Mikhail Goltsov
Principal DevOps Engineer SRE Tech Lead at Vay
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Goltsov is a Principal DevOps Engineer and SRE tech lead based in Berlin with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient server, network and cloud infrastructures. He has led large-scale deployments—from 1000+ bare-metal Kubernetes clusters to multi-datacenter high-availability architectures—bringing Infrastructure-as-Code, automation and observability to production at scale. Comfortable across networking, storage, virtualization and distributed systems, he combines deep Linux kernel and networking expertise (eBPF, DPDK, BGP, VXLAN/EVPN) with modern cloud-native toolchains like Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI and Prometheus. A proven technical leader, he bridges business requirements and engineering delivery, repeatedly shipping critical initiatives for automotive and ecommerce environments under tight SLAs. He is pragmatic about tooling choices, often favoring lightweight, battle-tested solutions (k3s, containerd, VictoriaMetrics) to solve operational complexity. Outside day-to-day work he brings a systems-level curiosity—spanning VoIP, NVMe-oF and SDN—that helps uncover non-obvious performance and reliability improvements.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer science/Вычислительные машины, системы, комплексы и сети, Engineer (Specialist), Engineer's degree, Computer science/Вычислительные машины, системы, комплексы и сети, Engineer (Specialist) at Pacific National University
Russian, English
Github Skills (61)
kubernetes10
docker10
bare-metal10
high-availability10
kubernetes-cluster10
graphite10
scheduling10
go10
aws10
aio10
promql10
ansible10
k8s10
database10
kubernetes-monitoring9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MikeGoltsov/CV
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
MikeGoltsov/ISRUpdate
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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