Renat Nurgaliyev
Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRenat Nurgaliyev is a Senior Systems Engineer with nine years of focused experience at the intersection of ISP/enterprise networking, SRE, DevOps and SDN, currently contributing to Cloudflare’s global Edge platform from Berlin. He has a proven track record designing and operating large-scale public and private cloud infrastructure, OpenStack-based IaaS, and carrier-grade networks while prioritizing automation, correctness, and maintainability. Renat blends hands-on networking expertise (MPLS, mobile backhaul, VoIP) with software-first practices—treating infrastructure as code and favouring open standards and open source. His background includes successful SDN/NFV presales projects integrating Cisco NSO, Juniper Contrail and various controllers, plus reducing OPEX through targeted network optimizations. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach: automation that simplifies rather than complicates, and readable, reliable code over clever-but-unmaintainable hacks. He brings deep operational experience from both service providers and cloud platforms, making him comfortable solving thorny networking problems in globally distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Other
Russian, English, Turkish, Kazakh, German
Github Skills (153)
python10
terraform10
automation10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
linux10
home-automation10
garden10
iot10
openstack10
terraform-provider-openstack10
internet-of-things10
terraform-provider10
facebook10
asyncio10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rnurgaliyev/s3-ssl-certs
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
Ansible role to fetch SSL certificates from S3
Contributions:6 releases, 24 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years
letsencryptsslssl-certificatesansibletls
rnurgaliyev/sdr-flighttracking
Jan 2019 - Jan 2025
RTL-SDR flight tracking for Raspberry Pi
Contributions:25 PRs, 50 pushes, 21 branches in 6 years 1 month
flightrtlraspberry-pirtlsdrsoftware-defined-radio
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