Welcome

Hi! My name is Alexander Sivtsov. I am a senior infrastructure engineer from Russia. I live in Moscow now. 9 years of experience in IT. I love GNU/Linux, programming, music, traveling, and setting up high-load projects.

Work experience:

1. Program Region: 2016 - 2018 (USA/RUS);
2. DocDoc: 2018 - 2020 (RUS);
3. SberMarket (Kuper): 2020 - 2024 (RUS);
4. CFDX 02.2024 - 10.2024 (UK);
5. Lamoda 2024 - time.Now() (RUS).

And there are many other projects that don't make sense to write about.

Education

1. RSREU: 2012 - 2016 (bachelor's degree)
2. RSREU: 2016 - 2018 (magist's degree)
3. MTI: 2018 (advanced training)

My technology stack

Below are the technologies that I work with every day.

Please note

My favorite technologies are marked with emoji -

Programming languages

1. Golang
2. Python
3. Bash/sh

Databases

1. Kafka
2. PostgreSQL
3. Redis / redis sentinel
4. MySQL

Clouds

1. Yandex Cloud
2. Cloud.ru
3. AWS
4. GCP

VPN

1. WireGuard
2. Strongswan

Version control

1. Bitbucket
2. Gitlab
3. Github

Observability

1. Kibana
2. Elastic Search
3. Vector
4. Fluentbit
5. VictoriaMetrics

Orchestration systems

1. Nomad HashiCorp
2. Kubernetes

Tools

1. Vault HashiCorp
2. Consul HashiCorp
3. Harbor
4. Nexus
5. Flux
6. Velero
7. Kyverno
8. Helm
9. Kaniko

PAM

1. Teleport

Infrastructure as code (IaC)

1. Terraform / terragrunt
2. Ansible
3. Packer

My favorite books

A short list of my favorite books

Please note

I recommend you to read -

Golang

1. The Go Programming Language ¹
2. Cloud Native Go ²

Python

1. Learning Python ³
2. Python One-Liners ⁴

IaC

1. Terraform: Up and Running ⁵
2. Infrastructure as Code ⁶

OS

1. Modern Operating Systems ⁷
2. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook ⁸

Architecture

1. Designing Data-Intensive Applications ⁹
2. Site Reliability Engineering ¹⁰

Apps

1. Kubernetes Patterns ¹¹
2. Kubernetes in Action ¹²
3. Kafka: The Definitive Guide ¹³

CV

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Information for employers

Warning

I do not work with companies from the fields listed below. Let's save our time.

1. Online casino
2. Betting companies
3. Email marketing

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1. Alan A. A. Donovan · Brian W. Kernigha ↩

2. Matthew A. Titmus ↩

3. Mark Lutz ↩

4. Christian Mayer ↩

5. Yevgeniy Brikman ↩

6. Kief Morris ↩

7. Andrew Tanenbaum ↩

8. Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder ↩

9. Martin Kleppmann, Chris Riccomini ↩

10. Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer ↩

11. Bilgin Ibryam, Roland Huss ↩

12. Marko Luksa ↩

13. Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, Todd Palino ↩