ansible, HAProxy) with pragmatic security and ISO-aligned practices like RBAC and Network Policies. Beyond day-to-day SRE duties, he’s delivered business-continuity strategies and spoken at Kubernetes workshops, showing a talent for translating deep technical work into operational and organizational impact.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Programming, Bachelor's degree Computer Programming at Novosibirsk Institute of Electrical Technology
A daemon package for use with Go (golang) services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:27 releases, 1 review, 240 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Igor primarily worked on the `daemon` package, focusing on implementing daemonization functionality for different operating systems, including Linux and macOS. The user's contributions involved developing system-level service management capabilities. The user also worked on supporting different init systems such as SystemV and SystemD, indicating proficiency in DevOps practices for building and deploying services. They also fixed bugs to improve the service.
An intelligent — pure Ruby — WHOIS client and parser.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:22 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Igor contributed to the whois project by implementing parsers for various whois servers, specifically focusing on the rrpproxy.net, tucows.com, gandi.net, ascio.com, yoursrs.com, and nic.es servers. The contributions involved adding new parser implementations and fixing existing registrar field configurations. Furthermore, the user added support for a disclaimer and throttled checking for the whois.tucows.com server and made changes for ICANN compliant whois servers like networksolutions.com and ascio.com.
pure-rubywhois-clientrubywhoisparser
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Igor Dolzhikov - Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Openprovider