About
Hi, I'm Mihail Fedorov — most people call me Kolo. I've been doing DevOps and infrastructure for over 25 years, which is long enough to remember when we called it "sysadmin" and nobody had opinions about YAML.
I build and break things across networking, automation, and cloud infrastructure. I run my own autonomous system (AS26954), tinker with IoT devices that probably shouldn't be connected to the internet, and share a home with two cats — a Scottish Fold and a British Shorthair. Bachelor's in CS, certified in various things, ordained minister of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Based in Israel, working as an independent DevOps consultant. Previously led infrastructure at SmartFi, advised on Komodo Platform's notary network, and have been everything from security specialist to CTO along the way. Full CV is available here.
How I got here
Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
This website
This is a personal website. The first version went live in 2002. Twelve rewrites later, not a single line of original code survives — a proper ship of Theseus. So I keep the 88x31 button and the spinning skull to prove it's still the same site.
The web was supposed to be a bunch of f***ing webmasters putting things they care about on pages they own. No algorithms, no feed, no engagement metrics. Somewhere along the way that became a radical idea. It shouldn't be. If you don't have a personal website, you should make one. All you really need is a wish and something to say. The second part is the hardest.
Beyond the terminal
When not breaking other people's infrastructure: microcontrollers, vintage hardware repair, solving puzzles, collectible things, food tourism, and an unexplainable fondness for unicorns.