Nikolai Nozhenko
Senior SRE at Yandex
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolai Nozhenko is a Senior SRE with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, production-critical systems across cloud and on-prem environments. He has led end-to-end AWS cloud infrastructure builds using Kubernetes, Terragrunt and ArgoCD, and has hands-on expertise in observability stacks (VictoriaMetrics, ELK, Grafana, Sentry, ClickHouse) to proactively surface reliability and performance issues. At VK he migrated hundreds of petabytes to a new storage engine and maintained live streaming platforms with audiences exceeding 500k viewers, demonstrating both deep systems skills and operational rigor. He also drives cost efficiency through autoscaling (k8s HPA, Karpenter) and has significantly contributed to CI/CD automation and error-routing systems. Based in Belgrade, Nikolai combines low-level Linux/DB tuning and configuration management with product- and security-oriented collaboration, making him effective at turning complex infrastructure challenges into reliable, auditable services.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Information Systems and Technologies, Specialist, Information Systems and Technologies at The Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
English
Github Skills (37)
python10
automation10
ansible10
devops10
ssh10
network-configuration9
infrastructure-as-code9
sentry8
django8
two-factor-authentication8
authentication8
portal8
factor8
monitor8
cookie8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
niknozhenko/pyptly
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:112 commits, 157 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
repelista/py-daemon-skeleton
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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