I am an experienced Engineering Manager specializing in Site Reliability Engineering. I live in the Netherlands and work at Booking.com, and I still enjoy it 😉.
I used to support DevOps-related conferences in Russia as a Program Committee member. These included Highload++ in Moscow, DevOops in St. Petersburg, RIT++ festival, and DevOpsConf. I reviewed talks before they were publicly presented.
For many years, I have focused on building high-performing SRE teams. I have extensive experience nurturing talent, enabling growth, and helping teams achieve their goals. I care deeply about people and believe in respectful, direct feedback.
Besides leadership experience, I have deep knowledge of Linux internals for running services with 24/7/365 availability requirements. My core technical skills include Linux, Python and shell automation, configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible), Docker, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL.
I actively leverage modern AI technologies whenever they bring clear value to my work: faster analysis, better automation, and more effective engineering workflows.
Outside of work, I also enjoy building with AI. One of my side projects is a Telegram bot: tg-word-reminder. It helps users learn foreign-language vocabulary through repetitive practice using a Spaced Repetitive Review technique.
I love to run for health and happiness.
At Booking.com, I lead a team of 10 engineers responsible for core reliability and security capabilities: secret management, configuration management, and certificate management. Our platforms power highly loaded, business-critical services, with a focus on resilience, safety, and operational simplicity at scale.
Before Booking.com, I spent 10 years at Ecwid and grew from System Administrator to Head of IT Operations. I helped build a strong Ops organization and introduced key engineering practices, including monitoring, log management, configuration management, and one-button upgrade automation.
