Oleksij Samorukov
Containers & Provisioning Operations Director
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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SeniorOleksij Samorukov is a Containers & Provisioning Operations Director based in Prague with 17 years of hands-on experience scaling secure, cloud-native infrastructure and platform engineering for enterprise and client-facing environments. He has progressed from UNIX and Linux systems engineering to senior leadership at McKinsey and now PwC, blending deep operational expertise with strategic delivery and provisioning at scale. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he still contributes code to notable open-source projects like GNOME’s GIMP and GTK, where he has fixed macOS-specific UI and backend issues, and to Domoticz, improving cross-platform stability and networking. Oleksij’s background includes high-performance ecommerce and systems roles (Magento, eBay) that inform his focus on reliability, automation, and platform interoperability. He brings a rare combination of low-level systems knowledge, cloud architecture, and production-oriented leadership that helps bridge engineering teams and business stakeholders.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, Ukrainian, Russian, Czech
Github Skills (23)
objective-c10
compatible10
debug10
c-language10
gdk10
gui-programming10
c1110
networking10
c1710
compatibility10
macos10
cprogramming-language10
linux9
sys9
gtk9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
GNOME/gimp
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on platform-specific UI/UX and bug fixes)
Full-stack Developer (with a focus on platform-specific UI/UX and bug fixes)Contributions:47 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Oleksij's commits primarily involve fixing platform-specific issues for macOS, including screen resolution detection, focus issues with plugins, and compilation problems on older versions of macOS. They also addressed issues related to the GIMP dashboard and the screenshot plugin on macOS, adapting the codebase to leverage macOS-specific APIs like Cocoa and Carbon for improved functionality and compatibility. Their contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the GIMP codebase and its cross-platform challenges.
gnome-shell-extensiongnomegitlabgimpread-only
GNOME/gtk
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Oleksij primarily focused on fixing issues and making improvements related to the GTK library's Quartz (macOS) backend. Their contributions include addressing window focus problems by adjusting the initialization sequence of the application, and correcting issues with how keyboard input is handled. Additionally, they made changes to fix a duplicate entry in the object definition and to use the bundle ID instead of the package name for previews.
pygobjectgnome-shell-extensiongtk-rsgnomegitlab
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