Aleksey Petrov
About Aleksey Petrov
Aleksey Petrov is a DevOps Engineer at Mail.Ru Group in Moscow, Russia, with over seven years of experience in the field. He has a strong educational background in project management and engineering, along with extensive expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and application deployment.
Work at Mail.ru Group
Aleksey Petrov has been employed at Mail.Ru Group as a DevOps engineer since 2017. In this role, he focuses on cloud infrastructure management and application deployment. His expertise includes utilizing tools such as Docker and Kubernetes for managing applications, as well as scripting and automation using Python and Ansible. He is based in Moscow, Russia, and has contributed to various projects within the organization over the past seven years.
Education and Expertise
Aleksey Petrov holds multiple degrees and certifications in relevant fields. He studied at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Электротехнический Университет «ЛЭТИ», where he earned a degree in Радиоэлектронные средства from 1995 to 2001. He furthered his education at СПб Политехнический Университет, achieving a qualification in Управление инновациями в научно-техническом и малом бизнесе in 2005. Additionally, he studied at Институт Проектного Менеджмента, obtaining a certification in Управление проектами по стандарту ANSI PMI PMBOOK in 2007. He also became a Certified Kubernetes Administrator through The Linux Foundation in 2020.
Previous Work Experience
Before joining Mail.Ru Group, Aleksey Petrov held several positions that contributed to his expertise in IT and DevOps. He worked at Baltika Breweries as a Senior expert in IT electronic documents workflow from 2000 to 2008. He then served as a Lead Automation Engineer at Fotostrana.ru from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, he was a Senior IT System Administrator at TIMEWEB from 2009 to 2011. These roles provided him with a solid foundation in system administration, automation, and project management.
Technical Skills and Tools
Aleksey Petrov possesses a diverse skill set in various technologies and tools relevant to DevOps practices. He has experience with cloud infrastructure management using OpenStack and is proficient in managing databases with MySQL and ClickHouse. His technical capabilities include using monitoring tools like Zabbix and Grafana for system performance tracking, as well as Jenkins and GitLab for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes. He is also familiar with Nginx for web server management and has experience configuring Linux-based systems, particularly CentOS.