Igor Raits
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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RockstarIgor Raits is a pragmatic infrastructure and platform engineer with 13 years of experience building cost-efficient Big Data, ML, and cloud systems for startups and enterprises. He has architected private and public cloud platforms that scale to petabytes and millions of users, and his optimizations at GoodData delivered hundreds of thousands in monthly savings through hardware choices, performance tuning, and vendor negotiation. A hands-on leader, he has driven SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance efforts while operating as product/component owner, architect, and manager across multi-team deliveries. Igor is also an active open-source contributor to foundational Linux packaging and build projects (RPM, libsolv, DNF, Meson, util-linux), showing deep low-level and packaging expertise that informs his production-grade automation. He combines systems-level C/Python work with Terraform, Kubernetes/OpenStack, and CI/CD design to turn complex operational challenges into repeatable, auditable processes. Based in Prague, he’s known for aligning technical strategy with business outcomes and mentoring teams to ship resilient, cost-conscious platforms.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Russian, English, Czech
Github Skills (42)
dependency-management10
zsh-completion10
character-encoding10
package-management10
python10
back-end-development10
api-design10
format-table10
packaging10
dnf10
bash10
bash-completion10
build-system10
c1110
c1710
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
mesonbuild/meson
Mar 2015 - Aug 2020
The Meson Build System
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 177 commits, 122 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Igor primarily contributed to the Meson Build System by developing and enhancing the RPM module. They added support for features such as devel subpackages, changelogs, and the handling of includedirs and man pages within the RPM spec file generation. The user also implemented automation improvements by implementing macros and streamlining the build process, along with fixing several code related issues and edge cases.
build-system
rpm-software-management/rpm
Jun 2016 - Jun 2020
The RPM package manager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 104 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Igor primarily contributed to the RPM package manager's codebase. Their work involved fixing bugs related to the Python code, such as moving `__future__` imports and showing warnings for missing versions. They also improved dependency generation, added features like rich dependencies support, and addressed memory leaks. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the build process, and added tests for macro expansion.
package-managerbuild-toolpackages
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