Vladimir Sokolenko

 BIO

I've been in the IT industry since 2006: GNU/Linux, Hybrid Cloud Environments, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), containers and automation. I love Linux, concepts of Open Source, FOSS and vendor-agnostic solutions. Long-term open source and open standards advocate. Cloud-Native, Declarative resource management and GitOps advocate.

Experienced in the development, support, and debugging of IT projects at various levels of complexity, with roles as an SRE, DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineer, and Linux Engineer, using Scrum and Kanban Agile methodologies.

In 2012, I studied at Dresden Technical University as a postgraduate student (PhD student). I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science.

MAIN TECH STACK

- GNU/Linux: Red Hat (RHEL) • SUSE/SLES • Debian • Fedora • Alpine

- Containers and orchestration: Kubernetes (K8S) • Docker • Podman • OpenShift (OCP) • ROSA • EKS • AKS • Isolevant • Calico • Docker Compose • Talos Linux • k3s

- Scripting: BASH • Python

- IaC & Automation:  Ansible • Terraform • Ansible Navigator • Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)

- Public Clouds: AWS • GCP • Azure • OpenStack • IBM Cloud

- CI/CD: Jenkins, CloudBees • GitHub Actions • GitLab CI • ArgoCD • Tekton • Konflux

- Virtualization: KVM • QEMU • Proxmox • Hyper-V • OpenShift Virtualization (Kubevirt)

- Monitoring and Analytics tools: Prometheus • Nagios • Grafana • Splunk • SumoLogic • ELK (ElasticSearch, LogStash, and Kibana) • SignalFx • PagerDuty • FluentD

- Networking • GIT • GitHub • GitLab • Codeberg • nginx • SQL

- BI Services: Tableau Server • Alteryx Server • Kafka • Spark • Zookeeper • Collibra DQ/EDGE Server • Airflow

FEATURED PROJECTS

 FEATURED ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

CERTIFICATIONS

Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator [December 2025]

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers [April 2025]

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) [March 2025]

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) [September 2023]

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002) [February 2023]

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert [January 2023]

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate [March 2022]

Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate [April 2022]

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect [December 2022]

Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer [December 2022]

CompTIA Network+ [May 2022]

Certified Linux Administrator (LPIC-1) [February 2022]

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner [November 2022]

Google Cloud Certified - Cloud Digital Leader [July 2022]

Sumo Logic Certified: Administration [July 2022]

Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals [January 2022]

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals [December 2021]

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals [December 2021]

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Architect Associate [December 2021]

and others, full list here

DevOps • Platform Engineering • Cloud Engineering • Automation Engineering • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) • Cloud Architecture • Linux Engineering • MLOps

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