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Mathias Paulenko

Software Engineer & Founder of StackPractices

Mathias Paulenko

Mathias Paulenko

Software Engineer

Software engineer with 12+ years of experience building production systems across Python, JavaScript, React, and DevOps. I have contributed to enterprise projects spanning CI/CD pipelines, API design, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development.

StackPractices is my personal project, born from a simple belief: great documentation should be copy-paste ready. Every recipe, pattern, and guide on this site is designed to save you time and help you ship faster.

Published Works (1032)

intermediate

Technical Specification Template

A template for writing technical specification documents for software projects.

intermediate

Auto-Scaling Policy Template

A template for documenting scale-up and scale-down rules for cloud infrastructure.

intermediate

Backup & Restore Verification Template

A template for documenting database and file backup verification procedures.

beginner

Bug Triage Template

A template for classifying and routing bug reports by severity and impact.

intermediate

Change Management Template

A template for documenting CAB reviews and rollback criteria for production changes.

intermediate

Cloud Cost Allocation Template

A template for tracking team and environment cloud cost allocation.

advanced

Cross-Region Failover Test Template

A template for documenting multi-region disaster recovery test procedures.

beginner

Dependency Upgrade Runbook

A step-by-step runbook for upgrading project dependencies safely.

beginner

Deployment Checklist Template

A pre-release verification checklist for safe production deployments.

beginner

Downtime Communication Template

A template for internal and external outage messaging during service downtime.

beginner

Escalation Policy Template

A template for defining incident severity levels and on-call escalation paths.

intermediate

Infrastructure as Code Review Template

A template for reviewing Terraform and CloudFormation infrastructure code.

intermediate

Network Security Template

A template for documenting VPC, firewall, and DNS security rules inventory.

intermediate

On-Call Runbook Template

A template documenting common alerts and step-by-step response procedures for on-call engineers.

intermediate

Patch Management Template

A template for scheduling, testing, and deploying security patches across environments.

intermediate

Performance Regression Template

A template for comparing benchmarks and creating action plans when performance degrades.

beginner

Rollout Communication Template

A template for release notes and stakeholder updates during capability rollouts.

intermediate

Service Level Objective Template

A template for defining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for reliable service management.

beginner

SSL Certificate Renewal Template

A template for tracking SSL certificate expiration and renewal workflows.

beginner

Weekly Ops Review Template

A template for summarizing incidents, costs, performance, and action items in weekly operations reviews.

intermediate

API Security Review Template

A checklist template for reviewing API authentication, rate limiting, and OWASP compliance.

beginner

Data Classification Template

A template for classifying data as public, internal, confidential, or restricted with handling rules.

intermediate

Incident Response Playbook Template

A step-by-step playbook template for handling security incidents.

intermediate

Penetration Test Remediation Template

A template for tracking security findings, assigning remediation owners, and validating fixes after penetration tests.