Asciidwarf

Born in the USSR, Leningrad. For the first 25 years, lived in Saint Petersburg where I started participating in open source communities. In 2016, I moved to Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

My career started in hardware and embedded research and engineering, with a focus on quality assurance and distributed systems. I spent some time in the local OpenRISC communities, mostly as advanced user. For a year, I was a doctorate intern at Intel Labs, working on branch prediction and program memory compression for embedded CISC processors. In 2015, I got a PhD degree in Electronics Design Automation.

In 2012, in my professional career, I switched to the QA and automation ___domain, and ran large-scale corporate CI infrastructure at Sitronics and Synopsys. I started contributing to Jenkins, became a maintainer and, 3 years later, got an offer from CloudBees to work on Jenkins and the related products. There, as a principal engineer and tech lead, I coordinated projects focused on Pluggable Storage and on Java 11 support, and also did a lot of architecture R&D. I also led the project’s graduation in the Continuous Delivery Foundation, Keptn’s incubation in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and multiple technical partnerships. After CloudBees, I officially switched to DevRel Programs roles, which ranged from developer advocate and community manager, to product manager and customer success.

I am an open source community builder and maintainer, mostly focusing on software and hardware developer tools. I have contributed to Wikipedia, OSM, and a few other services since ~2014, under a different anonymized account.

My communities include Jenkins, Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Gradle and other projects and organizations.