Roman Ovchinnikov
VP System Engineering Automation
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Ovchinnikov is a seasoned infrastructure and automation leader with 17 years of hands-on Sysadmin/DevOps experience and seven years managing distributed teams up to 15 across three countries. As VP of System Engineering Automation at Lazada he led large-scale projects spanning thousands of servers, migrated load balancing to software-defined solutions, and improved on-site incident coverage from 8 to 17 hours. He has driven PCI DSS compliance from zero, introduced early ChatOps automation in 2008, and shortened deployment and staging times through aggressive tooling upgrades like Puppet and Jenkins. Known for turning skilled individuals into a cohesive, priority-driven team, he pairs deep technical fluency (systems handling thousands of requests/sec) with pragmatic leadership, cross-department negotiation, and a knack for simplifying complex infrastructure roadmaps.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information systems in Economics, Master's degree, Information systems in Economics at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Github Skills (200)
redis-client10
collectd10
solaris10
snmp10
daemon10
prometheus-exporter10
transcript10
android-app10
ssl10
encryption10
subtitle10
kotlin10
youtube-api10
android-application10
openid10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CoolCold/environ
Feb 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 tag in 9 years 3 months
CoolCold/openvz-tools
Jul 2012 - Feb 2018
Contributions:58 commits, 17 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 8 months
openvz
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