Ilya I is a seasoned Linux administrator and DevOps professional with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating high-availability systems, automation, and virtualization stacks. Based in Bangkok, he has a strong track record across self-employed consulting and earlier roles where he implemented backups, monitoring, network-boot HA clusters, Puppet/Spacewalk automation, and CI pipelines. Comfortable across cloud-adjacent technologies and private CDN/LAMP/LEMP environments, he repeatedly introduced virtualization (Proxmox, VMware) and enterprise services like Active Directory, Zimbra, and Atlassian tooling. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the GemRB game engine by modernizing Python tooling and formation generation, showing attention to legacy systems and data correctness. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he combines a physics background from Novosibirsk State University with a curiosity for new technologies and a long history of reliable infrastructure delivery.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, 4, Bachelor's degree, Physics, 4 at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware’s Infinity Engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 reviews, 13 commits, 12 PRs in 10 days
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily contributed to the game engine's formation generation scripts. They converted the `make_formation.py` script to Python 3 and fixed several issues to align formation generation with the current `formatio.2da` data. The user's work involved modifying existing formations and adding new ones, ensuring the game engine accurately renders character formations. The commits demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the game engine's core functionality.
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 23 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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