Mikhail Advani
Founder And Cloud Architect at AKM Solutions B.V.
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMikhail Advani is a founder and cloud architect based in Rotterdam with 11 years of experience architecting and automating cloud-native systems across consulting and product environments. He specializes in AWS, Terraform and Kubernetes, blending hands-on infrastructure automation with Agile delivery from roles at ThoughtWorks, Mendix and enterprise teams. As founder of AKM Solutions and advisor at Datamonk, he focuses on turning complex cloud requirements into repeatable, testable platforms. An active contributor to Terratest, he has extended testing coverage for AWS RDS and Terraform plan/assert workflows—bringing rigor to infrastructure change validation. Mikhail’s background in both consultancy and in-house engineering gives him a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to building reliable, production-grade cloud platforms.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityHigh School, High School at St. Mary's School, Pune
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
terraformer10
go10
aws10
rds10
terraform10
testing10
devops9
mysql8
ios-simulator6
xcode6
nagios6
ios6
android6
amazon-s36
adb6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terratest
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 49 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure within the Terratest library, with a focus on testing AWS RDS setups. Their work involved creating functions to retrieve RDS instance details, parameters, and option settings, as well as the port information. They also implemented checks for schema existence in MySQL databases. Furthermore, the user updated the testing setup to use Terraform plan and assert for change validations, expanding the testing capabilities for infrastructure changes.
golangdevopstestinggo-libraryinfrastructure
mikhailadvani/my_utils
Oct 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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