User:4sokol

Contact Info

Name: Vladimir Sokolenko
Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Website: https://sokolenko.eu
GitHub: @4sokol
LinkedIn: @sokolenko
Fedora Account: @4sokol
Redhat Sysadmin: @vsokolenko
Medium: @vsokolenko
Email: v@sokolenko.eu
Telegram: vladimir_sokolenko
Matrix: @4sokol:fedora.im
IRC: @VSokolenko

Location: Prague (Czech Republic)
Languages: English, Czech, Russian, German

BIO

Vladimir has been working in the field of IT for more than 16 years: GNU/Linux, Hybrid Cloud Environments, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containers and automation. Loves Linux and the concepts of Open Source and vendor-agnostic solutions.
Experienced in the development, support and debug of different IT projects of various levels of complexity as Senior Engineer and Team Lead.
In 2012, Vladimir studied in Dresden Technical University as a postgraduate student (PhD student). He has a Master degree in Computer Science.

Stack of technologies:
- GNU/Linux: Red Hat (RHEL) • SUSE/SLES • Debian • Ubuntu Server • CentOS • Fedora • Oracle Linux • Alma Linux • Alpine
- Containers and orchestration: Kubernetes (K8S) • Docker • Podman • K3S • EKS • AKS • Rancher • ArgoCD • minikube • Trivy • Hadolint • Isolevant
- Scripting: BASH • Python
- IaC & Automation: Ansible • Terraform • Red Hat Automation Platform (Ansible Tower) • AWX
- Public Clouds: Azure • GCP • AWS
- CI/CD: Jenkins • CloudBees • GitHub Actions • GitLab CI
- Virtualization: KVM • QEMU • Proxmox • Hyper-V
- Monitoring and Analytics tools: Zabbix • Dynatrace • Prometheus • Nagios • Grafana • Splunk • SumoLogic • ELK (ElasticSearch, LogStash, and Kibana)
- Hybrid Cloud: OpenStack • NextCloud
- Networking • GIT • GitHub • BitBucket • High Availability • nginx • HAProxy •SQL
- BI Services: Tableau Server • Alteryx Server • Kafka • Spark • Zookeeper • Hadoop • dbt • Collibra DQ Server • Airflow • Matillion • Keboola • Snowflake

Professional interest areas: DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Automation Engineering. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Architecture, Linux Engineering

Fedora Project and other Open Source Contribution

- 01.2024. Contribution at the KDE Plasma 6 within Fedora Linux (official link, test report)
- 01.2024. Fedora 39 Kernel 6.7 Test Week (official link, test report)
- 11.2023. Fedora 39 Kernel 6.6 Test Week (official link, test report)
- 09.2023. Fedora 39 Kernel 6.5 Test Week (official link, test report)
- 08.2023. Fedora 39 DNF5 Package Manager Test Week (official link, test report)
- 07.2023. Fedora Kernel 6.4 Test Week (official link, test report)
- 05.2023. Fedora Kernel 6.3 Test Week (official link, test report)
- 03.2023. Fedora 38 Upgrade Test Day (official link, test report)
- 03.2023. Fedora 38 DNF 5 (official link, test report)
- 03.2023. Fedora Kernel 6.2 Test Week (official link, test report)
- 12.2022. New Fedora Anaconda Installer detailed test (GitHub report)
- 11.2022. New OpenSUSE Linux service-based installer (D-Installer) detailed test (official link, test report)
- 10.2022. Fedora Project Kernel 6.0 Test Week (official link, test report)

Awards&Certifications

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) (verify)
dbt Fundamentals (verify)
Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals (verify)
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002) (verify)
Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (verify)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (verify)
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect (verify)
Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer (verify)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (verify)
Databricks Partner Essentials (verify)
Alteryx Server Implementation Certified (verify)
Google Cloud Certified - Cloud Digital Leader (verify)
Sumo Logic Certified: Administration (verify)
Sumo Logic Certified: Fundamentals (verify)
CompTIA Network+ (verify)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (verify)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (verify)
Certified Linux Administrator (LPIC-1) (verify)
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (verify)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (verify)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (verify)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2021 Architect Associate (verify)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2021 Associate (verify)
Oracle Cloud Overview (verify)
Google IT Support Professional Certificate (verify)
Linux Server Management and Security (verify)
Windows Server Management and Security (verify)
Pitman Qualifications Certificate (credentials id: PQ0679174/903003/158688)