Hello, world! 👋#
I am an open source community builder and DevRel consultant. Hardware engineer turned CI/CD infra maintainer turned developer tools engineer turned open source contributor and community builder. Some of my hats: Jenkins core maintainer, CNCF/CDF Ambassador, Testcontainers Champion. I'm also a former CD Foundation TOC chair, Jenkins, and OpenAPI Initiative governance board member.
I work on multiple open-source projects (Jenkins, WireMock, Testcontainers, etc.) and also do open-source and DevRel consulting. Alumni of Gradle, WireMock, CloudBees, Dynatrace, SPbSPU, Synopsys, and Intel Labs.
I live in Switzerland.
I am Russian, and I stand with Ukraine in the ongoing war.
I contribute to the military and humanitarian support for Ukraine,
and also participate in the Russian anti-war organizations.
#StandWithUkraine #RussiansAgainstPutin
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My Interests#
I used to be a classic introverted engineer working on automation and developer tools. In 2018, I realized I was more interested in working directly with end users and contributors, helping them by facilitating changes and unblocking contributions. So, welcome to the community, product, and project management career! Whether I work on private or open source projects, I follow the collaborative approach and try to build and grow communities around the area of my work. And yes, I am a big supporter of InnerSource.
My Communities and Projects#
Jenkins was the first open-source community I joined. No regrets, it was a great experience! At Jenkins, I was a plugin developer, core maintainer, board member, event officer, and held many other roles. I am not a mother of dragons, but I am definitely a father of bugs 😊 My goal is to make the Jenkins community the best place to participate, and to ensure long-term evolution of the project and its community. We're always looking for contributors, code or not!
Testcontainers. I've been using Testcontainers since 2018, and in 2023 started actively contributing to the project. I'm a creator and maintainer of Testcontainers for C/C++ and a contributor to other implementations and modules.
WireMock. I joined it in 2023 to help with growing user and developer communities. It is a flexible, open-source tool for building mock APIs and testing your client apps, originally a Java testing library. More about WireMock
Open Hardware. I am an open hardware enthusiast with some experience in RISC-V and OpenRISC ecosystems. I believe it will eat the world too 🚀 I used to volunteer in the Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation and contribute to the LibreCores project. I also have a PhD degree in hardware design and electronics design automation.
Pet Projects. I am a co-maintainer of Windows Service Wrapper (WinSW), not so active these days 😢 In June 2021, I also started the FaaScinator project - a tool that converts Java CLI apps to FaaS containers and OpenFaaS templates, powered by Quarkus.