Oleksandr Simonov Tallinn, EE

Oleksandr Simonov

"Engineer first. CEO second."

role
Engineer · Founder & CEO @ Amoniac OÜ
based
Tallinn, Estonia · remote-friendly
since
IT 2000 (Mandrake 7.2) · Ruby 2010 · K8s 2017
focus
Platform Engineering · IDP · Cloud-Native · IaC
principle
KISS — find solutions that are simple, easy to maintain, and scale.
oss
github.com/simonoff · 5+ projects
talks
8+ public talks · slideshare/Amoniac_OU
contact

20+ years writing code in production. 15+ years shipping Ruby. Today I run Amoniac OÜ and still commit — to platforms, to open source, to clients' codebases.

2000 first Linux · Mandrake 7.2 · the start
2002 first paid PHP commit · freelance
~2005 Gentoo contributor · Cyrillic UTF-8 support
2010 switched to Ruby · joined Railsware
~2012 openSUSE · Erlang package maintainer
2014 founded Amoniac OÜ · Tallinn
2017 Kubernetes in production · CNCF
2024 kubespray contributor · kubernetes-sigs
now 15+ talks · 7+ OSS · still shipping
  • Ruby
  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • Vue
  • React
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • PostgreSQL
# Domain Scope
01 Platform Engineering Internal Developer Platforms · golden paths · self-service infra
02 Cloud-Native / Kubernetes Production K8s · operators · multi-cluster · CNCF contributor
03 Infrastructure as Code Terraform · GitOps · automation at every level
04 Backend & Distributed Systems Ruby · Go · 20 years shipping production code
Repo Lang Description
ruby Ruby Ruby library for manipulating zip archives. Long-running maintainer.
roo Ruby Read Excel, OpenOffice, Google Sheets, CSV from Ruby. Long-running maintainer.
kubespray (PRs) Go DigitalOcean external cloud provider · DOKS controller · CNCF / kubernetes-sigs
Gentoo (contributor) Linux Authored proper Cyrillic UTF-8 support · upstream contributor
openSUSE (maintainer) Linux Erlang packages maintainer

full list → github.com/simonoff

8+ public talks · click any card to open on SlideShare

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linkedin
in/simonoff
company
amoniac.eu