Panel discussion: "How a DevOps engineer can lose their job with the help of AI in 2026"
DevOps is changing faster than we can update our resumes. In this panel, we’ll talk about how AI and platform engineering are reshaping the engineer’s role, why soft skills are no longer a “nice to have” but a requirement, and how a new career pattern has emerged — Resume-Driven Development. Will DevOps remain an engineer, or evolve into a platform builder, an internal product engineer, or an “AI operator”? Are we still building systems — or mostly portfolios for the next interview? With honesty, irony, and zero bullshit, we’ll break down which skills actually matter in 2026 — and which ones are just LinkedIn hype.
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
Igor Drozd
CTO, Silpo(E-commerce)
- CTO at Silpo, focusing on E-commerce and Ecosystem development
- Over 17 years in IT (with the last 4 years as a CTO)
- Career path from developer and architect to CTO
- In his free time, Igor actively volunteers to support ZSU with FPV drones and runs his own workshop
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Hlib Smoliakov
DevOps Technical Lead at Uklon
- More than 10 years of experience in IT, including 8 years as a DevOps engineer.
- He made his career path from a technical support specialist to a team leader of 10+ specialists.
- Hlib is convinced that DevOps is not just a profession, but a methodology for effective interaction and automation.
