About Lev Goncharov

• In real life: cyclist, camper, engineer & coffee person.
• At work: Innovative Senior DevOps Engineer with broad knowledge and understanding of modern technologies, 11+ years of experience in designing, automating and implementing IaC approaches. I believe that infrastructure is a code & we must use the same philosophy for infrastructure as for software development.

Contacts

• t.me/ultralisc
• lev [at] goncharov [dot] xyz

Social activity, trainings, courses, awards

• Сerts

2021

• Conducted configuration management course in Devops School.
• Made speech(RU) at T-Meetup: DevOps Life Cycle. IDLC = SDLC + Ansible: IaC Development Life Cycle: Ansible based story.
• Gave the interview at DevopsConf

2020

• Finished elementary german course.
• Conducted Ansible(RU) course.
• Conducted & Organized Devops School
• Made speech(ENG) at T Community days. Agreements as Code.
• Made speech(RU) at TechLeadConf. Agreements as Code.
• Recorded nsfw.co.in/03 podcast. Ansible good ot not.
• Made speech(RU) at T@Home. Time management in real life.
• Made speech(RU) at T@Home. Lessons learned from working remotely for 3 years or how to save your bacon and sanity.
• Recorded nsfw.co.in/02 podcast. HardSoft Skills , DevOps interview, management RU vs EN.
• Recorded nsfw.co.in/01 podcast. Work from home.
• Made speech(RU) at DevOps-40. How to test Ansible and don’t go nuts.
• Made speech(ENG) at Configuration Management Camp in Ghent, BE. Lessons learned from testing Over 200,000 lines of Infrastructure Code.
• Made speech(ENG) at DevConf.CZ 2020 in Brno, CZ. Lessons learned from testing Over 200,000 lines of Infrastructure Code.
• Got the 3rd place in the gym competition.

2019

• Made & conducted Ansible course in English & Russian.
• Finished upper-intermediate english course.
• Got the award as best team player at DevOps Battle 2.0.
• Participated at the Alexander Kadyrov podcast №2 podcast.
• Made speech(RU) at Fall marathon. A technical article and a speech are sides of the same coin.
• Participated at the Linkmeup №22 podcast.
• Made speech(RU) at DevopsConf. Ansible: Coreos to centos, 18 months long journey.
• Made speech at DevopsConf. Lessons learned from testiting Over 200 000 lines of Infrastructure Code.
• Made speech(ENG) at ITGM #14 (ENG). Let us deploy to openshift.
• Made speech(RU) at K8S Spb meetup. Let us deploy to openshift.
• Completed course Storytelling tools - instruments for speakers

2018

• Made & conducted Ansible(RU).
• Finished intermediate english course.
• Finished Microsoft course 20533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
• Created & conducted internal course introduction to ansible.
• Created & conducted k8s/terraform/gcp workshop at hashicorp meetup.
• Created & conducted k8s/terraform/gcp workshop at chaos constructions.
• Made speech(RU) at Geekpicnic about Time management in real life.
• Made speech(RU) at SpbLUG about ansible roles testing.
• Made speech(RU) about vagrant at internal conference devops days t-systems.
• Made speech(RU) at hashicorp meetup about testing custom linux distributive.

2016

• Was awarded certificate of honor.
• Made speech(RU) about SDS development at internal conference.

2015

• Did volunteer photography at surf camp.
• Made speech(RU) about migration from monolith to microservices at internal meetup.
• Made speech(RU) about monitoring at internal meetup.

2014

• Made speech(RU) at dotnetconf about migration from monolith to microservices.

2013

• Made speech(RU) at Microsoft Patterns&Practice club about Windows server 2012 features.

2012

• UK trip by car.

2011

• Graduated from CSU with a masters degree in computer science.
• Finished linguaphone intermediate course in English club.
• Finished intermediate course in English club.

2010

• Created & conducted information security course.
• Participated at CTF competitions (team wildride): UralCTF, RuCTF,

2009

• Created & conducted Freebsd administration course.
• Participated at CTF competitions (team wildride): UfoCTF, CIPHER, HARCTF, RuCTF, RuCTFE.

2005

• Graduated from school.
• Got the award for great results in regional math-cryptography olympiad.
• Got the award for great results in regional physics olympiad.

2001

• Got the 3rd junior category in chess.

2000

• Got the 4rd junior category in chess.