Oleksandr Kovalenko
Site Reliability Engineering at Blacklane
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOleksandr Kovalenko is a Site Reliability Engineering leader based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput systems and leading engineering teams. He combines hands-on expertise deploying Kafka on EKS, optimizing data pipelines and databases, and driving SRE adoption to cut downtime and speed up processing by orders of magnitude. As an engineering manager he scaled teams, improved hiring and onboarding, and partnered with product and data stakeholders to eliminate waste and deliver measurable business outcomes. A pragmatic mentor, he’s reduced pipeline runtimes threefold, implemented standardized SLIs for critical services, and personally contributed backend analysis code to the ALICE (ALICE Analysis Repository) project—showing a curiosity that spans production systems to scientific data work.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Enterprise Economy, Master's Degree Enterprise Economy at Kyiv National Economics UniversityIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, German, Ukrainian
Github Skills (9)
data-analysis10
root-view10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
document-root10
physics9
exp9
experiment9
alice9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alisw/AliPhysics
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
ALICE Analysis Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 62 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Oleksandr primarily focused on implementing and refining the trigger analysis selection process within the ALICE Analysis Repository. Their contributions involved adding trigger analysis selections, integrating related helper functions, and modifying existing code to improve trigger efficiency. The user's work included defining and utilizing relevant histograms for data analysis, and introducing new functionalities in the form of photon candidate selections and related code.
physicspythoncernanalysisalice
kqf/root-recipes
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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