Vladimir Smirnov
Sr. Director Cloud And Dev Operations
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Smirnov is a senior cloud and DevOps leader with over two decades of hands-on experience building and scaling global infrastructure, SRE, and security teams for enterprise SaaS and networking platforms. Currently leading CloudOps and DevOps for the Ruckus One platform, he has a track record of driving multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) strategies, automating self-service infrastructure, and delivering immediate cost savings of 25–35% through careful optimization. At VMware he built a 40+ global team, launched a 20-POP SASE platform, and led compliance efforts (PCI, SOC2, ISO) while managing infrastructure budgets exceeding $50M. Vladimir combines deep technical execution—Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, observability stacks and EKS/EC2 optimization—with a strong focus on team growth, cross-functional alignment, and business outcomes. He is known for turning fragmented operations into cohesive, enterprise-ready platforms and for fostering a culture of trust that accelerates product delivery. Based in San Francisco, he blends legacy datacenter expertise with modern cloud-native practices to solve large-scale reliability and security challenges.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
High School High School, High School High School at George Washington High SchoolAssociate's degree Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Associate's degree Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at City College of San Francisco
English, Russian
Github Skills (7)
nodes3
percona-xtradb-cluster2
monitoring1
proxy1
bsd1
haproxy1
percona1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
vovans82/vchef
Nov 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 1 year
vovans82/training
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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