Vadim Ponomarev
Cloud Developer DevOps SRE (remote) at Cloudification
Biar, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolVadim Ponomarev is a Cloud Developer, DevOps and SRE specialist with 11 years’ experience building and operating high-load, cloud-native systems, particularly around OpenStack and Kubernetes. He combines hands-on Python and Golang development with architecture and automation expertise—designing orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring, billing and DDoS mitigation systems for large customers like SAP Cloud and German EDGE Cloud. Deep networking knowledge (Neutron, Octavia, BGP-VPN, SDN, bare-metal integration) complements his operator background from running Debian-based infrastructure and hybrid clouds. He has led distributed teams, improved RBAC and testing for OpenStack upgrades, and contributed backend fixes to the upstream Octavia LBaaS project. Pragmatic about trade-offs, Vadim frequently translates business needs into robust, cost-aware designs and can bootstrap Kubernetes/OpenStack environments from scratch. Remote-first and open-source-minded, he maintains an active GitHub showcasing cloud-focused tooling and integrations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
-, Information technology and mathematics, -, Information technology and mathematics at Gymnasium number 1
English
Github Skills (11)
service-provider10
openstack10
service-design10
python10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
databases6
database-api6
database6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/octavia
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) for OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
Contributions summary:Vadim primarily contributed to the OpenStack Octavia project, focusing on backend logic and bug fixes. Their work included modifying the keystone token provider for devstack, adding support for raw image formats, and fixing a logging error. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to Barbican's ACLs and removed unused methods from the controllers. They also fixed a check redirect pool function.
boshcloud-foundryopenshiftload-balancingcloudfoundry
velp/netns-exporter
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Prometheus exporter for network namespaces
Contributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 5 months
exporterprometheus-exporternamespacesprometheus
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