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Yaroslav Ivchenkov

Senior Software Engineer — Kubernetes Platform Engineering
Remote · UTC+3

I help engineering teams turn fragile Kubernetes clusters into infrastructure that upgrades, scales, and heals itself — whatever hardware it has to run on.

how I help

I close the gap between a cluster's desired state and what's actually running — building the operators, admission controls, and multi-cluster tooling that let a platform look after itself.

In practice: CRD-based operators that encode real operational judgment. Multi-cluster orchestration that behaves the same whether the target is a hyperscaler region or a rack in a data center. Helm charts and CLIs a team can actually run, day to day, long after rollout.

what I bring

Operator

CRD reconciliation

Software that watches a system and fixes drift on its own, so nobody gets paged for it.
Multi-cluster

Cluster API (CAPI)

One provisioning story across vSphere, OpenStack, AWS, bare-metal/SSH, and other platforms.
Delivery

Helm & CLI tooling

Packaging a cluster ships confidently — versioned, upgradeable, no manual pre-flight required.
Security

Admission control

Automated policy checks that stop unsafe changes before they reach production.
Lifecycle

Zero-drama upgrades

Version-gated rollouts and day-two automation, so upgrading a cluster stops being an event.
Workflow

AI-augmented delivery

I build my own agent tooling around the systems I own — it keeps several workstreams review-ready at once.

verified

CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Linux Foundation
AWS CCP — AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

full history

This is the short version. Current role and full background live on LinkedIn.