Alexander Koksharov

Alexander Koksharov has over 15 years of work experience with various companies. Alexander'smost recent job is as a DevOps Engineer at VoxSmart starting October 2022. Prior to that, from December 2019 to September 2022, they worked as a DevOps Specialist at TrustSoft Cloud, where they developed CI/CD pipelines for service development/deployment, maintained production Kubernetes clusters, and developed tools for service integration using various technologies such as AWS, Azure, Gitlab, Terraform, Kubernetes, Openstack, Golang, and Istio.

From June 2018 to November 2019, they were a Senior Systems Engineer at Oracle responsible for configuring a legacy DC with thousands of servers using SaltStack and automating deployment and provisioning of LDAP service.

At Red Hat, Alexander worked as a Software Engineer from November 2017 to June 2018, where they solved issues in the FreeIPA product, contributed to the design of the CI suite, and performed technical research and analysis with skills in python, LDAP, and kerberos. Alexander also worked as an OpenShift Technical Support Engineer from October 2015 to November 2017.

From December 2013 to September 2015, they worked as a Network Specialist at AT&T Global Services where they operated the 2nd level of operations of LTE packet core, performed troubleshooting, installed upgrades and configuration changes on live production platforms.

Alexander'searlier work experience includes working as a Customer Services Engineer and Customer Service Representative at Acision from 2009 to 2013, and as a TAC Engineer, New Product Introduction Engineer, and Senior Technical Support Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent from 2005 to 2009. Overall, Alexander has expertise in technical support, network maintenance, and automation using various technologies.

Alexander Koksharov graduated from Kursk State Technical University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Software Technology/Technician in 2001 and a Diploma in Software Development in 2002. Alexander also obtained several additional certifications, including Machine Learning from Coursera in 2018, ITILv3 Foundation from EXIN in 2010, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2021, CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist from The Linux Foundation in 2022, CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator from The Linux Foundation in 2019, Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in High Availability Clustering in 2016, Red Hat Certified Engineer in 2016, and Red Hat Certified System Administrator in 2016.