Leonid Makarov
Principal Architect at WeSalute (founded as Veterans Advantage PBC)
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolLeonid Makarov is a Principal Architect with 11+ years of experience designing cloud-native platforms and developer tooling, currently shaping architecture at WeSalute from Strasbourg. He is the creator and long-term maintainer of Docksal, a widely used Docker-powered web development environment, and regularly contributes improvements to its documentation and CI/test scripts. Comfortable bridging hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, he has led cloud and DevOps initiatives across agencies and consultancies in the US and France. Leonid combines a strong academic foundation in computer science with a pragmatic focus on simple, reliable solutions to complex problems, and he frequently shares insights via his GitHub and technical blog. An implicit strength is his ability to translate developer experience improvements into measurable operational gains, informed by years working both as an individual contributor and an architect.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (20)
github-ci10
docker10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
githubaction-workflow10
devops10
documentation10
amazon-web-services9
yaml9
amazon-s39
web-development8
web-development-project8
docksal6
api-gateway6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
docksal/docksal
Jul 2015 - Dec 2022
Unified, Docker 🐳 powered web development environments for macOS, Windows, and Linux
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:49 releases, 114 reviews, 1700 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Leonid primarily focused on improving the project's documentation and test scripts. They updated the documentation with the help of `fin-help-generate.sh` script, implemented enhancements to the documentation pages, and added a feedback mechanism. Additionally, the user made several changes to the test scripts, including standardizing the use of `set -euo pipefail` and added new tests for `fin share-v2`.
windowsdevopswordpresslinuxdocker
docksal/boilerplate-magento-demo
Nov 2016 - Jan 2019
Magento boilerplate with default content powered by Docksal
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
magento2docksalmagentoboilerplate
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