Roman Gorodeckij
Founder at The Swing Cats Ltd.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Gorodeckij is a founder and seasoned DevOps engineer with 13 years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean and hybrid environments. He specializes in high-availability systems, Kubernetes and automated infrastructure (Terraform, Pulumi) while focusing on cost-efficient, developer-friendly delivery pipelines and production engineering. As former CTO/Head of DevOps at Setupad and hands-on lead on large-scale projects (including automating thousands of servers), he blends architecture, SRE practices and GitOps to drive resilient microservices and data pipelines. His open-source contributions to operational tooling—such as improving the semi-official Logstash cookbook—reflect a practical, ops-first approach to reliability. Based in London, he continuously pursues challenging scaling problems and pragmatic patterns like circuit breakers, rate limiting and cross-region deployments to reduce operational overhead.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Academic, Software Engineering, Academic, Software Engineering at Vilnius CollegeHigh School Diploma, Basic studies, High School Diploma, Basic studies at Vilniaus Lukiškių Vidurinė MokyklaLicentiate degree, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Licentiate degree, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Vilnius Business and Technology Learning Center
English, Russian, Lithuanian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
configuration-management10
makefile10
chef-client10
logstash10
chef-solo10
devops10
upstart10
ubuntu9
automation9
automations9
gnupg6
nodejs6
yaml6
docker6
bash6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
lusis/chef-logstash
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Semi-official Logstash cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Roman's contributions primarily centered around configuring and improving the logstash cookbook, a semi-official configuration for Logstash. They addressed several bugs related to service configuration, specifically around setting user and group permissions for Logstash processes via supervisor. The user updated Upstart and Beaver configuration templates to correctly use supervisor groups and the user also moved attributes to a default configuration file. The commits demonstrate an understanding of how to configure logging infrastructure with a focus on operational aspects.
cookbooksemilogstashelasticsearchchef-resource
holms/ansible-fqdn
Sep 2014 - Jan 2017
Sets Fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
Contributions:2 releases, 35 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 4 months
domain-namedmarctlddomainpowerdns
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