Vasil Mikhalenya
Head Of Engineering at Gcore
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVasil Mikhalenya is a Head of Engineering with 12+ years building and scaling high-performance infrastructure and product teams across CDN, cloud and gaming industries. He combines hands-on systems expertise—from racks and OpenStack private clouds to automation with shell/Python/Ruby—with strategic leadership in adopting DevOps, SRE and product-team practices. At Gcore he led the build of a commercial CDN and DNSaaS, guiding architecture and org changes that helped the CDN reach top-tier global performance metrics. Previously he ran global production infrastructure at Wargaming, operating thousands of physical and virtual servers across dozens of datacenters and introducing configuration management at scale. Vasil is strong at growing engineering managers, creating onboardable engineering frameworks, and turning MVPs into resilient, top-three industry products. Collected from deep ops roots, his practical focus on reliability, built-in quality and on-call automation distinguishes his approach to modern platform engineering.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics Informatics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics Informatics at Belarusian State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (74)
gcore10
letsencrypt9
golang9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
docker9
devops9
cicd9
bitbucket9
vue9
go9
gitlab9
load-balancer9
puppet8
code-review8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bazilek/geodns
Feb 2016 - Dec 2019
DNS server with per-client targeted responses
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
dns-serverdns
bazilek/puppet-desired_groups
Nov 2013 - Oct 2019
Puppet type for managing unix user's group membership in fuzzy way
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years
puppetunix
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