Siarhei Lipchyk
Senior Software Engineer at Roger
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSiarhei Lipchyk is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with over 18 years of hands-on experience and six years focused on senior roles across backend, infrastructure and site reliability. He has led platform and migration efforts—splitting monoliths into microservices, implementing zero-downtime payment rewrites, and building deployment CLIs and IaC with Terraform and SaltStack. At Nhost he contributed to the open-source Firebase-alternative by hardening Docker entrypoints and making deployments more customizable, reflecting a practical focus on flexible, production-ready infrastructure. His background spans Ruby on Rails architecture, SRE practices, and DevOps automation across startups and scaleups like heycar, Blacklane and Roger. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep systems knowledge with a habit of documenting and teaching solutions through workshops and in-house tooling.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Telecommunications technician's degree Computer Software Engineering in Telecommunications, Telecommunications technician's degree Computer Software Engineering in Telecommunications at Higher State College of CommunicationBachelor of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (25)
docker10
backend-as-a-service10
scripting10
dockers10
script10
sh10
shell10
devops10
automation9
serverless9
automations9
yaml8
hasura8
postgresql7
postgrest7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nhost/nhost
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
The Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 4 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Siarhei's contributions center on configuring and maintaining the project's infrastructure, particularly within a Docker environment. They modified the `docker-entrypoint.sh` script to manage environment variables, ports, and URLs used by the application, including those related to the Hasura console and various backend services. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to allow for customization and overriding of certain values, such as the Hasura admin secret, indicating a focus on flexible deployments and configurations. The user also addressed and fixed default values for environment variables and placeholders.
serverlessfirebase-alternativevuestoragebackend-as-a-service
elephant3/functions-test
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 201 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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