Alexey Panasenko

About Alexey Panasenko

At Lambda, as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, I collaborate on enhancing the reliability and stability of the AI cloud control plane. Leveraging expertise in Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and ArgoCD, our team ensures seamless deployment of new features, optimized application performance, and robust observability solutions. Key contributions include optimizing ArgoCD appset structures and creating automation tools in Go and Python for safe application deployments. With over seven years of experience in site reliability engineering, I have contributed to designing and managing scalable systems for high-load environments in cloud and AI infrastructures. My work reflects a strong focus on operational efficiency and automation, supporting reliable and high-performing cloud services. At Lambda, I remain committed to driving innovation and ensuring mission-critical systems operate seamlessly.

Experience

1. Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Control Plane

   Lambda

   Jul 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Working as a part of Control Plane team ensuring stable functioning of Lambda.ai cloud, timely release of new features and performance improvements and providing sufficient observability of our core applications- took over the daily deployment process, rolling out (and rolling back if necessary) new features and performance improvements for our applications - Optimized ArgoCD appset/kustomize structure for control plane applications, improving clarity, readability and change safety, significantly reducing overlay duplication, saving thousands of lines of duplicated configs (ArgoCD, Kustomize, Kubernetes)- Designed and developed (heavily leaning into agentic AI development best practices) a Temporal-based deployment automation system in Go, which allows to automate parallel and sequential rollout of application releases, ensuring each passes pre-defined quality gates and automated checks, providing the ability to perform easy rollbacks and web-UI-based monitoring of the progress.(Temporal, Go, Redis/Valkey, Nginx, ArgoCD, Codex, Claude)

Education

• Calculating Mathematics & Cybernetics Faculty, Moscow State University

  Master's degree, Information Technology

  2004 — 2009

Skills

• Cisco Routers
• Vpn
• Vmware
• Cisco Certified
• Freebsd
• San
• Vlan
• Cisco Technologies
• Centos
• Red Hat Linux
• Network Design
• High Availability
• Asterisk
• Mysql
• Cisco Systems Products
• Cisco Nexus
• Active Directory
• Switches
• Cisco Ios
• Windows Server
• Cisco Routing & Switching
• Servers
• Linux
• H3c
• Vmware Esx
• Data Center
• Vmware Vsphere
• Apache
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Cluster
• Bgp
• Nagios
• Dhcp
• Extreme Networks
• Virtualization
• Routers
• Vsphere
• Linux System Administration
• Ospf
• Rhel