Netcracker/pgskipper-operator
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
9 Months active
Languages Used
goyamlGoYAMLpythonrobotframeworkDockerfileMarkdown
Technical Skills
DevOpsGoKubernetesSecurityDatabase ManagementGrafana
Mikhail Chekalov
PROFILE
Mikhail Chekalov
Mikhail Chekalov developed and enhanced the Netcracker/pgskipper-operator over nine months, focusing on secure, reliable, and observable PostgreSQL operations in Kubernetes environments. He implemented TLS support, backup monitoring, and user management features, integrating technologies like Go, Helm, and Prometheus to improve deployment security and database observability. His work included developing custom metrics for Grafana dashboards, refining health probes, and enabling internal TLS for CI and test workflows. Mikhail also addressed deployment edge cases and stabilized CI/CD pipelines through linting and configuration updates, demonstrating depth in backend development, database management, and DevOps practices while consistently reducing operational risk and support overhead.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
83%Features
Repository Contributions
13Total
Bugs
2
Commits
13
Features
10
Lines of code
10,899
Activity Months9
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4 peopleShared Repositories
4
Work History
January 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2026Concise monthly summary for 2026-01 focusing on feature delivery and bug fixes in Netcracker/pgskipper-operator. Delivered user management and password security enhancements, improved error logging and CRUD query relevance, and ensured secure password updates. These changes enhance security, reliability, and operational visibility, reducing support overhead and improving compliance with password handling standards.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2026Concise monthly summary for 2026-01 focusing on feature delivery and bug fixes in Netcracker/pgskipper-operator. Delivered user management and password security enhancements, improved error logging and CRUD query relevance, and ensured secure password updates. These changes enhance security, reliability, and operational visibility, reducing support overhead and improving compliance with password handling standards.
January 2026
December 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025: Stabilized development workflows and delivered credential verification capability for PostgreSQL in netcracker/pgskipper-operator. Key deliverables include credcheck extension integration (Dockerfile, YAML config) for credential validation, and code quality/CI-CD stabilization (golangci-lint fixes, editorconfig updates, deprecated function cleanup, lint config tuning, and CI/CD workflow improvements). These changes reduce production risk, accelerate safe deployments, and improve maintainability and security.
December 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025: Stabilized development workflows and delivered credential verification capability for PostgreSQL in netcracker/pgskipper-operator. Key deliverables include credcheck extension integration (Dockerfile, YAML config) for credential validation, and code quality/CI-CD stabilization (golangci-lint fixes, editorconfig updates, deprecated function cleanup, lint config tuning, and CI/CD workflow improvements). These changes reduce production risk, accelerate safe deployments, and improve maintainability and security.
October 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025: Delivered PgBackRest Backups Monitoring Exporter in Netcracker/pgskipper-operator. Introduces configurable, Helm-chart deployable backup monitoring to collect detailed backup operation metrics, enhancing observability, reliability, and proactive issue detection. No major bugs reported; existing features remained stable. This work strengthens data protection visibility and supports faster MTTR.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025: Delivered PgBackRest Backups Monitoring Exporter in Netcracker/pgskipper-operator. Introduces configurable, Helm-chart deployable backup monitoring to collect detailed backup operation metrics, enhancing observability, reliability, and proactive issue detection. No major bugs reported; existing features remained stable. This work strengthens data protection visibility and supports faster MTTR.
October 2025
September 2025
1 Commits
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for Netcracker/pgskipper-operator focusing on reliability hardening and bug fixes in Patroni deployment. Implemented nil-safe handling for podAnnotations and configMapAnnotations to ensure they are applied even when nil, reducing deployment failures and improving cluster stability.
September 2025
1 Commits
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for Netcracker/pgskipper-operator focusing on reliability hardening and bug fixes in Patroni deployment. Implemented nil-safe handling for podAnnotations and configMapAnnotations to ensure they are applied even when nil, reducing deployment failures and improving cluster stability.
June 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 — Netcracker/pgskipper-operator: Strengthened the testing infrastructure by enabling INTERNAL_TLS_ENABLED for core tests. The change updates deployment templates and test setup to configure internal TLS settings, improving TLS coverage and test reliability across CI and local development. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: reduced TLS-related risk in releases, smoother TLS feature validation, and clearer test configuration. Technologies/skills demonstrated: TLS configuration, environment-driven test setups, deployment templating, test infrastructure modernization, and Git-based change management.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 — Netcracker/pgskipper-operator: Strengthened the testing infrastructure by enabling INTERNAL_TLS_ENABLED for core tests. The change updates deployment templates and test setup to configure internal TLS settings, improving TLS coverage and test reliability across CI and local development. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: reduced TLS-related risk in releases, smoother TLS feature validation, and clearer test configuration. Technologies/skills demonstrated: TLS configuration, environment-driven test setups, deployment templating, test infrastructure modernization, and Git-based change management.
June 2025
May 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for Netcracker/pgskipper-operator: Delivered reliability enhancements to Patroni-based deployments and introduced internal TLS for dbaas tests. Reworked health probes lifecycle and deployment strategy to improve monitoring and reduce downtime, and wired in an internal TLS workflow to enable HTTPS for test scenarios without impacting production. These changes are supported by targeted commits, driving higher uptime, safer test environments, and easier troubleshooting.
May 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for Netcracker/pgskipper-operator: Delivered reliability enhancements to Patroni-based deployments and introduced internal TLS for dbaas tests. Reworked health probes lifecycle and deployment strategy to improve monitoring and reduce downtime, and wired in an internal TLS workflow to enable HTTPS for test scenarios without impacting production. These changes are supported by targeted commits, driving higher uptime, safer test environments, and easier troubleshooting.
April 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025: Delivered two key monitoring enhancements for Netcracker/pgskipper-operator, strengthening observability, incident response, and capacity planning. Key features delivered include PostgreSQL Wait Events Monitoring and Sequence Usage Monitoring. No major bugs documented for this period. Overall impact: improved visibility into critical database wait events and sequence usage, enabling proactive alerts, faster MTTR, and data-driven capacity planning. Technologies demonstrated: Prometheus metrics and alert rules, SQL-based metrics, exporter instrumentation, and Grafana dashboards. Related commits: 9d502fd8406099285d458166290730670f82e5d9; 352fa10cda832b0779754aa5741b75ab458d04e4.
2 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025: Delivered two key monitoring enhancements for Netcracker/pgskipper-operator, strengthening observability, incident response, and capacity planning. Key features delivered include PostgreSQL Wait Events Monitoring and Sequence Usage Monitoring. No major bugs documented for this period. Overall impact: improved visibility into critical database wait events and sequence usage, enabling proactive alerts, faster MTTR, and data-driven capacity planning. Technologies demonstrated: Prometheus metrics and alert rules, SQL-based metrics, exporter instrumentation, and Grafana dashboards. Related commits: 9d502fd8406099285d458166290730670f82e5d9; 352fa10cda832b0779754aa5741b75ab458d04e4.
April 2025
February 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — Netcracker/pgskipper-operator: Delivered a new is_db_alive metric for the Azure Grafana dashboard to monitor database availability for operators and stakeholders. The metric can be broadly applied by clearing the instance selection. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: improved observability, proactive monitoring, and faster issue triage. Skills demonstrated: Azure Grafana integration, metrics instrumentation, observability best practices, and Git-based traceability for the commit f585f2bfed76863cea8b418e1b430635a04e41fb.
February 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — Netcracker/pgskipper-operator: Delivered a new is_db_alive metric for the Azure Grafana dashboard to monitor database availability for operators and stakeholders. The metric can be broadly applied by clearing the instance selection. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: improved observability, proactive monitoring, and faster issue triage. Skills demonstrated: Azure Grafana integration, metrics instrumentation, observability best practices, and Git-based traceability for the commit f585f2bfed76863cea8b418e1b430635a04e41fb.
January 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary focusing on Netcracker/pgskipper-operator. Delivered TLS support for the Postgres Operator, enabling secure TLS communication by mounting TLS certificates and configuring the operator to listen on a TLS-enabled port when TLS is active. This work strengthens security for operator deployments and reduces operational risk in production environments.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary focusing on Netcracker/pgskipper-operator. Delivered TLS support for the Postgres Operator, enabling secure TLS communication by mounting TLS certificates and configuring the operator to listen on a TLS-enabled port when TLS is active. This work strengthens security for operator deployments and reduces operational risk in production environments.
January 2025
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Quality Metrics
Correctness82.4%
Maintainability80.0%
Architecture77.8%
Performance69.2%
AI Usage21.6%
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Programming Languages
DockerfileGoMarkdownPythonYAMLgopythonrobotframeworkyaml
Technical Skills
Backup and RecoveryCI/CDCloud NativeContainerizationDatabase ManagementDatabase MonitoringDevOpsGoGo DevelopmentGrafanaHelmHelm ChartsKubernetesLintingMonitoring
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