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Oleg
Yablokov

Building fault-tolerant observability platforms — from metrics and alerting to SLOs and GitOps.

Oleg Yablokov
IMG · PORTRAIT SRE / DEVOPS
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About

Monitoring, DevOps, and SRE engineer with nearly six years of hands-on experience implementing and evolving observability systems for enterprise and product environments.

Main focus — designing fault-tolerant monitoring platforms from scratch for heterogeneous Linux (and Windows) estates: VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK, vmalert, Alertmanager.

Comfortable with the full DevOps loop — Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Ansible — and with Python exporters that glue infrastructure, Jira, GitLab, and SIEM into one picture.

// open to part-time, B2B, or project consulting — expert, auditor, mentor

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Experience

Apr 2025 — Present

Navio

Lead Engineer

  • Designed and deployed a fault-tolerant VictoriaMetrics cluster in Kubernetes for centralized metrics.
  • Built a full observability stack: Grafana, Zabbix, vmalert, Alertmanager.
  • Developed a suite of custom Python exporters for unified infrastructure monitoring.
  • Introduced SRE practices — SLI / SLO / SLA and service availability criteria.
  • Alert routing with automatic Jira incidents and Telegram / email notifications.
  • Helm charts, Grafana dashboards, and reliable VictoriaMetrics backups.

Feb 2021 — Present

CROC

Engineer

  • Implemented and supported monitoring stacks: Zabbix, Glaber, Grafana, ELK.
  • Built Python integrations between Jira, GitLab, SIEM, APIs, and databases.
  • Automation with Ansible; work with PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Linux backups.

Key projects

  • National central bank — software & service integrations
  • Global gold mining — monitoring rollout & integrations
  • Goldman Sachs Bank — fault-tolerant Zabbix
  • Diamond mining / telecom / power grid — Glaber & Zabbix
  • National statistics agency — information system support
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Skills

Observability

VictoriaMetrics · Grafana · Zabbix · Glaber · Prometheus · vmalert · Alertmanager · ELK · Elastic

Platform & DevOps

Kubernetes · Docker · Helm · Ansible · GitLab CI · Argo CD · AWS · Linux · Ubuntu · CentOS

Engineering

Python · Bash · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse · Cassandra · SQL · Networking · Git · Jira

Languages

Russian — native · English — conversational

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Education

2023

Master’s degree

Moscow Aviation Institute — Management of High-Tech Enterprises

2021

Bachelor’s degree

Moscow Aviation Institute — Computers, Complexes, Systems and Networks

Let’s talk

Need observability that actually holds under load?

Remote-friendly. Available for full-time, part-time, or project work.