Vsevolod Poliakov
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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RockstarVsevolod Poliakov (Seva) is a seasoned DevOps and Site Reliability engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating production infrastructure for companies like Grammarly, Amazon, Datarobot, Neuromation and Grammarly-adjacent open-source projects. Currently SRE at Let's Enhance and founder of a 2.3k-member local DevOps community, he blends hands-on engineering, contractor leadership, and public speaking to solve reliability and deployment challenges. His contributions to projects such as grammarly/rocker demonstrate deep practical expertise in container build systems and CI/CD edge cases—fixing Docker push EOFs and improving artifact workflows. Comfortable leading teams or consulting, he has repeatedly moved between startup and enterprise environments, shipping pragmatic improvements under pressure. Based in Kyiv, he pairs a pragmatic, code-first approach with community-building and knowledge-sharing as core parts of his professional identity.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (15)
docker10
go10
dockers10
cicd10
ansible10
build-automation9
testing9
json6
nginx6
chef-solo6
linux6
chef-infra6
logging6
knife6
git4
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
grammarly/rocker
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Rocker breaks the limits of Dockerfile.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Vsevolod focused on improving the artifact generation process within the Rocker project, enhancing the ability to create artifacts without pushing images to the registry. They refactored the artifact saving process, adding a "Pushed" property and refactoring the related code. The user also addressed a critical error in the Docker push mechanism, fixing an EOF error and implementing related tests and addressing the context directory handling.
limitsdockerfiledockerrocker
ctrlok/sevarocks
Jul 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 15 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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