Dima Altukhov
About Dima Altukhov
Dima Altukhov is a DevOps Engineer currently employed at Guesty in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, where he has worked since 2021. He has a strong background in cloud infrastructure and service migration, having previously worked at Zipy and Luxoft.
Work at Guesty
Dima Altukhov has been employed at Guesty as a DevOps Engineer since 2021. He operates from Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel. During his tenure, he has contributed to significant projects, including the migration of service discovery from Consul DNS to Kubernetes DNS, which improved communication efficiency between the Kong API Gateway and pods. His role involves enhancing the company's infrastructure and optimizing deployment processes.
Previous Experience in DevOps
Before joining Guesty, Dima worked as a DevOps Engineer at Zipy from 2020 to 2021 in Beersheba, Southern Israel. His earlier experience includes a brief position as a Cloud Support Engineer at Luxoft in 2020, where he worked for two months in St Petersburg, Russia. His roles have focused on cloud infrastructure and deployment automation.
Technical Skills and Projects
Dima has developed Terraform units for EKS deployment, which included essential components such as CoreDNS, Cluster AutoScaler, Prometheus, and Keda AutoScaler. He implemented a cost-saving migration of live production environments from AWS ECS and Consul to AWS EKS, achieving savings of approximately $1000 per day. Additionally, he has created and refactored around 50 Jenkins scripted pipelines in Groovy for Kubernetes job scheduling.
Education and Expertise
Dima Altukhov earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Technology Professional Education from Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University, studying from 2006 to 2011. His educational background has provided him with a solid foundation in technology, which he has applied throughout his career in various DevOps roles.
Infrastructure and Automation Contributions
Dima has led several key initiatives to enhance infrastructure and automation practices. He refactored approximately 200 Terraform units to align with specific business requirements and implemented Istio Service Mesh with an External Root CA, utilizing certificates stored in Vault. His work in transitioning AWS ElastiCache Redis to Redis Enterprise Active-Active with Geo endpoints has improved the efficiency of auth token storage.