About Lev Goncharov

• Simple Engineer Notes
• In real life: cyclist, camper, engineer & coffee person.
• At work: As an infrastructure simplifying engineer, I’ve seen infrastructure from completely different points of view: as a system administrator, software-defined storage developer, and DevOps engineer. Fortunately, there’s an unchanged part. I believe that infrastructure is code and therefore 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

• Certs

2025

• Finished specialization Go Programming Language.
• Finished the course The Bilingual Brain.
• Created telegram channel about Simple Engineer Notes.
• Finished specialization Programming with Google Go.
• Wrote the article Terraform for VMware: Key Takeaways and Lessons from Managing Hundreds of VMs.
• Wrote the article GPT 4 IaC.
• Finished course algorithms-part1.
• Wrote the article (RU) My journey to normal coffee.
• Finished course Science of Exercise.
• Finished course Learning How to Learn.

2024

• Made the speech on how to use GPT for IaC.
• Prepared devops roadmap.
• Finished course The Science of Well-Being.
• Finished course Go Programming Essentials.
• Wrote the article How to make a speech and don’t go nuts.
• Wrote the article (RU) Tarragona Travel Guide.
• Conducted multiple IaC courses in International DevOps School.
• Finished course Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT.
• Wrote the article (RU) How to make a designer renovation without a designer in 15 months and make a 10% mistake in the budget.
• Added domain_ou support for windows customization for terraform-provider-vsphere.
• Added handling ANSIBLE_FILTER_PLUGINS env var in ansible/molecule.
• Hiked via Francigena & Wrote the article (RU) how to hike via Francigena.

2023

• Made the speech on Terraform for VMware: Key Takeaways and Lessons from Managing Hundreds of VMs.
• Wrote the article (RU) How to organize archive at home.
• Participated in International DevOps School transformation.
• Conducted multiple IaC courses in International DevOps School.
• Participated in the stream about relocation to Spain.
• Wrote the article (RU) Relocation guide to Spain.
• Made the speech How to make a speech and don’t go nuts at Valencia Tech Camp.
• Made the speech IDLC = SDLC + IaC: IaC Development Life Cycle at T-Systems Iberia Technical Meetup.
• Hiked Camino de Santiago & Wrote the article (RU) How to hike Camino de Santiago with children.
• Finished Spanish A2 course.

2022

• Conducted multiple IaC courses in DevOps School.
• Recorded IaC introduction for DevOps Bootcamp.
• Finished A1 Spanish course.
• Created telegram channel (RU) about relocation to Spain.
• Wrote the article (RU) How to unlock AWS account via kindle or 5 steps to lose your AWS account.
• Created relocation2spain.github.io.
• Added support path with spaces in gardenlinux OS distro.
• Fixed bug build fails on mac because there is no /bin/true in gardenlinux OS distro.
• Participated in internal startup incubator
• Finished A2 German course.
• Recorded Paper podcast about How to get work/life balance.

2021

• Made the speech How to make an internal educational course at Christmas Marathon.
• Conducted multiple IaC courses in DevOps School.
• Wrote the article (RU) IDLC = SDLC + Ansible: IaC Development Life Cycle: Ansible based story.
• Wrote the article (RU) User’s home directory in ansible or what could be simpler? How is it calculated?.
• Wrote the article about YAML.
• Wrote the article (RU) IaC introduction.
• Made the speech (RU) at T-Meetup: DevOps Life Cycle. IDLC = SDLC + Ansible: IaC Development Life Cycle: Ansible based story.
• Gave the interview at DevOpsConf.

2020

• Created the vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template for ansible.
• Finished elementary A1 German course.
• Created IaC course for DevOps School.
• Participated in DevOps School creation.
• Made the speech (ENG) at T Community days. Agreements as Code.
• Made the speech (RU) at TechLeadConf. Agreements as Code.
• Recorded nsfw.co.in/03 podcast. Ansible good or not.
• Made the speech (RU) at T@Home. Time management in real life.
• Made the 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 the speech (RU) at DevOps-40. How to test Ansible and don’t go nuts.
• Made the speech (ENG) at Configuration Management Camp in Ghent, BE. Lessons learned from testing Over 200,000 lines of Infrastructure Code.
• Made the 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

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

2018

• Created from scratch Ansible course in Russian.
• 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 the speech (RU) at Geek Picnic about Time Management in Real Life.
• Made the speech (RU) at SpbLUG about Ansible Roles Testing.
• Made the speech (RU) about Vagrant at internal conference DevOps Days T-Systems.
• Made the speech (RU) at HashiCorp meetup about Testing Custom Linux Distributive.

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

• Made the speech (RU) at Microsoft Patterns & Practices club about Windows Server 2012 features.

2012

• UK trip by car.

2011

• Graduated from CSU with a master’s degree in computer science as an information security specialist. Master thesis: System call interception in a Linux kernel module.
• Finished Linguaphone intermediate course in English club.
• Finished intermediate course in English club.

2010

• Wrote the article (RU) System call interception in a Linux kernel module.
• Created & conducted an information security course.
• Participated in CTF competitions (team wildride): UralCTF, RuCTF.

2009

• Created & conducted FreeBSD administration course.
• Participated in 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 4th junior category in chess.