Alexei Ledenev

Long ago, in a perfectly ordinary corner of the software universe, I started persuading computers, clouds, containers, and Kubernetes clusters to behave in ways that were useful, reliable, and occasionally intentional.

Since then, I’ve led architecture and engineering teams, built cloud platforms, designed distributed systems, and created open-source tools such as pumba, KubeIP, kube-secrets-init, and ccgram - because apparently production systems were not failing in enough interesting ways on their own.

My work lives somewhere between Software Architecture, Kubernetes, Cloud, chaos engineering, and AI infrastructure: the sort of place where dashboards glow green, alarms remain suspiciously quiet, and everyone hopes DNS has read the plan.

I enjoy building practical tools for complicated systems, automating the boring parts, understanding the dangerous parts, and reminding infrastructure - gently, but firmly - that uptime is not just a lifestyle choice. 🪐