I am a former Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (2014-2022, Azure and Datacenter Management; kicked for my nationality), VMware vExpert (2017-2019) and Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer working for a leading international IT and development company (US-based). I was also a leader of the Microsoft TechNet Community in the past and awarded multiple times as the most valuable contributor (virtualization). In 2018, I became the author of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook that has been distributed worldwide by Amazon and Packt Publishing. Passionate about clouds, DevOps, automation and containers. Also, I have extensive experience with virtualizaion, clustering and hardware solutions. I share my thoughs and experience at rlevchenko.com.