Helping a stealth-mode startup to build the cost-efficient cloud infrastructure including the privately hosted version control, CI/CD, task tracker and test/production environments. It’s a project work that comes to an end.

• Building AWS infrastructure using Terraform and some ad hoc automation
• Monitoring with Prometheus-Loki-Grafana stack with a lot of customizations
• Test/production environments in EKS/GKE/k3s-based Kubernetes
• CI/CD using Gitlab and Github features along with the ArgoCD pipelines for the Kubernetes deployments management with the private registry
• Plently automation on building-testing-deploying containers customized for dev’s, test and production deployments

As a leading engineer, I worked alongside another specialist to successfully implement the most up-to-date development and delivery techniques within the company.

• Literally zero “Code Red” incidents with cloud deployments and data for almost 4 years.
• The best possible pipeline for the product delivery including build tests, test environment sandboxing, staging etc. Developers were happy.
• Moving all production apps and components from bare-metal Linux to containers, gaining a great advance in stability, security and the deployment speed.
• Maximum achievable level of automation for every repeating tasks.
• Extensive monitoring with focus on problem prevention rather than reacting to incidents.
• Enchanced security and privacy with careful incident prevention. Automated and manual global secrets rotaion. Applied security scanning to every commit.

Working on improvements of the monitoring system in terms of coverage, visibility, right metrics collection and interpretation

• Extensive monitoring of the AWS security-related parts with proper alerting
• Refining Chef pipelines to achieve faster and slim deployments
• Increased overall usability of the monitoring tools and dashboards
• Gained some memorable achievements with web using Hyena

The «Speaking Mind» was a mobile application startup. It was vocalizing personalized newsfeeds using the most advanced TTS tech at the time being.

• I handled CEO and IT functions, receiving great feedback from current users. Managed iOS and Android app development from the product owner side. However, challenges in marketing and customer development led to an unclear target market, and the project ran out of funding before reaching profitability.

A long way from ‘any-key-support’ to a valued professional. Some noticable achievements below:

• Tourparade (2009-2013): Full-remote office ages before it became a mainstream, including remote workplaces (RDP) and remote telephony (Asterisk). Seamless comms for the company all over the world.
• Tourparade (2012-2013): Leading the new web-site development as a project manager and a product owner. Made this web-site a perfect selling tool which helped increase sales and gain more profit at a great scale.
• Karachaganak Petroleum (~2008): Full-scale BCP/DRP plan for in-house 300 servers and 2000 workplaces as a part of more complex plan for the whole company.