Sergey Zhilkin
Freelance DevOps at Enterpreneur
Syzran, Samara Oblast, Russia
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Top SchoolSergey Zhilkin is a freelance DevOps engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure for development and QA across enterprise and startup environments. He has held roles from Senior Systems Engineer at EPAM to System Owner for a SPLUNK solution at SAP, and specializes in Linux, Docker, monitoring, and automation. A long-time Plan 9 enthusiast, Sergey brings a systems-minded, minimalist approach to tooling and architecture that surfaces in his public repos and Docker hub contributions. His background includes managing large-scale Cisco networks and HP Operations Manager deployments, giving him strong operational discipline and visibility engineering skills. Based in Syzran, Russia, he combines practical service ownership with freelance agility, often tackling observability and containerization challenges end-to-end. Colleagues value his deep troubleshooting instincts and steady delivery on complex, production-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
техник-электромеханик, Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician, техник-электромеханик, Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician at Губернский колледжBasic school, Basic school at Shool N8 Syzran.
Русский, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
beans9
consumption9
java-agent9
jmx9
jmx-exporter8
prometheus-exporter8
java8
monitoring7
macos6
prometheus6
bash6
kernel4
operating-system3
linux3
kubernetes2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
szhilkin/szhilkin.github.io
Jul 2017 - Jan 2024
Personal page
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
szhilkin/sre-interview-prep-guide
Jun 2021 - Feb 2025
Site Reliability Engineer Interview Preparation Guide
Contributions:10 pushes in 3 years 8 months
preparationsite-reliability-engineeringreliabilitysite-reliabilitysite-reliability-engineer
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