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About

I am Denis Verbin — a Django developer, Linux sysadmin and DevOps engineer based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Most of my work sits on both sides of the deploy: writing Django and Wagtail applications, and running the Linux hosts, containers and pipelines they live on. In practice that means a lot of Docker, Ansible playbooks, CI/CD, nginx, PostgreSQL and monitoring that has to keep working without anyone watching it.

The tools on this site started as things I needed myself — a quick IP check, a WHOIS lookup that was not covered in advertising, a password generator I could trust. They are small, self-hosted and free to use.

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  • a411a2c2026 — now

    Django developer & DevOps engineer

    Building and operating Django/Wagtail applications end to end: application code, containers, Ansible provisioning, CI/CD and the infrastructure underneath.

  • 7c1e93f2021 — 2026

    Backend developer, Django

    Feature work and long-running platform maintenance on Django services: REST APIs, PostgreSQL schema work, background task pipelines and release automation.

  • 2f8a1c92017 — 2021

    Linux system administrator

    Hosting, networking and virtualisation — Proxmox, nginx, DNS, backups, monitoring, and the gradual move from hand-configured servers to reproducible provisioning.