About

Alexey Petrenko is a software engineering leader with over 26 years of experience in system and cloud software development, quality, release, devops, and information security engineering. He has a broad open-source expertise and has worked on projects ranging from interrupt handlers on assembler to platforms/tools and server farms running corporate-level infrastructure services. Alexey has led teams at Intel, where he made Sun Microsystems open-source Java, and has his code in a majority of Android devices without ever working for Google. He has built a cross-platform hybrid cloud for Linux development with dozens of unique features. He has experience working with engineers, customers, and contractors around the globe and has dealt with public sector regulations in several countries. Currently, Alexey is the Director of Engineering at RingCentral, where he has overhauled Engage Voice build, deployment, and configuration management. He has migrated all the components from various operating systems and java distributions to a standardized Amazon Linux 2 / Amazon Corretto configuration. He has also implemented a fully automated process of updating components with the latest security patches for the product, which was not updated for years before that. In his previous roles at Oracle, Alexey was the Operating Systems & Virtualization Engineering Director, where he introduced static and dynamic security testing into Oracle Linux, UEK, and OracleVM development process, which prevented various security bugs from being released to customers. He has also developed a code signing infrastructure for Oracle Linux, built a cross-platform hybrid cloud for continuous integration of operating systems, kernel, cloud, virtualization, and containerization products, and worked on GRUB2, legacy GRUB, shim, and Dracut development and sustaining for x86, ARM, and SPARC platforms. Alexey has a degree in Computer Science from Saint Petersburg State University and Magnitogorsk State University. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, infra, Java, DevOps, SRE, Software Engineer, test, qa, CI/CD, Android, Integration, and Jenkins. He is a problem solver who improves what needs to be improved and leaves as is what works fine. He also mentors engineers and builds cross-site and cross-country teams from scratch.