Vincent Ambo
Founder at TVL / ООО ТВЛ
Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
Summary
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RockstarVincent Ambo is a founder and seasoned infrastructure engineer with 16 years of experience building cloud-native systems, SRE practices, and toolchains around Nix, monorepos, Kubernetes and Rust. He runs TVL, a consultancy focused on reproducible builds and scalable infrastructure, and has held engineering roles at DeepMind, Google and Spotify where he drove reliability and cloud platform work. An active open-source contributor, Vincent has made impactful contributions to notable projects like kops (AWS/S3 integrations) and Nixery-style container tooling, reflecting a pragmatic focus on production-grade automation. He blends deep systems-level fluency (Lisp, Haskell roots) with modern DevOps practices and a penchant for reproducibility that shows up across his tooling and consulting. Based in Kazan, he quietly bridges research-grade reliability thinking with hands-on delivery for companies and open-source ecosystems.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, Norwegian, German, Swedish
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Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
nix10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
gcp10
terraformer10
go10
aws10
amazon-s310
kubernetes-pods10
aws-s310
container-registry10
s3-bucket10
caching9
cnc9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
tazjin/nixery
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
Container registry which transparently builds images using the Nix package manager. Canonical repository is https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/tools/nixery
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 222 commits, 145 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the backend logic and infrastructure of the container registry. Their work involved importing and refactoring the Nixery codebase into a Git repository, introducing Nix-based build configurations, and implementing a new layer build strategy. They also focused on enhancing the registry by adding configuration options, implementing a caching system, and ensuring proper error handling and logging within the build process.
containersbuildsnixospackage-managerdocker
kubernetes/kops
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 47 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to infrastructure and cloud-related aspects of the kops project, specifically focusing on AWS and S3 integration. Their work included implementing features to handle cross-account S3 bucket access, improving S3 bucket location retrieval, and allowing object ACL overrides. Additionally, they refactored and optimized the existing S3-related code, including applying Terraform formatting. These changes indicate a focus on cloud infrastructure management within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
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