Summary
Mikhail Grozak is an experienced Embedded Software Developer and Unix/Linux specialist with two decades of professional experience and a 13-year focused career managing and automating large-scale Linux environments. He led the integration of Ansible at CERN’s accelerator complex, managed over 800 servers, and is an active contributor to Ansible modules (including authoring notable functionality like a “force” file option and yum2/apt2 modules). His background spans infrastructure engineering, telephony and high‑load web stacks, DNS at campus scale, and hands-on hardware knowledge of HP, Supermicro and Cisco platforms. Comfortable across Bash, Python and lower-level C work, he has migrated organizations from Bash/Chef/Puppet to Ansible and delivered production-safe change processes. Multilingual (English, German, French, Russian) and pragmatic, he combines deep troubleshooting skill with leadership in cross-disciplinary teams and a penchant for refactoring legacy tooling into reliable automation.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Magister of Technical Sciences Computer Science, Magister of Technical Sciences Computer Science at Dubna University of Human, Nature and Society
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics at Tver State University
English, French, Russian, German