Vladimir Simakhin
PC-24 Pilot Captain at Contract Pilot
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Simakhin is a dual-career professional combining over a decade in DevOps with a high-performance piloting career, holding an EASA CPL (fATPL) and 4000+ flight hours including 3200+ multi-engine jet hours and 2100+ PIC. As a Principal/Senior DevOps engineer he has deep AWS, Python and Go expertise and a proven track record of building infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation platforms. In aviation he’s served as PC-24 and C525 Captain, line training captain and flight instructor across Europe, North Africa and Asia, with experience in airlines, private charter, cargo and air ambulance operations. Based in Prague, he blends operational safety mindset with production-grade engineering discipline, moving reliably between cockpit decision-making and scalable infrastructure delivery. An engineer by training from Bauman MSTU, he pairs low-level systems knowledge with hands-on cloud and automation practice—an unusual combination that fosters pragmatic, safety-first solutions in both domains.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Information Systems and Telecommunications, Engineer's degree, Information Systems and Telecommunications at Moscow State Technical University n.a. Bauman
English, Russian, Czech
Github Skills (16)
json-database10
latitude-longitude10
pdf10
logbook10
troposphere10
aws-cloudformation10
timezone10
aws10
elevation10
letter10
python10
identifier10
database9
golang9
json9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vsimakhin/Airports
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
A JSON database of 28k+ airports with ICAO/IATA codes, names, cities, two-letter country identifiers, elevation, latitude & longitude, and a timezone identifier
Contributions:32 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 8 months
latitudeiata-codesletteridentifierlatitude-and-longitude
vsimakhin/go-nighttime
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
Go package for flight night time calculation
Contributions:8 releases, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 2 months
flightgolanggo-packagenightlogbook
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