About Lev Goncharov

• In real life: cyclist, camper, engineer & coffee person.
• At work: As an infrastructure simplifying engineer, I’ve seen infrastructure from completely different points of view: as a system administrator, software-defined storage developer, and DevOps engineer. Fortunately, there’s an unchanged part. I believe that infrastructure is code and therefore we must use the same philosophy for infrastructure as for software development.

Contacts

• t.me/ultralisc
• lev [at] goncharov [dot] xyz

Social activity, trainings, courses, awards

• Сerts

2024

• Made speech how to use GPT for IaC.
• Prepared devops roadmap.
• Finished course The Science of Well-Being.
• Finished course Go Programming Essentials.
• Finished course Programming with Golang.
• Finished course Getting Started with Go.
• Wrote Article How to make a speech and don’t go nuts.
• Wrote Article(RU) Tarragona Travel Guide.
• Conducted multiple IaC courses in International Devops School.
• Finished course Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT.
• Wrote Article(RU) How to make a designer renovation without a designer in 15 months and make a 10% mistake in the budget.
• Added domain_ou support for windows customization for terraform-provider-vsphere.
• Added handling ANSIBLE_FILTER_PLUGINS env var in ansible/molecule.
• Hiked via Francigena & wrote article(RU) how to hike via Francigena.

2023

• Made speech how to use terraform with Vmware and migrate 300 VMs to terraform.
• Wrote Article(RU) How to organize archive at home.
• Participated in International Devops School transformation.
• Conducted multiple IaC courses in International Devops School.
• Participated in stream about relocation to Spain.
• Wrote article(RU) Relocation guide to Spain.
• Made speech How to make a speech and don’t go nuts at Valencia Tech Camp.
• Made speech IDLC = SDLC + IaC: IaC Development Life Cycle at T-Systems Iberia Technical Meetup.
• Hiked camino de Santiago & wrote article(RU) How to hike Camino de Santiago with children.
• Finished spanish A2 course.

2022

• Conducted multiple IaC courses in Devops School.
• Recorded IaC introduction for Devops Bootcamp.
• Finished A1 Spanish course.
• Created telegram channel(RU) about relocation to spain.
• Write article(RU) How to unlock AWS account via kindle or 5 steps to lose your AWS account.
• Created relocation2spain.github.io.
• Added support path with spaces in gardenlinux OS distro.
• Fixed bug build fails on mac because there is no /bin/true in gardenlinux OS distro.
• Participated in internal startup incubator
• Finished A2 german course.
• Recorded Paper podcast about How to get work/life balance.

2021

• Made speech How to make an internal educational course at Christmas Marathon.
• Conducted multiple IaC courses in Devops School.
• Write article(RU) IDLC = SDLC + Ansible: IaC Development Life Cycle: Ansible based story.
• Write article(RU) User’s home directory in ansible or what could be simpler? How is it calculated?.
• Write article about YAML.
• Write article(RU) IaC introduction.
• Made speech(RU) at T-Meetup: DevOps Life Cycle. IDLC = SDLC + Ansible: IaC Development Life Cycle: Ansible based story.
• Gave the interview at DevopsConf.

2020

• Created the vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template for ansible.
• Finished elementary A1 german course.
• Created IaC course for Devops School.
• Participated in Devops School creation.
• Made speech(ENG) at T Community days. Agreements as Code.
• Made speech(RU) at TechLeadConf. Agreements as Code.
• Recorded nsfw.co.in/03 podcast. Ansible good ot not.
• Made speech(RU) at T@Home. Time management in real life.
• Made speech(RU) at T@Home. Lessons learned from working remotely for 3 years or how to save your bacon and sanity.
• Recorded nsfw.co.in/02 podcast. HardSoft Skills , DevOps interview, management RU vs EN.
• Recorded nsfw.co.in/01 podcast. Work from home.
• Made speech(RU) at DevOps-40. How to test Ansible and don’t go nuts.
• Made speech(ENG) at Configuration Management Camp in Ghent, BE. Lessons learned from testing Over 200,000 lines of Infrastructure Code.
• Made speech(ENG) at DevConf.CZ 2020 in Brno, CZ. Lessons learned from testing Over 200,000 lines of Infrastructure Code.
• Got the 3rd place in the gym competition.

2019

• Improved & conducted Ansible course in English & Russian.
• Finished upper-intermediate english course.
• Got the award as best team player at DevOps Battle 2.0.
• Participated at the Alexander Kadyrov podcast №2 podcast.
• Made speech(RU) at Fall marathon. A technical article and a speech are sides of the same coin.
• Participated at the Linkmeup №22 podcast.
• Made speech(RU) at DevopsConf. Ansible: Coreos to centos, 18 months long journey.
• Made speech at DevopsConf. Lessons learned from testiting Over 200 000 lines of Infrastructure Code.
• Made speech(ENG) at ITGM #14 (ENG). Let us deploy to openshift.
• Made speech(RU) at K8S Spb meetup. Let us deploy to openshift.
• Completed course Storytelling tools - instruments for speakers

2018

• Created from scratch Ansible course in Russian.
• Finished intermediate english course.
• Finished Microsoft course 20533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
• Created & conducted internal course introduction to ansible.
• Created & conducted k8s/terraform/gcp workshop at hashicorp meetup.
• Created & conducted k8s/terraform/gcp workshop at chaos constructions.
• Made speech(RU) at Geekpicnic about Time management in real life.
• Made speech(RU) at SpbLUG about ansible roles testing.
• Made speech(RU) about vagrant at internal conference devops days T-Systems.
• Made speech(RU) at hashicorp meetup about testing custom linux distributive.

2016

• Was awarded certificate of honor.
• Made speech(RU) about SDS development at internal conference.

2015

• Did volunteer photography at surf camp.
• Made speech(RU) about migration from monolith to microservices at internal meetup.
• Made speech(RU) about monitoring at internal meetup.

2014

• Made speech(RU) at dotnetconf about migration from monolith to microservices.

2013

• Made speech(RU) at Microsoft Patterns&Practice club about Windows server 2012 features.

2012

• UK trip by car.

2011

• Graduated from CSU with a masters degree in computer science as information security specialist. Master thesis: System call interception in linux-kernel module.
• Finished linguaphone intermediate course in English club.
• Finished intermediate course in English club.

2010

• Wrote article(RU) System call interception in linux-kernel module.
• Created & conducted information security course.
• Participated at CTF competitions (team wildride): UralCTF, RuCTF,

2009

• Created & conducted Freebsd administration course.
• Participated at CTF competitions (team wildride): UfoCTF, CIPHER, HARCTF, RuCTF, RuCTFE.

2005

• Graduated from school.
• Got the award for great results in regional math-cryptography olympiad.
• Got the award for great results in regional physics olympiad.

2001

• Got the 3rd junior category in chess.

2000

• Got the 4rd junior category in chess.