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Yuri Sergeev

Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer with 17+ years of experience in infrastructure and operations. Specializing in virtualization (including GPU workloads), cloud infrastructure automation, Windows/Linux environments, observability, and performance optimization.

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Featured Projects

RadioMap

Full-stack web application for mapping and discovering radio stations worldwide. Backend API with geospatial search, real-time streaming metadata, and an interactive frontend map interface.

Go PostgreSQL PostGIS REST API Docker React

badgesgenerator

Service for dynamically generating custom SVG badges for README files and documentation. Supports various styles, colors, and real-time data sources.

Go SVG REST API Docker

radiobrowser-go

Go client library for the RadioBrowser API — a community-driven database of internet radio stations. Provides typed access to search, filtering, and station metadata.

Go API Client Open Source

Magic Ball as a Service

Fun microservice that serves Magic 8-Ball style predictions via REST API. Lightweight, containerized, and designed as a demo for cloud-native deployment patterns.

Go REST API Docker Kubernetes
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Experience

2023 — Present

Site Reliability Engineer · Yandex

Improved update download speed ~3x by optimizing internal caching and network layer, reducing user session startup time. Migrated GPU virtual machines to a new architecture and driver branch, ensuring seamless user transition and improved VM performance. Reduced user disk mount time from 5-7 seconds to ~0.5 seconds by switching to Windows system APIs, eliminating backend service timeouts. Automated integration and updates of external gaming platforms, cutting manual operations and accelerating new game releases to production. Reduced infrastructure error rate on backend from thousands per day to zero by analyzing Windows interactions and golden image build process. Standardized release processes and documentation (including game documentation generation), simplifying onboarding of new projects. Mentored new team members, conducted onboarding sessions and technical knowledge-sharing meetings.

Windows GPU Virtualization SaltStack Monitoring Go PowerShell
2022 — 2023

DevOps Engineer · Diginavis

Automated CI/CD processes in a Kubernetes environment, ensuring stable delivery of microservices in cloud infrastructure. Implemented observability stack including metrics, alerting, and centralized logging. Automated building and releasing of containerized services.

Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Helm
2019 — 2022

Infrastructure Engineer · Loudplay

Optimized GPU-accelerated virtualization infrastructure (KVM, XenServer) for cloud gaming workloads. Implemented vGPU configurations for gaming virtual machines, improving resource utilization and performance. Built monitoring solutions and improved service resilience across the platform. Conducted R&D on performance optimization and cloud environment integration.

KVM XenServer vGPU Linux Monitoring
2006 — 2019

Systems & Network Administrator · Various Companies

System and network administration: Linux, Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, Hyper-V, VDI. Network engineering with Mikrotik (MTCNA, MTCRE certified), IPSec/L2TP VPN tunnels. Infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, and incident response.

Linux Windows Server Active Directory Mikrotik Hyper-V
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Tech Stack

Infrastructure & IaC

Kubernetes Terraform Packer SaltStack Helm

Virtualization

KVM XenServer Hyper-V vGPU GPU Passthrough

Operating Systems

Linux Windows Server Active Directory

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Loki AlertManager

CI/CD & Containers

GitHub Actions Docker Helm ArgoCD

Networking

Mikrotik IPSec/L2TP DNS/DHCP VPN

Languages & Scripting

Go Bash PowerShell
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Contact

Have a project in mind or want to discuss infrastructure challenges? I'd love to hear from you. Drop me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

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