Summary
Leonid Podolinskiy is a DevOps and platform engineer with eight years of experience building and operating resilient, multi-cloud production systems, now focused on platform work at Workday. He has deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Golang, Terraform, Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD), and has maintained production k8s operators and self-service developer tooling to boost engineering velocity. His background spans large-scale networking and DDoS protection at Wix and Imperva, where he redesigned multi-cloud network IaC and led automation that improved failover and cache performance. Comfortable across cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), he combines low-level networking knowledge with platform engineering pragmatism. A pragmatic tinkerer, he routinely automates operational toil in Python and Go and has experience shipping open-source components such as a company k8s operator. Located in Haifa, Israel, he brings a network-first perspective to platform reliability and developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering technologist, Engineering technologist at Kazan Federal University
Russian, English, Hebrew