Igor Raits
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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RockstarIgor Raits is a pragmatic infrastructure and platform engineer with 13 years of experience building cost-efficient Big Data, ML, and cloud systems for startups and enterprises. He has architected private and public cloud platforms that scale to petabytes and millions of users, and his optimizations at GoodData delivered hundreds of thousands in monthly savings through hardware choices, performance tuning, and vendor negotiation. A hands-on leader, he has driven SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance efforts while operating as product/component owner, architect, and manager across multi-team deliveries. Igor is also an active open-source contributor to foundational Linux packaging and build projects (RPM, libsolv, DNF, Meson, util-linux), showing deep low-level and packaging expertise that informs his production-grade automation. He combines systems-level C/Python work with Terraform, Kubernetes/OpenStack, and CI/CD design to turn complex operational challenges into repeatable, auditable processes. Based in Prague, he’s known for aligning technical strategy with business outcomes and mentoring teams to ship resilient, cost-conscious platforms.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Russian, English, Czech
Github Skills (43)
dependency-management10
zsh-completion10
character-encoding10
python10
package-management10
back-end-development10
api-design10
format-table10
formatting10
packaging10
dnf10
bash10
bash-completion10
build-system10
c1110
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
rpm-software-management/mock
Jul 2017 - Jul 2021
Mock is a tool for a reproducible build of RPM packages.
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 59 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Igor focused on improving the build process of RPM packages within the Mock tool. Their contributions included enhancing the handling of dynamic build dependencies, addressing issues related to source file inclusion, and optimizing the build steps by incorporating the `--noprep` flag. They also updated the code to better support the `--nodeps` flag and enabled dynamic BuildRequires by default, enhancing the tool's overall functionality.
mockrpm-packagesrpmreproducible
openSUSE/libsolv
Jul 2016 - Jul 2021
Library for solving packages and reading repositories
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 20 commits, 42 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Igor primarily contributed to the libsolv library by modifying bindings, and core functionalities. Their work involved exposing new functions, fixing return types, and adding functionality for managing data. They also implemented and added the `pool_solvable2id()` function and improved memory management within the solver. The changes showcase their expertise in the library's internal workings and API design.
repositoriessolving
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