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New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since November 21, 2019
Bio
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%).
Portfolio
KIRR LLC
Crisis Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Networking...
MAP Digital, Inc.
DevOps, AWS DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Docker...
Shift Lab
Serverless, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Cognito...
Experience
- Bash - 15 years
- Linux - 14 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 13 years
- DevOps - 10 years
- Terraform - 8 years
- Docker - 6 years
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) - 5 years
- Amazon EKS - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Terraform, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Serverless, Amazon EKS, CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud Engineering, Cost Cutting (Cost-out), Crisis Management
The most amazing...
...achievement is building an IoT platform from inception to $87.8 million acquisition by Fortune Brands/Moen (NYSE: FBIN) with 99.999% uptime.
Work Experience
Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Founder
2025 - PRESENT
KIRR LLC
- Founded a US-based consultancy providing principal infrastructure services to Series A/B startups with 10-50 employees.
- Recently engaged to resolve a 2-year production crisis within 48 hours, resulting in a 73% reduction in AWS costs, saving $132,000 annually.
- Focused on crisis intervention, cost optimization, and infrastructure scaling to support rapid growth.
- Provided hands-on principal engineering with strategic oversight, facilitating knowledge transfer to client teams.
- Operated a remote-first engagement model with a NYC base, while also providing on-site client support.
Technologies: Crisis Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Networking, Load Testing, Infrastructure Testing, Ubuntu, Terragrunt, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2023 - PRESENT
MAP Digital, Inc.
- Mitigated a critical 2-year production issue in 48 hours for the enterprise event platform. Resolved it in two months.
- Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 73%, from $15,000 to $4,000 monthly, saving $132,000 annually.
- Achieved 99.99% uptime for the platform supporting 70,000-attendee conferences for major financial institutions.
- Diagnosed and fixed complex memory leak through systematic profiling and analysis.
- Recovered tens of thousands in SLA credits by implementing venue-site monitoring that proved telecom vendor fault (packet loss, connection drops) during critical events.
- Implemented comprehensive observability, enabling 10x team productivity and vendor accountability.
Technologies: DevOps, AWS DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, AWS NAT Gateway, Terraform, New Relic, Datadog, Node.js, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Git, Redmine, Jira, Confluence, Networking, Load Testing, Ubuntu, SOC 2, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2022 - PRESENT
Shift Lab
- Built serverless infrastructure from zero, enabling a major transportation company's digital transformation.
- Empowered engineers to build a scalable system supporting thousands of transactions daily at a fraction of traditional cost.
- Integrated legacy IBM DB2 with modern cloud architecture, preserving business continuity.
- Achieved 50+ daily deployments from zero baseline through self-service infrastructure (2000+ to date).
- Reduced infrastructure costs by 50% through RDS optimization and serverless architecture.
- Delivered a sustainable platform, operational for 3+ years.
Technologies: Serverless, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Cognito, CI/CD Pipelines, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, JavaScript, Slack API, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Disaster Recovery Consulting, Networking, Load Testing, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Founder
2015 - PRESENT
HazelOps
- Served as principal infrastructure engineer to high-growth companies through strategic consulting engagements.
- Enabled over $140 million in client exits and acquisitions through repeatable infrastructure patterns and hands-on implementation.
- Published open source Terraform modules with 500,000+ combined downloads on Terraform Registry.
- Built Estonian operations to access senior European engineering talent, enabling 24/7 infrastructure coverage.
- Established an engagement model focused on long-term partnerships lasting 2-3 years and targeted crisis interventions ranging from 1-3 months.
- Achieved 65-85% cost reductions while improving reliability to 99.99%+ across 50+ client engagements.
Technologies: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS DevOps, GNU Make, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Grafana, HAProxy, Python, WordPress, PHP, Java, Serverless, ECS, Docker Swarm, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, NGINX, DevOps, SSL Certificates, Digital Certificates, Traefik, JVM, Flask, Linux, Bash, SQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Amazon EKS, AWS NAT Gateway, Datadog, Software as a Service (SaaS), Docker Compose, Agile, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Agile Software Development, Jira, Confluence, SSL, Containerization, TypeScript, Containers, Deployment, Helm, Azure, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Cloud, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Architecture, APIs, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon EC2, VPN, Node.js, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Container Orchestration, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Aurora, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CodeBuild, GitHub, Git, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile DevOps, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon API, Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Enterprise Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Django, RabbitMQ, Celery, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, ChatGPT, Machine Learning, Serverless Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Redis Cache, Load Balancers, Heroku, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), CORS, Cloud Migration, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Go, Startups, System Administration, GitHub Actions, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS Amplify, Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Google Compute Engine (GCE), Cloud Security, Windows PowerShell, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, JavaScript, Slack API, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Disaster Recovery Consulting, Argo CD, TensorFlow, Time Series Data, Multitenancy, AWS IoT, MQTT, Networking, Auth0, Load Testing, Infrastructure Testing, Ubuntu, REST
Infrastructure Performance Consultant
2025 - 2025
ADP, Inc.
- Brought in to diagnose and resolve critical performance crisis in a complex post-acquisition environment.
- Untangled overwhelming technical complexity to identify root causes of application slowness.
- Implemented distributed tracing and monitoring after a 6-month internal deadlock, providing critical visibility.
- Partnered with DBA to identify database bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
- Implemented APM monitoring for workers using OpenTracing after carefully evaluating options plausible within the corporate environment.
- Broke through organizational paralysis to deliver actionable performance insights.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Amazon Aurora, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Sharding, DevOps, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2025 - 2025
Safer Kid, Inc
- Redesigned legacy infrastructure from three unmanaged EC2 instances to modern EKS with Helm charts.
- Built secure, isolated, and reliable infrastructure aligned with business security requirements.
- Implemented complete infrastructure as code with Terraform, enabling reproducible deployments.
- Designed CI/CD-ready pipeline architecture (not implemented due to time constraints).
- Delivered AWS Well-Architected Framework compliance with CloudTrail and Config monitoring.
- Completed critical transformation over the holiday period, ahead of schedule.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon RDS, DevOps, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2024 - 2024
Sema Technologies, Inc
- Redirected misguided GitHub Action request to the proper solution: production-ready infrastructure they actually needed.
- Architected and built a complete AWS infrastructure from zero to production in four weeks.
- Designed containerized ECS architecture with VPC, EFS, and SQS for an AI code scanning platform.
- Prevented a 2-3 month wrong path and delivered the right solution in 1 month.
Technologies: DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines, Startups, System Administration, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS Amplify, Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2023 - 2023
SimplyWise, Inc.
- Addressed a critical crisis intervention involving receipt upload failures that blocked core business functions without an apparent solution in sight.
- Diagnosed a root cause previously missed by others, involving Django header parsing, ALB ingress limitations, and a mobile timeout cascade.
- Architected a solution by switching from ALB to NGINX ingress for more granular header control, effectively preventing timeouts.
- Resolved an elusive user-facing error after weeks of unsuccessful debugging attempts by others.
Technologies: Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Django, Datadog, Scaling, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Migration, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Startups, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2022 - 2023
SofaBet Co.
- Led the betting platform to GLI (Gaming Laboratories International) certification as an external infrastructure consultant.
- Implemented critical code signing infrastructure, a mandatory prerequisite for GLI certification. This intervention was essential to enable certification and prevent blockage of market entry.
- Architected a secure CI/CD pipeline with code signing integrated at every deployment stage.
- Established compliance-ready infrastructure meeting strict gaming industry regulatory requirements.
- Unblocked $10+ million revenue opportunity by enabling regulatory certification.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Serverless, Container Orchestration, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Aurora, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, GitHub, Git, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile DevOps, Terraform, Amazon RDS, Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Continuous Delivery (CD), CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Celery, ECS, Serverless Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Redis Cache, Load Balancers, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), CORS, Cloud Migration, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Startups, System Administration, GitHub Actions, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS Amplify, Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2021 - 2022
Chicks Gold Inc.
- Executed crisis intervention by resolving frequent production downtimes that were negatively impacting revenue.
- Proposed and architected a complete infrastructure redesign for the EKS/Rancher cluster.
- Eliminated downtime through a zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline on Azure DevOps.
- Transformed an unreliable platform into a stable, rapid-delivery system supporting business growth.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, .NET, Rancher, Azure DevOps, Cloudflare, VPN, Container Orchestration, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Aurora, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, GitHub, Git, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile DevOps, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Amazon RDS, Amazon API, Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Continuous Delivery (CD), CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Celery, ECS, Serverless Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Redis Cache, Load Balancers, Heroku, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), CORS, Cloud Migration, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Startups, System Administration, GitHub Actions, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2021 - 2022
ONFO, LLC
- Built a complete AWS infrastructure from scratch for a blockchain fintech startup.
- Accelerated deployment velocity to 100+ deployments per day with zero downtime.
- Architected immutable infrastructure for private Stellar blockchain nodes - the core product offering.
- Containerized legacy .NET monoliths to ECS, enabling microservices transformation.
- Enabled startup to scale from prototype to production-ready financial platform.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Stellar SDK, .NET, Serverless, Docker, Docker Compose, Container Orchestration, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, TypeScript, Amazon DynamoDB, GitHub, Git, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile DevOps, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Amazon RDS, Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Continuous Delivery (CD), CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, ECS, Serverless Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Redis Cache, Load Balancers, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), CORS, Cloud Migration, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Startups, System Administration, GitHub Actions, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2020 - 2021
Wizard Inc
- Brought in after previous consultants failed to scale AI/GPU infrastructure for production workloads.
- Architected multi-account AWS infrastructure handling state-of-the-art detection algorithms on GPU nodes.
- Containerized complex Python/CUDA machine learning pipelines to ECS, achieving scalability the previous team could not attain.
- Designed auto-scaling GPU clusters, reducing compute costs by 60% while improving inference speed by 3x.
- Enabled AI product launch after months of failed scaling attempts.
Technologies: Terraform, ECS, Docker, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2020 - 2021
Tatango, Inc.
- Modernized a 14-year-old platform handling $600+ million in nonprofit fundraising to handle 10x volume.
- Migrated legacy Rails monolith to containerized ECS without disrupting active fundraising campaigns.
- Enabled deployment during peak campaigns (previously forbidden) through zero-downtime CI/CD.
- Designed a fault-tolerant architecture to prevent campaign failures that could cost nonprofits millions.
- Enhanced platform capabilities to handle surges during disaster relief campaigns without requiring manual intervention.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), SQL, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS DevOps, Redshift, Datadog, ECS, Serverless, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Terraform, VPN, Container Orchestration, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, GitHub, Git, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile DevOps, Amazon RDS, Amazon API, Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Enterprise Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization, Serverless Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Redis Cache, Load Balancers, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), CORS, Cloud Migration, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Startups, System Administration, GitHub Actions, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Redshift, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2019 - 2020
Patron Technology, Inc.
- Built a complete AWS infrastructure from the ground up for an event technology startup.
- Architected scalable ECS-based platform supporting rapid product iteration.
- Established CI/CD foundation with zero-downtime deployments and 100+ daily deployment capacity.
Technologies: Amazon EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Elasticsearch, Terraform, Ansible, Apache Airflow, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Principal Infrastructure Engineer
2016 - 2019
Moen
- Built IoT infrastructure from scratch, enabling $87.8 million acquisition by Fortune Brands/Moen (NYSE: FBIN).
- Achieved 99.999% uptime for home water damage prevention system protecting billions in property value.
- Architected a platform with 1+ million device capacity while reducing costs by 70% compared to AWS IoT.
- Resolved critical MQTT data storms preventing insurance partnership disruption.
- Designed a zero-downtime Kafka architecture enabling continuous deployment.
- Delivered Fortune 500-grade infrastructure meeting Moen's acquisition requirements.
Technologies: AWS DevOps, GNU Make, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Linux, CircleCI, Docker, TICK Stack, ELK (Elastic Stack), GitLab, Apache Kafka, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, DevOps, SSL Certificates, Digital Certificates, Grafana, JVM, InfluxDB, Bash, SQL, Internet of Things (IoT), Amazon RDS, AWS NAT Gateway, Datadog, Software as a Service (SaaS), Docker Compose, Agile, Redis, Agile Software Development, Jira, Confluence, SSL, Containerization, Containers, Deployment, Cloud, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Architecture, APIs, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon EC2, VPN, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Lambda, TypeScript, Amazon DynamoDB, GitHub, Git, GitLab CI/CD, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile DevOps, Amazon API, Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Enterprise Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices, Microservices Architecture, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Network Security, Redis Cache, Load Balancers, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Migration, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Startups, System Administration, GitHub Actions, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Time Series, Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS Amplify, Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Slack API, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Control, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, MQTT, Time Series Data, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
DevOps Architect
2016 - 2017
Delphix
- Spearheaded an automated bare metal provisioning system, reducing deployment time from days to hours per host.
- Designed a hybrid cloud testing infrastructure supporting core product validation across AWS and on-premise.
- Built Foreman-based provisioning, replacing manual processes and saving hundreds of engineering hours annually.
- Implemented ELK stack for centralized logging across hybrid infrastructure.
- Developed nmap-based automated inventory system for infrastructure discovery and management.
Technologies: AWS DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, AWS CloudFormation, Foreman, Ansible, ELK (Elastic Stack), Jenkins, Terraform, DevOps, SSL Certificates, Digital Certificates, Grafana, Telegraf, JVM, Linux, Bash, SQL, Amazon RDS, AWS NAT Gateway, New Relic, Datadog, Software as a Service (SaaS), Docker Compose, Travis CI, Elasticsearch, Agile, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Agile Software Development, Jira, Confluence, SSL, On-premise, Containerization, Containers, Deployment, Cloud, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Architecture, APIs, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon EC2, VPN, Amazon CloudWatch, GitHub, Git, GitLab CI/CD, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile DevOps, Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Enterprise Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), Windows, RabbitMQ, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Network Security, Redis Cache, Load Balancers, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Startups, System Administration, GitHub Actions, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, Windows PowerShell, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Splunk, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
DevOps Architect
2013 - 2016
Intuit
- Managed hybrid infrastructure with 300+ nodes across AWS, VMware, and bare metal.
- Created Wimaging solution for Windows bare metal provisioning, accelerating datacenter deployments.
- Achieved 90% infrastructure automation using Puppet, reducing manual operations significantly.
- Led post-acquisition infrastructure integration project, ensuring business continuity.
- Pioneered open-source adoption in the Windows environment (Chocolatey, Foreman, Wimaging).
Technologies: AWS DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Foreman, Git, TeamCity, ELK (Elastic Stack), Puppet, DevOps, SSL Certificates, Digital Certificates, Grafana, Telegraf, JVM, Linux, Bash, Amazon RDS, New Relic, Software as a Service (SaaS), Docker Compose, Travis CI, Elasticsearch, Agile, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Agile Software Development, Jira, Confluence, SSL, On-premise, Containerization, Containers, Deployment, Cloud, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Architecture, APIs, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon EC2, VPN, Amazon CloudWatch, GitHub, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile DevOps, AWS CloudFormation, Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Enterprise Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), Windows, RabbitMQ, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Network Security, Redis Cache, Scaling, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Startups, System Administration, GitHub Actions, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, Windows PowerShell, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Readiness, Splunk, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
DevOps Engineer
2011 - 2013
Docstoc
- Supported infrastructure through $50 million acquisition by Intuit with 99.9% uptime across 180+ servers.
- Spearheaded Puppet implementation from scratch, enabling infrastructure-as-code for a heterogeneous environment.
- Built a Logstash observability platform, significantly reducing downtime and contributing to acquisition readiness.
- Implemented one-click deployment system: 5-minute full-farm deployments with zero downtime.
- Automated backup systems and monitoring, preventing $100,000+ monthly revenue loss from potential outages.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS DevOps, Nagios, Python, MongoDB, MySQL, LB, Juniper, DevOps, SSL Certificates, Digital Certificates, Grafana, Telegraf, JVM, Linux, Bash, Amazon RDS, New Relic, Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Docker Compose, Travis CI, Elasticsearch, Agile, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Agile Software Development, Jira, SSL, On-premise, Containerization, Containers, Deployment, Cloud, AWS Cloud Architecture, APIs, Amazon EC2, VPN, Amazon CloudWatch, GitHub, Git, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile DevOps, AWS CloudFormation, Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Continuous Delivery (CD), CI/CD Pipelines, Windows, RabbitMQ, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Network Security, Load Balancers, Scaling, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), System Administration, GitHub Actions, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Security, Windows PowerShell, DevOps Engineer, Networks, AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Reliability, Operational Readiness, API Observability, Splunk, Networking, Ubuntu, REST
Experience
Atun: Secure Tag-based Tunnelling
https://atun.ioAtun is a tiny CLI tool that works based on remote configuration. It uses tags to define hosts and ports forwarding endpoints, and the atun.io/ schema namespace is used to easily configure endpoints.
This tool allows you to connect to private resources (RDS, Redis, etc) via routers.
In order for the tool to work, your EC2 host must employ the correct tag schema. At the moment, it has two types of tags: Atun Version and Atun Host.
Version tag name = atun.io/version
Version tag value =
Env tag name = atun.io/env
Env tag value =
Host tag name = atun.io/host/
Host tag value = {"local":"","proto":"","remote":}
This tool allows you to connect to private resources (RDS, Redis, etc) via routers.
In order for the tool to work, your EC2 host must employ the correct tag schema. At the moment, it has two types of tags: Atun Version and Atun Host.
Version tag name = atun.io/version
Version tag value =
Env tag name = atun.io/env
Env tag value =
Host tag name = atun.io/host/
Host tag value = {"local":"","proto":"","remote":}
IZE Infrastructure Tool
https://github.com/hazelops/izeThis tool is designed as a simple wrapper around popular tools so that they can be easily integrated into one infra: Terraform, ECS deployment, Serverless, and others.
It combines infra, build, and deploy workflows in one and is too simple to be considered sophisticated. So let's not do it but rather embrace the simplicity and minimalism.
It combines infra, build, and deploy workflows in one and is too simple to be considered sophisticated. So let's not do it but rather embrace the simplicity and minimalism.
ECS App Terraform Module
https://github.com/hazelops/terraform-aws-ecs-appThis Terraform module creates and manages Amazon ECS applications in a clean, abstract way. The module is actively maintained and covered by multiple end-to-end tests to prevent regressions.
Features:
• Deploy Worker application: No Application Load Balancer (ALB) is required.
• Deploy web application: Includes ALB, AWS Certificate Manager, and Route 53 integration.
• ECR repo Management.
• Naming convention.
• Deployment: Supports deployment via Terraform and external tools like ecs-deploy or ize.
• Datadog integration.
• Autoscaling: Supports both scheduled and trigger-based autoscaling.
• Supports EC2 or Fargate.
• Supports Elastic IP assignment.
• Resource configuration: Configurable CPU and memory resources.
• Manages Elastic File System mounts and shares.
• Supports GPU-based ECS instances.
• Multiple ECS network modes.
• Root block device configuration.
• Automatic Nginx Proxy.
• Firelens/Datadog log driver.
• ECS Exec (console into the container).
• Supports temporary file storage configuration.
Features:
• Deploy Worker application: No Application Load Balancer (ALB) is required.
• Deploy web application: Includes ALB, AWS Certificate Manager, and Route 53 integration.
• ECR repo Management.
• Naming convention.
• Deployment: Supports deployment via Terraform and external tools like ecs-deploy or ize.
• Datadog integration.
• Autoscaling: Supports both scheduled and trigger-based autoscaling.
• Supports EC2 or Fargate.
• Supports Elastic IP assignment.
• Resource configuration: Configurable CPU and memory resources.
• Manages Elastic File System mounts and shares.
• Supports GPU-based ECS instances.
• Multiple ECS network modes.
• Root block device configuration.
• Automatic Nginx Proxy.
• Firelens/Datadog log driver.
• ECS Exec (console into the container).
• Supports temporary file storage configuration.
Windows Imaging Toolkit
https://github.com/AutomationD/wimagingWImaging is a set of scripts to prepare WIM images and templates for Foreman to provision Windows hosts. Most of the time, official Microsoft deployment tools are used—mostly dism.exe.
All relevant configuration files like unattend.xml are rendered by Foreman and downloaded at build time.
All relevant configuration files like unattend.xml are rendered by Foreman and downloaded at build time.
Education
2006 - 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Business Communication (English)
Tula State University - Tula, Russia
2004 - 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
Tula State University - Tula, Russia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
AWS Amplify, Amazon API, Node.js, Slack API, TensorFlow, Terragrunt
Tools
Git, GNU Make, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, ELK (Elastic Stack), GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Docker Compose, Grafana, Telegraf, CircleCI, Travis CI, Traefik, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), GitHub, VPN, AWS Fargate, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Deployment, Cron, Observability Tools, MQTT, Docker Swarm, NGINX, Puppet, Jenkins, Amazon EKS, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), RabbitMQ, Celery, TeamCity, Nagios, Makefile, AWS CodeDeploy, Jira, Helm, Confluence, Splunk, Stellar SDK, AWS CodeBuild, ChatGPT, Apache Airflow, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Parameter Store, Amazon Cognito, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Google Compute Engine (GCE), AWS Systems Manager, Redmine, Auth0
Languages
Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Markdown, Go, JavaScript, SQL, TypeScript
Paradigms
Agile, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Serverless Architecture, API Observability, REST, Azure DevOps, Load Testing, Automation, Agile Software Development, Testing
Platforms
Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, Windows, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Ubuntu, Apache Kafka, JVM, Heroku, DigitalOcean, Azure, WordPress, New Relic, Windows Server, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Blockchain, Rancher, AWS ALB, AWS IoT
Storage
Datadog, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Redis, On-premise, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis Cache, Elasticsearch, MySQL/MariaDB, Databases, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Amazon EFS, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Frameworks
Flask, Django, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Windows PowerShell, .NET, Serverless Framework
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Other
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Networking, GitHub Actions, AWS DevOps, SSL Certificates, Digital Certificates, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SSL, Cloud, Containerization, AWS Cloud Architecture, Containers, Deployment, Cloud Architecture, Container Orchestration, Agile DevOps, Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Network Security, Load Balancers, Scaling, Cloud Migration, Startups, System Administration, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Engineering, Cloud Security, DevOps Engineer, Networks, Reliability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Excellence, Operational Readiness, Infrastructure Testing, Internet of Things (IoT), AWS NAT Gateway, APIs, Enterprise Architecture, CORS, Operational Control, Disaster Recovery Consulting, Argo CD, Time Series Data, SOC 2, TICK Stack, Transport Layer Security (TLS), Foreman, Juniper, LB, ECS, Serverless, HAProxy, Communication, English, Business, Economics, Software Development, Business Planning, Cloudflare, Hospitality, Network Monitoring, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Autoscaling, Amazon Route 53, SSH, Time Series, Amazon Redshift, Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Sharding, Multitenancy, Cost Cutting (Cost-out), Crisis Management
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