Mikhail Sakhnov
Software Engineer at Databricks
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Sakhnov is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems, currently at Databricks and previously a core contributor to the k0s Kubernetes distribution. He specializes in Go and has a strong track record across roles—from developer to tech lead—owning full-stack product delivery and operational concerns. His work on k0s includes core API server, kubelet configuration, etcd management, and DevOps automation, reflecting deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes internals. Past roles span high-performance systems at Unity, large-scale retail and platform services at Lazada and Mirantis, and real-time media infrastructure, showing versatility across domains. Based in Espoo, Finland, Mikhail favors pragmatic tooling choices and rapidly learns new stacks when they solve real problems. He blends autonomous execution with coordinated team leadership, prioritizing reliable, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Computer Sciences (MGUPI)
English, Russian, cloud, Finnish
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
go10
etcd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
yaml9
cicd8
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
k0sproject/k0s
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
k0s - The Zero Friction Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 493 reviews, 374 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the k0s Kubernetes distribution. The contributions included fixing bugs, implementing features like smoke tests and etcd management commands. The user also worked on the core components by modifying the API server and kubelet configuration, alongside addressing build-related issues, showcasing experience with both backend code and DevOps tasks related to the Kubernetes environment.
zerofrictionk8skubernetesk0s
mikhail-sakhnov/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years
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