Oleksandr Simonov Tallinn, EE

Oleksandr Simonov

"Engineer first. CEO second."

role
Founder & CEO @ Amoniac OÜ
based
Tallinn, Estonia · remote-friendly
since
IT 2000 · Ruby 2010 · Go 2017 · K8s 2019
focus
Platform Engineering · Cloud-Native · Kubernetes · IaC
principle
KISS — find solutions that are simple, easy to maintain, and scale.

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

2000 first Linux · the start
2002 first paid PHP commit · freelance
2004 Gentoo contributor · Cyrillic UTF-8 support
2008 switched to Ruby
2009 openSUSE · Erlang package maintainer
2014 founded Amoniac OÜ · Tallinn
2017 Docker in production
2020 Kubernetes in production
2021 CKA certification
2026 Amoniac joined Linux foundation
now CNCF · OSS · still shipping
  • Ruby
  • Go
  • Vue
  • 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.
pipedrive.rb Ruby Pipedrive.com API wrapper
External DNS DigitalOcean Webhook Go A webhook provider for ExternalDNS that manages DNS records in DigitalOcean.
Supabase Kubernets CNPG Helm chart Helm Opinionated fork of supabase-community/supabase-kubernetes that replaces the single-pod Postgres StatefulSet with a CloudNativePG (CNPG) Cluster.
kubespray (PRs) Helm Cillium custom installation into kubespray
Gentoo (contributor) Linux Authored proper Cyrillic UTF-8 support · upstream contributor
openSUSE (maintainer) Linux Erlang packages maintainer

full list → github.com/simonoff

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in/simonoff
company
amoniac.eu