Profile
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
About · 20 years
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
Expertise
| # | 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 |
Open Source
| 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
Talks & writing
8+ public talks · click any card to open on SlideShare
Contact
Initiate engagement.
Book 30-min intro →- alex@amoniac.eu
- in/simonoff
- github
- github.com/simonoff
- company
- amoniac.eu