Maxim Kalyakin — SRE / Monitoring & Infrastructure Engineer

Profile

Monitoring / SRE engineer with hands-on experience operating and developing server infrastructure, monitoring systems, and automated testing platforms. Focused on infrastructure troubleshooting, performance and failure analysis, operational automation, and development of internal technical solutions.

Professional experience

Moscow Electronic School (MESh) / GKU “Infogorod”

April 2026 — Present

Monitoring Engineer / SRE

Support and develop automated testing infrastructure based on Jenkins, Selenoid, and GGR.
Developed monitoring for the testing infrastructure using Prometheus and Grafana: server load, node health, queues, active sessions, and service availability.
Troubleshoot test execution issues, resource utilization, Docker containers, proxy configuration, and network connectivity between servers.
Designed a load-distribution scheme across multiple Selenoid nodes using GGR and proxy for infrastructure running more than 150 functional tests.
Modernized a mobile testing environment: upgraded Jenkins, resolved compatibility issues, and migrated the environment from Java 17 to Java 21.
Acted as interim lead for a monitoring team of ~10 engineers: coordinated work and supported technical problem solving.

DPIcheck

Personal Project

Infrastructure Engineer / Technical Consultant

Designed infrastructure for a VPN/proxy service with servers deployed across multiple regions.
Configured routing, proxy schemes, network access, and firewall rules.
Troubleshot connectivity and service availability incidents; worked with PostgreSQL and Go for internal tools.
After the main development stage, periodically provide technical consulting and help resolve specific infrastructure issues.

Ukids

December 2024 — April 2026

DevOps Engineer

Migrated Nginx log collection and analysis from Grafana + Loki + Promtail to Vector + ClickHouse + Grafana; processed up to 2 TB of logs per month.
Configured log processing and storage and optimized ClickHouse queries.
Created Grafana dashboards, configured alerts, and investigated service issues using monitoring and log data.
Built an internal Go utility for automated creation of corporate email accounts for interns through the ISPmanager API — up to 50 accounts per day.

Technical skills

InfrastructureLinux, Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx, HAProxy, Squid

Monitoring & loggingPrometheus, Grafana, Loki, Promtail, Vector, ClickHouse, alerting

CI / test infrastructureJenkins, GitLab Pipelines, self-hosted GitLab, Selenoid, GGR, Appium

NetworkingTCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, reverse proxy, routing, firewall

Databases & automationPostgreSQL, Go

Languages

RussianNative

EnglishB2 / Upper-Intermediate