Discussion on how to become a good DevOps engineer

Participants of the discussion:

The experts will discuss these points, and not only:

Who DevOps actually is? What are some of the key skills and knowledge areas that a DevOps engineer should have? Yaml engineers — is it possible to be devops knowing only yaml? Is dev skills needed? Which language better to learn? How can you stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the DevOps field?
What role does automation play in the DevOps workflow, and how can CI/CD processes be optimized for maximum efficiency?
What are some best practices for monitoring applications in a DevOps environment, and how can these practices be optimized for maximum effectiveness?
What are some best practices for troubleshooting applications in a DevOps environment, and how can these practices be optimized for maximum effectiveness?
Can DevOps practices and habits be used without cloud (for example on your own datacentre)?
How to talk about money? How to choose a correct place to grow?
Stories from the own experience of experts of discussion: what mistakes in DevOps they made and how they fixed it.

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Vsevolod Polyakov

Head of Infrastructure, Let's Enhance

The consultant, technologist, was happy to work in companies such as Datarobot, Ring.com, Grammarly and others
Currently consulting on infrastructure, architecture, monitoring and devops
Founder of the largest and most active devops community in Ukraine ukrops.club

Anton Koshevyi

MacPaw Way

Staff Site Reliability Engineer at MacPaw Way
Has 15+ years in IT. He worked in the world of VoIP chaos, FreeBSD sects, team leading, MacOS from the DevOps side, of course, and the standard web.
These days he has been doing a lot of CI/CD for MacOS, ask him anything about that
Boring part: Kubernetes, Clouds, etc.
Twitter

Sergii Bielskyi

Eleks

Head of Research and Development Office at ELEKS
Microsoft Azure MVP
A multi-skilled expert with comprehensive experience of designing, developing and deploying Cloud and Hybrid architectures and infrastructure for software applications
Having over 10 years of IT experience Azure and SharePoint infrastructures. Possessing a proven ability to lead project teams to successfully deliver agreed upon solutions of the highest quality, often in complex and challenging customer environments
He has managed SharePoint Competence Center working in MS partner company
Organizes events in the community group, writes articles in the blog, participates in the conference as a speaker
A lead of Ukrainian IoT and SharePoint Community
He has been a speaker at such conferences as Local community, SQLSaturday, MS Swit, net Fest, Just do It, Azure Day, IoT hackathon etc.
Twitter, Medium, GitHub

Valery Kobyzev

DevOps MLOps Engineer

Has over 18 years in IT. Started as a Linux/FreeBSD system administrator in a hosting company with almost 1000 servers.
Has expertise in building data centers and how the Internet works from the ground up, including obtaining an IP/ASN and connecting to an ISP.
He has extensive experience in highlod. In particular, this includes support for streaming platforms, protection against DDoS mitigation, and network security.
In addition to commercial development, he also works on own pet projects, many of which later became profitable. He works with bare-metal environment as well as with cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, GCP.
Recently, he has been deep dive into cutting edge techologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

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