Hi, I am Valeriy Khashkovskiy currently based in Europe.

Systems and Software Engineer (since 1997) with broad experience delivering and operating complex systems. I support teams through audits, coordination, and continuous improvement—bringing DevOps and systems engineering practices to infrastructure, SDLC, and process excellence. I also contribute beyond project work through technical interviewing, internal initiatives, and open source. Ph.D. in Software Engineering; comfortable working across diverse tools, platforms, and technically rigorous environments.

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Valeriy Khashkovskiy

DevOps / FinOps / SRE
Ph.D. in Software engineering

As a Systems Engineer and Software engineer since 1997, I'm happy to work on different projects and bring my expertise and experience to the clients. I'm comfortable using variety tools and platforms. Being an Ph.D. in Software engineering and Associated professor at Southern Federal University (since 2005) and having experience in Science, Research and Development domain (since 2002) with total papers number of 108 (RSI) and more than 18 years of experience I am comfortable with projects based on tech and science models.

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EXPERTISE AREA

Continuous Integration & Delivery 90%
Programming & Scripting 70%
Software development Lifecycle 80%
DevOps (SRE, FinOps, CI/CD) 80%
Containers & Virtualization 80%
Platform engineering (IaaC, On-premises) 80%

KEY SKILLS

Amazon Web Services 90%
Linux 70%
Site Reliability Engineering 80%
Bash 80%
Terraform 80%
Python 80%

Operating systems and HW platforms

Linux: RPM-based / DEB-based, Unix (FreeBSD)
Windows (NT4, Win2000 Server/AS, Win2003-ES...)
Sun(Sunfire 2200, Sun V40z),HP BL-460c

Programming and scripting

Python, Bash, PHP, Object Pascal, C, Java, PERL

Virtualization and containerization

QENU, VMWare, VirtualBox, openNebula, Proxmox, LXC, Docker
Nomad/Consul, Envoy, Nginx

Public cloud platforms and IAAS

AWS, GCP, Azure
Openstack, Terraform
Packer, Ansible

CI/CD

Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Tekton, Bamboo, GoCD, Concourse

Databases

MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, Oracle.

Monitoring and alerting

Prometheus/Graphana
Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana
Zabbix

Cost management

Cloudhealth, Cloudability

SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS ENGINEER
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EPAM Systems, Inc / Systems engineer, DevOps engineer, FinOps engineer 2019-now

DevOps eng, SRE/System administrator (Сontract jobs, multiple projects) 2017-2019

Oggetto Web, LLC / DevOps, SRE/System administrator 2017 - 2018

Federal Cadastral Center "ZEMLYA" / Lead Specialist of the Chief Engineering Department 2005 - 2009

Сontract jobs, multiple projects / System administrator, Infrastructure solution architect 2004 - 2006

JSC “Scientific design office computing systems” / Programmer for Built-in systems 1997

EDUCATION
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Ph.D, TSURE/ SFEDU 08/2002

Master’s degree in Tech. and Technologies, TSURE 08/1998

Engineer's degree in Software engineering, TSURE 04/1997

Bachelor’s degree in Tech. and Technologies, TSURE 04/1996

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

FinOps Practitioner

FinOps Certified Practitioner

AZ-900

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner

AWS Partner: Technical Accredited

MACH Mindset

Modern Technology with MACH

Well-Architected Proficient

Contact

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