Oleksandr Levchenkov
CTO New Business at Kiss My Apps
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Top SchoolOleksandr Levchenkov is a Kyiv-based technology leader and startup CTO with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native back ends and developer tools. He has moved between founding roles and core open-source contributions—most notably to OpenTofu and Percona operators—where he implemented runtime class support, sidecar integrations, encryption fixes and backup/PITR features for production operators. At Headway he modernized backend infrastructure and later co-founded Flamework before joining Kiss My Apps as CTO for new business, blending product instincts with deep DevOps and Kubernetes expertise. He also mentors and invests in the local tech ecosystem through Projector Institute and Promprylad Foundation, reflecting a commitment to Ukrainian tech community growth. Notably, his work spans both low-level reliability improvements and developer-facing tooling, making him equally comfortable shipping critical infra fixes and leading product-driven engineering teams.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
IT Architect, Computer Science, IT Architect, Computer Science at UNIT FactoryMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Kyiv National Economics University
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Github Skills (19)
opentofu10
kubernetes10
docker10
back-end-development10
configmap10
kubernetes-operator10
dockers10
terraform10
mongodb-database10
terraformer10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
backend10
mongodb10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opentofu/opentofu
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:579 reviews, 185 PRs, 317 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Oleksandr primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure and functionality of OpenTofu. Their commits focused on fixing bugs, improving encryption methods, and updating dependencies. These changes included addressing a panic related to encryption in remote and cloud backends, removing environment variables for GCP KMS keys, adding OpenBao as a key provider, and implementing fixes in state management. They also added functionality to the test framework.
percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
Percona Operator for MongoDB
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 22 commits, 34 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Oleksandr contributed to the Percona Operator for MongoDB by implementing features related to runtime class support and sidecar container integration. They also made updates to the PBM (Percona Backup for MongoDB) and operator-sdk packages, indicating involvement in backup and recovery processes. The user's commits show contributions to both the core functionality of the operator and the supporting infrastructure, including PITR functionality and custom configuration.
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