Mikhail Zholobov
Member Of Technical Staff at Databricks
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Zholobov is an SRE and DevOps leader with over a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for startups and enterprises, now transitioning into SRE management at Databricks. He has hands-on expertise in Terraform, Terragrunt, ArgoCD, Helm and Kubernetes across GCP and AWS, and has led platform and migration projects (ECS→GKE) that improved reliability and developer velocity. At Billhop and Volvo he founded and scaled SRE/PaaS teams, drove GitOps and IaC adoption, and led SOC2-ready operational and security practices. A pragmatic automator, he has optimized CI/CD pipelines and reduced build times using GCP Cloud Build and GitHub Actions while maintaining strong observability with Datadog and Splunk. Mikhail is also an active open-source contributor to well-known projects like Vagrant, Packer and Minikube, reflecting deep familiarity with virtualization and developer tooling. Based in Stockholm, he blends platform-level strategy with low-level fixes—everything from Terraform modules to subtle VM/provider bugs—helping teams own services end-to-end.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Electric Power Systems and Grids, Engineer's degree Electric Power Systems and Grids at Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alekseev (NNSTU)
Russian, English, Swedish
Github Skills (57)
cookbook10
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
configuration-management10
centos10
bash10
ubuntu10
ruby10
chef-client10
consul10
automation10
packer10
go10
device-driver10
driver10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Parallels/vagrant-parallels
Sep 2013 - Dec 2022
Vagrant Parallels Provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 13 reviews, 751 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily contributed to the Parallels Vagrant Provider by implementing and refactoring core functionality related to the virtual machine's operations. They made changes to improve compatibility with Parallels Desktop 9, corrected template registration, and fixed issues with actions like "up" and "halt". The user also modified IP definition methods and updated guest tools-related code.
vagrantproviderpluginvirtualboxparallels
sous-chefs/consul
Jan 2016 - Mar 2018
Development repository for the consul cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 129 commits, 103 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `consul` cookbook, a configuration management tool, which is likely used for automating the setup of Consul, a service mesh solution. Their contributions included updating Consul versions, adding support for new configuration options, and modifying service definitions for different init systems. The changes involved modifying attributes, templates, and installation scripts to ensure proper Consul deployment and configuration. The user also addressed issues related to logging and file permissions within the service configurations.
cookbookchef-resourceconsulmanaged-by-terraformchef
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