Aleksei Kasatkin
About Aleksei Kasatkin
Aleksei Kasatkin is a Senior Software Engineer at Mirantis, where he has worked since 2013. He specializes in troubleshooting and bug-fixing for Fuel, OpenStack, and containerized environments, and has expertise in performance, scaling, and high availability issues in software systems.
Work at Mirantis
Aleksei Kasatkin has been employed at Mirantis as a Senior Software Engineer since 2013. Over his 11 years with the company, he has focused on troubleshooting and bug-fixing within the Fuel and OpenStack environments, as well as containerized systems. His role involves addressing performance, scaling, and high availability issues in software applications. He actively participates in project management using task tracking tools such as JIRA, Trello, Launchpad, and GitHub.
Education and Expertise
Aleksei Kasatkin earned his Engineer's degree in Instrument Engineering from Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation, where he studied from 1997 to 2003. His educational background supports his expertise in software engineering, particularly in troubleshooting and performance optimization. He is skilled in utilizing various deployment tools, including Mirantis Fuel, Devstack, Kargo, Ansible, and Helm.
Background
Aleksei Kasatkin has a strong foundation in software engineering, with a focus on open source development. He engages with platforms such as Git, Gerrit, GitHub, Jenkins, and Travis, contributing to various projects. His work includes developing networking solutions for OpenStack and Kubernetes, as well as serving as a core reviewer for several Fuel repositories, where he contributes to the review of feature designs.
Technical Skills
Aleksei Kasatkin possesses a range of technical skills relevant to software engineering. He specializes in troubleshooting and bug-fixing for Fuel and OpenStack, with a strong emphasis on performance, scaling, and high availability challenges. He works with relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, enhancing his ability to manage and optimize data-driven applications.