Expert DevOps & SRE team

Ilia brings the first employees and initial processes within various departments of our business, including DevOps teams, HR, back office, and software products.

His outstanding ability to combine social skills and technical expertise could be traced to the age of 14. At that time, Ilia had been creating a gaming community for over 100 users, which involved both writing Lua scripts and managing and coordinating the team.

Professional interests: human resources, DevOps, Open Source projects and products.

He lives in Ulm with his wife and two cats. His hobbies include League of Legends, Factorio, Satisfactory, RimWorld, and Dwarf Fortress.

Ilya is a seasoned business development specialist who brings the best-of-breed solutions to our partners and direct customers.

He started his career as a technical specialist in IT and soon moved to other business roles, driving his passion for communication and relationship building. During the past years, Ilya has facilitated our expansion into Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Central European regions.

Professional interests: public speaking and business development tactical moves.

He resides in Ulm, Germany, with his wife and a daughter. His hobbies include travelling (40+ countries and counting), platform diving and alpine skiing.

Dmitry builds Palark’s image and is actively involved in the life of Cloud Native & DevOps worldwide communities.

He combined his passion for IT and high-quality, helpful texts by getting his first technical articles printed in popular magazines at the age of 13. Since then, Dmitry has been using his skills to share technical knowledge with a broader community.

Professional interests: Open Source & Free Software movement, Linux, DevOps.

He lives in Portugal with his wife and daughter. His hobbies include yoga, meditation, and other self-development practices.

Renat began his IT journey as a network engineer at a local ISP. However, soon all the existing issues were solved, and he started engaging in other sysadmin activities related to operating FreeBSD on thousands of servers. Further career path involved a strong focus on Linux and later Kubernetes.

Professional interests: highly loaded and highly available systems, distributed messaging, and database systems.

He lives in Ulm with his beautiful wife. His hobbies include programming, data science, video games, and hiking.

Anton went from switches to routers to servers to virtual machines to containers, ultimately settling on Kubernetes. Having walked this path helps him determine the best possible approach for the customer.

He appreciates good architecture while auditing a new project or visiting a new country, and says that figuring out why it was made that way and how it should have been made in the first place is what he loves about his job.

Professional interests: DevOps, Kubernetes, system design, team management and mentoring.

He lives in Germany with his wife and beloved corgi, Mr Muffin. Anton loves going on adventures to other countries, plays badminton on Wednesdays, and insists he’s better than Ilia at League of Legends.