Vladislav Samoylik
Senior SRE / Platform Infrastructure Engineer
I build predictable production infrastructure: observability, automation, Go tooling.
Rostov-on-Don, Russia · Open to: remote, hybrid, contract work
+7 (988) 899-96-07 · haxver@gmail.com · Telegram @vladsamoylik · vsamoylik.ru · Русский
Profile
Infrastructure engineer with over twenty years of experience operating, designing, and automating IT systems.
I focus on SRE, Platform Engineering, and running high-load production platforms: Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, observability, infrastructure automation, VoIP, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
I don’t just keep existing infrastructure running — I improve it: bring order, make systems clearer, more predictable, and reproducible. I design monitoring, build internal automation tools, develop infrastructure services in Go and Bash, investigate incidents, and fix architectural constraints rather than symptoms.
In my spare time I maintain open-source Go projects — VirtForge, Archivist, and others. I write about infrastructure and systems software on my blog (Russian).
I’m most interested in complex infrastructure problems that require root-cause analysis and a systematic approach instead of quick fixes.
Projects
VirtForge
Declarative KVM/libvirt orchestrator — YAML, HTTP API, cloud-init
A lightweight alternative to heavy platforms: VMs, networks, and storage described in Git, deployed via CLI, agent on the host, Prometheus metrics, TLS/mTLS.
Go · libvirt · YAML · Prometheus
Archivist
Backup control plane — orchestrates pg_dump, s5cmd, age
Declarative YAML jobs, manifest and checksum per artifact, pull-model agents, audit trail. Not a monolithic backup suite — a thin orchestrator over proven CLI tools.
Go · PostgreSQL · S3 · YAML
Courier
Adaptive proxy router that prefers direct connections
Local SOCKS5/HTTP CONNECT: direct or upstream per destination. Policy routing, GeoIP, decision cache, courier explainfor debugging.
Go · SQLite · GeoIP
FlacSplit
CLI for splitting lossless audio by CUE sheet
Split, tagging, cover art from MusicBrainz/Last.fm, FLAC and ALAC output. Pure Go where it makes sense.
Go · ffmpeg
Experience
Rambler&Co — SRE / Infrastructure Engineer
September 2025 — June 2026
Operations and evolution of production infrastructure for the company’s largest web products: virtual infrastructure, SaltStack-based IaC, monitoring, observability, incident diagnostics.
- Contributed to monitoring for 2000+ hosts
- Improved alerting quality and reduced false positives
- Investigated production incidents and fixed root causes
- Helped the development team pay down frontend infrastructure technical debt
Linux, SaltStack, nginx, Redis, MongoDB, HAProxy, Elastic/OpenSearch
Sebbia — DevOps Engineer
April 2025 — July 2025
Enterprise platform on OKD/OpenShift and highly available infrastructure services.
- Deployed a production-ready Vault cluster on Raft with automated init/unseal
- Adapted Helm projects for OpenShift security constraints
- Built Kustomize-based deployment workflows and automated service configuration
Vault, CloudNativePG, Zitadel, OpenShift, Helm, Kustomize
Wisteria BG EOD — SRE / VoIP Infrastructure Engineer
May 2020 — February 2025
Cloud infrastructure for NG911 platforms on AWS: 3000+ instances, distributed VoIP clusters, high-availability systems. Combined VoIP Engineer, System Engineer, Monitoring Engineer, and DevOps Engineer roles.
- Designed a VoIP monitoring platform on Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki
- Built automatic server discovery and monitoring via AWS API
- Developed 100+ production alerting rules
- Wrote a CloudFormation and Fedora CoreOS config generator in Go
- Built Fedora CoreOS cluster management tools
- Extended aws-dc-exporter and developed rmq-consumers-exporter for RabbitMQ
- Automated backups of PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchDB, and PCAP to S3
- Built RPM build infrastructure for multiple Linux distributions
- Created a HomeLab for testing production solutions
AWS, Kubernetes, Fedora CoreOS, CloudFormation, VoIP, CI/CD
Earlier experience
2004 — 2018 · system administration
Corporate infrastructure from scratch: virtualization, Linux and Windows Server, Active Directory, networking, backups, monitoring, web and mail servers, Bitrix24, 1C, CAD, access control, and CCTV.
JOIN · Rostov Inter-Industry Information and Technology Center · Lenta · Rostov Regional Veterinary Station · Sev-Kav Test 2004 · Don State Technical University
Skills
Infrastructure & Cloud — Linux (RHEL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Fedora CoreOS, Ubuntu), AWS (EC2, VPC, Route53, Direct Connect, S3), KVM, networking, high availability, virtualization
Platform Engineering — Kubernetes, OKD/OpenShift, k3s, Docker, Podman, Helm, Kustomize, CloudNativePG, HashiCorp Vault
Observability — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, Elastic/OpenSearch, Blackbox Exporter, incident response, root cause analysis, monitoring architecture
Automation — SaltStack, CloudFormation, cloud-init, Ignition, Go, Bash
Data & Services — PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, HAProxy, Nginx, CouchDB
VoIP — Kamailio, FreeSWITCH, Kazoo, SIP/RTP, VoIP troubleshooting
Education
Don State Technical University — engineer, metal forming machines and technology, 2007
Languages
Russian — native · English — technical (documentation, written communication)