Oleksandr Kushchenko
Site Reliability Engineer at Palantir Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOleksandr Kushchenko is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently ensuring resilient infrastructure at Palantir Technologies in London. He brings a strong systems background grounded in applied physics and radio physics degrees, which informs his analytical approach to reliability and performance. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the widely used confd project by adding and hardening an AWS SSM backend with integration tests and pagination, demonstrating cloud integration and test-driven improvements. Oleksandr combines hands-on DevOps skills with backend engineering sensibilities, favoring pragmatic refactors and robust testing to make distributed systems easier to operate.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Physics at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
English, Ukrainian
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testing10
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Github contributions (5)
kelseyhightower/confd
May 2017 - Jun 2018
Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 120 commits, 79 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Oleksandr primarily focused on adding and testing an AWS SSM (Simple Systems Manager) backend to manage configuration files, demonstrating expertise in integrating with cloud services. They developed an integration test suite, including a mock SSM server, to validate the functionality of the new backend. Furthermore, the user refactored the SSM backend to use the hierarchical key structure, showing a good understanding of the project's architecture and data management. The user also updated dependencies and implemented pagination support to improve the backend's performance.
etcdconfigurationconfiguration-filesdynamodbapplication-configuration
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