Timofej Iljinych
Principal Engineering Manager, Identity & Network Access at Microsoft
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolTimofej Iljinych is a Principal Engineering Manager specializing in identity and network access, bringing 11+ years of hands-on and leadership experience building cloud-native systems across telco, media, gaming, and web communications. Currently at Microsoft after leading platform engineering at Absa Group, he blends deep engineering discipline with proven delivery in both nimble agile teams and large distributed organizations. He has practical DevOps and backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to high-profile open source projects like Rancher and the Kubernetes global balancer k8gb—where he improved deployment robustness, proxy handling, and metrics plumbing. Known for lifting reliability and observability, he pairs a systems-thinking approach with experience in automation and test engineering dating back to early roles at Skype and Nortel. Trained in computing technologies for physical research, he brings a methodical, measurement-driven mindset to scaling secure, production-grade platforms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information Systems in Physics, Computing Technologies in Physical Research, MS Information Systems in Physics, Computing Technologies in Physical Research at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)
English, Czech, Russian
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Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
docker10
rancher10
go10
kube-controller-manager10
environment-variables10
cloud-native10
prometheus10
dockers10
cicd10
metric10
kubernetes-pods10
back-end-development9
orchestration9
orchestra9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
k8gb-io/k8gb
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 495 reviews, 112 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Timofej primarily focused on improving the project's build, test, and deployment processes. They upgraded the operator-sdk version, removed deprecated features, and refactored metrics initialization. The commits indicate a strong emphasis on enhancing the reliability and monitoring capabilities of the system. The changes include adding status-related metrics and refactoring metrics initialization.
kubernetes-controllergolangkubernetes-global-balancerdns-lbgslb
rancher/rancher
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 1 PR in 16 days
Contributions summary:Timofej contributed to the configuration and propagation of proxy settings within the Rancher platform. They modified code related to the fleet/gitjob subchart to incorporate environment variables for HTTP and HTTPS proxies. The user's work involved setting up and amending the codebase to ensure correct proxy configuration for networking operations, particularly when using the Rancher platform. The commits indicate an understanding of deployment configuration using environment variables and the Go programming language.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
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