Nikita Bykov
Senior DevOps Engineer at Liga Stavok
Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Bykov is a Senior DevOps Engineer with six years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating resilient Kubernetes-based infrastructure for finance and betting platforms. He has led on-prem Kubernetes fleet implementations, GitOps-driven CI/CD, and observability initiatives that turned incident detection into rapid business-aware responses. Comfortable across Terraform, FluxCD, Helm, Cilium, Istio, and Vault, he combines platform architecture with day-to-day SRE tasks like DR testing, node administration, and service migrations. His open-source contributions to GitHub Actions runner images show attention to build-image reliability and system-level tooling optimizations. Trained originally in missile and space systems, he brings a methodical, systems-thinking approach to complex infrastructure problems while enjoying cross-team collaboration and mentoring.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Бакалавр, Missile and Space Systems Technology, Бакалавр, Missile and Space Systems Technology at Балтийский Государственный Технический Университет «ВОЕНМЕХ» им. Д.Ф. Устинова
English, russia
Github Skills (12)
configuration-management10
github-ci10
bash10
linux10
githubaction-workflow10
macos9
automation9
automations9
windows9
android-sdk8
javas8
java8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
actions/runner-images
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
GitHub Actions runner images
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:74 reviews, 28 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the GitHub Actions runner images repository by implementing and maintaining tools and configurations for various software packages and system utilities. Their work includes installing Alibaba Cloud CLI, Android NDK, and GNU Tar, as well as making modifications to existing tools like Swig. Furthermore, the user has implemented checks for disk space availability, enhanced documentation, and improved the system by updating the configuration files. The user also addressed system maintenance tasks like moving preinstalled Java distributions.
actions-runnerci-cdgithub-actions-runnerrunnercicd
nikita-bykov/setup-python
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of python
Contributions:7 PRs, 50 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year
github-actions-workflowpythonworkflow-actionsset-upworkflow
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