Zhivotnev Vladislav
Day of birth: 22 november 1990
Phone number: +357-95-626060
e-mail: root@vlad.pro
System administrator/SRE.
Education:
Specialist, Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, (ended on 2013y., topic of graduate work is «Fault-tolerance web-service design»).
Expirience/skills:
- Great experience with HTTP(S)-based projects, including high-load services
- In recent years was focused on bare-metal infrastructure and related problems
- Ability to plan, run, and manage large scheduled maintenance operations
- Experienced with environments requiring 24/7/365 uptime and high-availability, familiar with five-nine and other concepts
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- CMS: SaltStack, Ansible, CFEngine
- Deep knowledge of Debian packaging and related infrastructure
- Able to set up CI from scratch using GitLab, Drone, and similar products, good understanding of CI concepts (but not so deep in CD part)
- Bash and pure-sh scripting
- Can (and love) to write documentation
- Expirience in load testing and hardware benchmarking
- L3+ networking knowledges
- Worked with various container engines, worked a lot with KVM and lxc
- Can write very basic python-code (however with LLMs i can run small service prototype)
- Took part in public lections (as a part of Yandex-education programms and in independent projects)
- Preferring Ubuntu/Debian linux-distros (and most of my practice based on them)
- Trying to keep attention on all core OSS projects to understand how they can help me, even if i have no practice with them right now
Work log:
[ 09.2021 — 12.2025 ] — Pinely (ex. Aim-tech), SRE (DC infra)
- Main SRE role in ~15x bare-metal amount scale
- Main SRE role in 2 DC physical migrations
- SRE role in building basic infrastructure from scratch, infrastructure support
- SRE role in CMS implementation (SaltStack), ansible support as legacy part
- SRE/SA routine with supporting devs and researches with Linux problems and questions
- SRE role in supporting compute and storage clusters
- Task management (half-year planning, tracker and so on)
[ 03.2016 — 09.2021 ] — Yandex, system administrator (Hardware as a service)
- Ops and DevOps for bare-metal services (like OS setup service, firmware service and so on)
- SRE/SA support for HaaS dev team
[ 11.2013 — 02.2016 ] — Yandex, system administrator (Search infrastructure)
- Developing and running up few services as infrastructure for tens thousands of servers
- Building packages for configuring Ubuntu on this servers
- Took part in Yandex.Search migration from FreeBSD to Linux
- Replying on SRE/Devops/sysadmins questions, consulting them about internal infrastructure (not only search-infra) and about system-related questions
[ 09.2011 — 10.2013 ] — Yandex, system administrator (Personal/UGC services)
- ~200 small and medium-sized services under my responsibility
- Maintained infrastructure for this services
- Reviewed architecture and helped to review part of code from developers
- Worked a lot on job automation (as my, as for other people)
- Helped PMs to make tech-decisions about services
- Helped to developers with their troubles and questions
- Started to make elastic clasters, where we can start up a lot of new servers in short time
- 35-40k RPS to all my services
[ 11.2008 — 08.2011 ] — best-hosting.ru (hosting company), junior system administrator
- Supported hosting clients (russian and english)
- Perfomed part of sysadmins work
- troubleshooting clients problems and helped to prevent such problems for all other clients
- AMP+nginx (freebsd, debian)
- took part on building «elastic cluster for shared-hosting»