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Max Shalenkov

Senior IT Operations Engineer who turns homelab experiments into production-grade infrastructure.

Max Shalenkov

Senior IT Operations Engineer who turns homelab experiments into production-grade infrastructure.

Saratov, Russia

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Skills

  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Semaphore UI
  • Bash
  • Python
  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • Proxmox
  • Networking
  • DNS
  • VPN
  • AmneziaWG
  • HAProxy
  • OPNsense
  • Active Directory
  • Authentik
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Alertmanager
  • LLMs

About

By day, keeping internal IT services running smoothly at Mirantis. By night, operating a live VPN service for 100+ users, automating everything in sight, and self-hosting half the internet on Proxmox. Passionate about network security, infrastructure-as-code, and building things that actually work at scale.

Work Experience

2021 — Present

IT Operations Engineer | Mirantis Inc

Remote

Summary

Part of the IT Operations team administering internal services and tooling used by 600+ employees across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Internal IT services administration and support
  • Identity and access management
  • Security tooling and operational improvements
  • Cross-team IT operations coordination
  • Ansible automation with Semaphore UI for internal IT workflows
  • MDM systems administration and scripting (macOS, Windows) for administrative task automation
  • VPN infrastructure management and cross-office network integration

Achievements

  • Led company-wide migration from LastPass to 1Password for 600+ users
  • Built an internal Employee Account Audit System providing unified visibility into employee accounts across all managed external services
  • Deployed an AI-powered chatbot for the IT support channel, reducing response time and manual workload
  • Built Ansible-based automation pipelines using Semaphore UI, triggered by Jira Cloud events to automate routine IT operations
  • Deployed AmneziaWG tunnels to securely connect Russian and international offices, enabling unified network access across regions
  • Developed MDM scripts for macOS and Windows to automate device configuration and administrative tasks at scale
  • Linux
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Docker

2019 — 2021

Systems Administrator | SVIK LLC

On Site

Summary

Built and maintained the entire IT infrastructure from the ground up, serving as the sole IT specialist for a 50+ user organization.

Responsibilities

  • Network and server infrastructure administration
  • Database and corporate services management
  • IT budget planning and infrastructure development
  • User support and onboarding

Achievements

  • Deployed Active Directory, enabling centralized authentication and accelerating employee onboarding
  • Migrated telephony to VoIP (IP telephony), significantly reducing communication costs
  • Implemented corporate email system for the entire organization
  • Maintained stable IT operations for 50+ users as a single-person IT department
  • Windows Server
  • Active Directory
  • VoIP

Education

Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov

2018 - 2022
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

Projects

SafeWayVPN
safewayvpn.com

Commercial VPN service serving 100+ active users. Two-hop architecture (RU entry nodes → EU/TR exit nodes) using HAProxy L4 load balancing and AmneziaWG tunnels. Full observability stack with Telegram alerting. Ansible playbooks for automated node provisioning.

  • Remnawave
  • Xray-core
  • HAProxy
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Ansible
  • Linux

Homelab Monitoring Stack

Production-grade observability infrastructure deployed on an external VPS: Prometheus + Grafana + Alertmanager with Telegram alerting, protected by Authentik SSO. Monitors 40+ self-hosted Docker services running on Proxmox.

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Alertmanager
  • Authentik
  • Docker
  • Proxmox

mcp-remnawave
github.comTrackLine/mcp-remnawave

MCP server exposing 51 tools for managing Remnawave VPN panels directly from LLM clients like Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf.

  • MCP
  • TypeScript
  • Docker
  • LLMs

Fragment API Gateway
github.comTrackLine/fragment-api-gateway

Automated REST API for programmatically purchasing Telegram Stars and Premium subscriptions via the TON blockchain, with multi-wallet load balancing and webhook notifications.

  • REST API
  • TON
  • Python
  • Telegram Bot

Telegram Shop Bot
github.comTrackLine/telegram-shop-bot

Lightweight Telegram-based e-commerce bot for selling digital goods with full shop flow, YooKassa payments, FNS receipt generation, and an admin dashboard.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • aiogram
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker

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