Hi there 👋
I’m Evgeny Rudinsky — Technical Architect at GitLab, Microsoft MVP in Azure Infrastructure as Code, and author of this blog. With 20+ years in IT, I work across cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevSecOps — bridging the Microsoft Azure and GitLab ecosystems. You can also find my certifications and badges on Credly.
Background #
I started my professional career as a Linux administrator in the mid-2000s, doing a lot of work with software PBX (Asterisk was a flagship product and I was actively promoting it and its hardware business across Russia). I’m sure there are still some of my appliances based on Debian 4.0 “etch” with Asterisk 1.4 mounted into a self-made rack closet somewhere here.
But the story goes further back. In 1995 my mom worked at a domestic airline headquartered in UUS. The airport received several Intel 80486 machines with 14-inch monitors — and that’s where I got kidnapped by Prince of Persia 2. A year later I was working on a Pentium machine, knew how to detach a WD 2GB HDD for onsite software exchange — which I accidentally dropped. That was a few days old super-expensive part.
Then BBS popped up and I was very much into it — arranged one called “Commandos Station BBS”, wildly customised by hardcoding everything possible into Maximus with my own ASCII welcome screen. Joined FIDO network too, but was too young among the aged community members and didn’t drink beers 🍻
At some point I borrowed books on Pascal and Java and opened up a hu-u-u-uge world of computer science. Moving through various edges and sharp corners, I found myself in solution architecture — helping teams build faster, better, and safer systems 🦊
Workshops and conferences #
I am Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2019 and I love to share knowledge, explain things in approachable way!
Sharing is caring! There are some talks and workshops that I’ve done previously …
- Azure Immersion Workshop (AIW): Cloud Native Apps
Workshop was conducted on behalf of Microsoft’s partner Nordcloud, an IBM Company
- Deploy a full stack application to Azure using Bicep templates 💪
Workshop was conducted together with xtechnology.dev.
- Azure Bicep Workshop // please use | fork | watch | contribute | etc
- Bicep Fundamentals // part 1
- Deploy a full stack application to Azure using Bicep templates // part 2
Open Source Software Projects #
Below lists a few of the open source projects I have been involved in. These span across several areas, mainly were kicked off over a weekend while learning something new for a purpose of personal enablement.
- Azure Bicep Workshop
- An utility to generate usage report on Azure DevOps
- An utility to solve Hanoi Tower problem of any size
- Operations cheat sheets
- Congregate
- Evaluate
Microsoft MVP #
I’ve been a Microsoft MVP in Azure Infrastructure as Code since 2024. I contribute to Azure Bicep, Azure Verified Modules, and IaC tooling — working directly with Microsoft’s product teams. Read more about this journey in my MVP reflection post.
