Vladimir Smagin
DevOps Engineer at Reffection
Tomsk Oblast, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Smagin is a seasoned DevOps engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and automation pipelines. Based in Tomsk Oblast, he has repeatedly led migrations to containerized environments and managed infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible, Helm and CI/CD across DigitalOcean, Hetzner and AWS. He contributes to notable open-source projects—having added Hetzner DNS support to the widely used external-dns project—demonstrating both practical operator skills and attention to code quality. His background spans monitoring, database administration (Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse), and building operators, and he frequently mentors developers, blending deep systems experience with a pragmatic engineering mindset. Trained in information protection, he pairs long-standing operational know-how (first commercial work in 2001) with a steady focus on reliability and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Диплом специалиста по инженерной специальности, Защита информации, Диплом специалиста по инженерной специальности, Защита информации at Томский Государственный Университет Систем Управления и Радиоэлектроники
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
go10
dns10
kubernetes-pods10
external-dns10
cicd4
aws4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 21 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily contributed to the implementation of the Hetzner DNS provider within the `external-dns` project. Their work included adding support for Hetzner DNS, creating a new provider module, integrating the necessary dependencies, and implementing the core logic for interacting with the Hetzner DNS API. They also fixed a bug related to error reporting and performed module cleanup, demonstrating a focus on both feature implementation and code quality.
gcproute53dnsexternal-dnsk8s-sig-network
21h/radio-configs
Jan 2016 - Apr 2022
Конфиги для различных программ и раций с забитыми местными частотами. Актуально для г. Томска.
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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