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Jun Wang
Cloud Engineer
Jun is a results-driven, forward-thinking technologist with comprehensive experience building mission-critical enterprise systems and transforming legacy systems into cloud-based solutions. He has demonstrated consistent execution excellence via effective leadership and problem-solving. He also draws out concepts, patterns, and practices into workable business solutions. Jun's core competencies include Azure solution architecture, development, delivery, microservices, DevOps, and hybrid clouds.

Ben Mishkin
Cloud Engineer
Ben is a seasoned engineering leader with 20 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, operations, DevOps, and SecOps. He specializes in ML/AI and LLMs and holds certifications in AWS and GCP. He has led teams across various industries, including healthcare, social networks, eCommerce, and video games. With computer science, machine learning, and finance expertise, Ben has HIPAA, PCI, and SOC2 compliance experience. He excels in writing code, buildouts, operations, and migrations.

Sev Kelian
Cloud Engineer
Sev is a strategically focused technologist experienced in cyber and cloud technology management and 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. He's adept at building strong relationships to drive value while maintaining secure infrastructure, cloud, data, and app platforms. Sev also excels at defining and modernizing cloud and cyber strategies, architecture and delivering DevSecOps processes via the automatic acceleration of cloud adoption.

Anton Shuleshov
Cloud Engineer
Anton is an IT expert with 23 years of extensive experience in IT, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and modern cloud, security, and infrastructure technologies. He has a proven track record of leading teams to successfully implement, manage, and optimize cloud-native infrastructure solutions. Anton is experienced in delivering complex automation projects supporting software development lifecycle and utilizing Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins.

Vijaya Sekar
Cloud Engineer
Vijaya is an enterprise cloud architect with 22 years of public cloud design experience, specializing in app modernization, cloud security, networking, data management, and automation. He helps businesses on their digital transformation journeys by moving workloads to the cloud and implementing a DevOps culture using the right tools. Vijaya also evaluates new cloud technologies and strategies to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.

Mohamed Chiheb Ben Jemaa
Cloud Engineer
Mohamed is an engineer with over five years of experience in information technology, specializing in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Having a software development and site reliability engineering background, he is an avid open-source contributor interested in advanced Kubernetes topics. Mohamed has solid knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystem, Google Cloud Platform, and Terraform.

Dmitry Kireev
Cloud Engineer
Dmitry, a principal infrastructure engineer with 17 years of experience, has contributed to exits and IPOs exceeding $140 million. He excels in building scalable infrastructure from inception to acquisition, focusing on crisis intervention, rapid transformation, and optimizing infrastructure costs (achieving reductions of 65-85%).

Peter Joseph
Cloud Engineer
Peter is a principal cloud consultant with extensive experience and a track record of success across both AWS and Microsoft Azure. In a 22-year career to date, Peter spent 13 of those years working almost exclusively with the cloud. Peter led and delivered major projects globally for dozens of customers ranging from Coca-Cola and Morgan Stanley to Origin Energy Australia and Air New Zealand.

Arnaldo Morales
Cloud Engineer
Arnaldo is a cloud solutions architect and senior consultant with 10+ years of experience in IT, telecommunications, and financial services. He specializes in cloud infrastructure, strategic roadmaps, and hybrid architectures. Skilled in Terraform, Azure DevOps, and Agile methodologies, Arnaldo thrives in solving complex challenges while delivering scalable and secure cloud solutions.

Ali Al-Charakh
Cloud Engineer
Ali is an experienced principal engineer and cloud architect with 15+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable, high-performance platforms across regulated industries. Proven leader of cross-functional teams, driving enterprise cloud adoption and DevOps automation at scale. Expert in AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, with a strong focus on resilience, compliance, and aligning technology delivery to business outcomes.

Kostya Plis
Cloud Engineer
Kostya is a DevOps engineer with extensive knowledge of Linux and Windows environments and 15+ years of IT experience. He has hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing cloud (AWS, GCP) and on-premises solutions following industry standards. Kostya's work has reduced the cognitive load on DevOps teams, eliminated bottlenecks, created checks for pull requests in high-load repositories, and achieved 100% IaC for company cloud environments of over 50 AWS services.

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