Viktor Bogdanov
MTS2, Software Engineer at PayPal
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolViktor Bogdanov is a seasoned platform and SRE-focused software engineer based in San Jose with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for companies from startups to PayPal. He specializes in Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD and automation, having architected Kubernetes-based platforms, blue-green deployments, EMR+Airflow pipelines, and robust observability stacks that improved reliability and release quality. At PayPal he progressed to MTS2, and his open-source contributions to the high-profile kops project show practical expertise in AWS volume management and CLI tooling that benefit production-grade Kubernetes operations. Comfortable across Python and Go, Viktor combines deep operational experience with infrastructure-as-code craftsmanship and a background in large-system migrations and cluster lifecycle tooling. Notably, his academic foundation in nanotechnology and microelectronics gives him an unusual systems-level perspective applied to distributed software and performance-sensitive platforms.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
kops10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-infrastructure9
cnc9
infrastructure9
docker8
dockers8
jenkins6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 21 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Viktor contributed to the `kops` project by implementing features related to volume management, specifically adding functionality to identify and manage shared volumes within the AWS environment. They also added a kubeconfig flag to the `validate cluster` command and the `--all` flag to the `export cluster` command, improving the user experience and command-line utility. Furthermore, they fixed a scheduler policy configuration issue and a minor typo.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
vvbogdanov87/gnome-shell-extension-kubeconfig
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Gnome-shell extension for switching kube config context
Contributions:8 reviews, 40 commits, 42 PRs in 4 years 8 months
gnome-shell-extensionkubegjsgnomegnome-shell
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