Oleksandr S
Senior DevOps Engineer at Aerospike
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOleksandr S is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-complexity, system-level tooling that helps teams ship and validate software faster. He combines cloud engineering and SRE expertise with a strong automation background—having built zero-touch, multi-cloud test frameworks at Redpanda and production-grade metric and TLS solutions at Intel. He has a track record of collapsing multi-week validation and deployment processes into days through pragmatic tooling, benchmarking, and user-level behavior simulations. Comfortable in consultant-level and TAM/TME roles, he blends hands-on coding (Python, Rust, C++) with orchestration across GCP, AWS, Azure, OpenStack and Kubernetes. An active contributor to the Redpanda streaming project’s test suite, he focuses on realistic stress scenarios like partition and infinite-retention tests to surface hard-to-find failures. Based in Austin, he pairs deep technical craft with mentorship and communication improvements cultivated during a recent sabbatical focused on parenting and leadership.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Bachelors degree , Economics, Bachelors degree , Economics at Kharkiv State Academy of Food Technology and Management
Github Skills (9)
testing10
python10
test-automation10
kafka9
stream-processing8
storage-engine8
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
go5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:314 reviews, 205 PRs, 547 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Oleksandr primarily focused on enhancing and extending the test suite within the Redpanda project. Their contributions included creating new test suites to specifically target partition tests and infinite retention scenarios. The user refactored existing tests to ensure efficient resource utilization. The commits indicate a focus on writing tests in Python and potentially modifying C++ code.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
savex/bash_scripts
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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