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Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Miami Beach, FL, United States
Toptal member since June 26, 2020
Bio
Seasoned cloud architect and engineer with 13+ years of experience in infrastructure design, cloud-native development, and automation. He specializes in multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), on-prem, and DevOps/SRE practices across monolithic, microservices, and AI-driven architectures. Eugene has led platform modernization, AI application development, and production-grade deployments for mission-critical systems. He brings a strong passion for innovation, scalability, and delivering real-world impact.
Portfolio
Pfizer - Smart Factory
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Docker, Python, Amazon SageMaker...
Suki AI
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), APIs, Node.js...
Evisort
Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Git, GitLab...
Experience
- Bash Script - 10 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- Python - 5 years
- Docker - 5 years
- Amazon EKS - 5 years
- Azure - 4 years
- Terraform - 4 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, MySQL, Python, Kubernetes, Azure, Microservices, CI/CD Pipelines, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
The most amazing...
...thing I’ve done is lead and contribute to complex cloud and app migrations across monolithic and microservice architectures with tailored strategies.
Work Experience
Cloud Architect | AI Application Developer
2024 - PRESENT
Pfizer - Smart Factory
- Developed FastAPI microservices to modernize anomaly detection platforms, replacing Django apps and adding support for standardized APIs, batch mitigation, and moderation workflows across vaccine production lines.
- Built AI application frameworks using AWS services (SageMaker, EC2, CloudWatch) to accelerate batch-level analytics and model-driven decision-making for vaccines such as Prevnar and Enbrel, etc.
- Implemented automated data pipelines between Snowflake and FastAPI endpoints, enabling real-time ingestion of manufacturing data and reducing latency in anomaly flagging by 60%.
- Designed and deployed APIs for batch mitigation and alert tracking workflows, integrating with Snowflake to log and trace decisions across product lines.
- Led the redesign of the anomaly platform’s logging system to include structured request identifiers, which enabled log-based debugging and future integration with metrics platforms like Loki.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Docker, Python, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Glue, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Document Management Systems (DMS), Snowflake
Staff DevOps Engineer
2023 - PRESENT
Suki AI
- Contributed to the re-architecture of GCP infrastructure and IaC automation with Terraform.
- Served as project lead for efforts to re-architect GCP security.
- Contributed to team efforts to migrate from Helm to Kustomize for ArgoCD.
- Ran deployments for production on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Led a HIPAA compliance project for all company projects.
Technologies: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), APIs, Node.js, JavaScript 6, Amazon SageMaker
Staff DevOps Engineer
2022 - 2023
Evisort
- Led the Kubernetes (K8) project from its roots and managed the implementation team.
- Worked on improvements for the current stacks regarding CI/CD and monitoring enhancements.
- Created release management and procedures. Conducted site reliability engineering (SRE) work, leading a microservice transition project.
Technologies: Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Git, GitLab, ELK (Elastic Stack), Grafana, DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Linux, MacOS, Elasticsearch, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Architecture, Full-stack, LAMP, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Support & Maintenance, Software Project Management, Security, DevSecOps, AWS DevOps, APIs, Node.js, Firebase, AWS IAM, CORS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon CloudFront CDN, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, JavaScript 6, DocumentDB, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Senior DevOps Engineer
2021 - 2022
Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution
- Helped migrate AWS and Azure infrastructure from 21st Century Fox into Disney Media.
- Improved CI/CD with Gitlab CI and Azure DevOps for the old and new services.
- Completed infrastructure automation with Terraform for the cloud services.
Technologies: Amazon EKS, Azure, Azure DevOps Services, Git, Grafana, DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Linux, MacOS, Elasticsearch, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Architecture, Full-stack, LAMP, API Integration, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Support & Maintenance, Software Project Management, Security, AWS DevOps, APIs, Node.js, Firebase, AWS IAM, CORS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon CloudFront CDN, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, JavaScript 6, DocumentDB, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Senior DevOps Engineer
2020 - 2022
Anthem AI
- Automated the platform with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
- Facilitated single sign-on (SSO) integration and management with Keycloak for various applications like Vault, AWS, GitLab, and Datadog.
- Built Helm charts for the deployment of Kubernetes services.
- Automated and set up Elasticsearch IaC within AWS and implemented log shipping strategies for the applications.
Technologies: Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Keycloak, Terragrunt, Terraform, Python, Bash Script, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, Grafana, DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Linux, MacOS, Elasticsearch, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, Bitbucket, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Architecture, Full-stack, LAMP, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Support & Maintenance, Software Project Management, Security, AWS DevOps, APIs, Node.js, AWS IAM, CORS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon CloudFront CDN, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, JavaScript 6, DocumentDB, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Senior DevOps | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
2019 - 2020
Lavu INC
- Led microservice infrastructure migration based on OpenVz to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Kubernetes Operations (kOps) for application stack based on Go, Python, JavaScript, and PHP.
- Deployed and coordinated releases, patches, fixes, and any updates to the company products in staging and production environments.
- Retrofitted existing Terraform templates for the infrastructure.
- Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm and Terraform. Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications; managed Kubernetes manifest files; oversaw releases of Helm packages.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Jenkins, Bamboo, ELK (Elastic Stack), New Relic, Terraform, Debian, CentOS, GitHub, Git, Grafana, DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Linux, MacOS, Elasticsearch, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, Microservices, Microservices Architecture, Architecture, LAMP, API Integration, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Support & Maintenance, Software Project Management, AWS DevOps, APIs, Node.js, AWS IAM, CORS, Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, Redis, JavaScript 6, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Senior DevOps Engineer
2016 - 2019
Devellar
- Supported Azure cloud infrastructure. Reverse-engineered the existing infrastructure and automated it as IaC with Terraform.
- Completed the blue-green deployment pipeline based on Terraform templates for the PHP app and components.
- Built CI/CD environment across all projects in the company based on Jenkins pipelines and Job DSL. Accomplished automated testing using different frameworks for unit, integration, functional, and performance tests.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Zabbix, Terraform, OpenVZ, Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Ansible, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, Git, Grafana, DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Linux, PHP, MacOS, Elasticsearch, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, LAMP, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Support & Maintenance, Enterprise Software, AWS DevOps, APIs, AWS IAM, Redis, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Infrastructure Engineer
2010 - 2016
King Servers
- Deployed and maintained a new data center infrastructure at the company.
- Bootstrapped servers, switches, routers, and storage hardware for existing and new clients.
- Designed and built stacks for various client applications based on app architecture and bare metal machines.
- Automated infrastructure scalability with Ansible and Jenkins for various infrastructure templates based on Nix distribution.
- Worked on ticket support for dozens of clients with on-call rotations every two weeks.
- Performed Linux or Unix server administration, including network debugging and diagnostics.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Xen, Apache, NGINX, BIND, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, GitLab, GitHub, Git, Grafana, DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Linux, Unix, VMware, MacOS, Elasticsearch, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, LAMP, IoT Protocols, Redis, Quality of Service (QoS)
Experience
Lavu POS
https://cp.poslavu.com/As the lead infrastructure specialist for a microservice-based application, I spearheaded a successful lift and shift migration project for approximately 30 microservices from Rackspace's OpenVZ to AWS, utilizing Amazon EKS or Kubernetes. The entire process was automated with Terraform, allowing for efficient and streamlined infrastructure management.
In addition to the infrastructure migration, I designed and built CI/CD automation for the application using Bamboo, ensuring seamless and reliable deployment processes. This approach allowed the team to achieve faster and more frequent releases while maintaining high levels of quality control.
Overall, my expertise in infrastructure migration and CI/CD automation enabled the microservice-based application to perform at optimal levels, delivering high-quality services to users with minimal downtime or disruptions.
In addition to the infrastructure migration, I designed and built CI/CD automation for the application using Bamboo, ensuring seamless and reliable deployment processes. This approach allowed the team to achieve faster and more frequent releases while maintaining high levels of quality control.
Overall, my expertise in infrastructure migration and CI/CD automation enabled the microservice-based application to perform at optimal levels, delivering high-quality services to users with minimal downtime or disruptions.
DevOps Engineer for an AI Project
As a senior DevOps engineer, I designed and implemented a highly scalable and resilient microservice-based application infrastructure on AWS, using EKS clusters as the foundation. Terraform was utilized for automated infrastructure provisioning and GitLab for seamless CI/CD pipeline management. My work also included ensuring the infrastructure was optimized for performance, security, and cost-efficiency, allowing for seamless scaling and continuous delivery of high-quality software products.
Infrastructure Migration
https://dmedmedia.disney.com/I successfully migrated AWS and Azure infrastructure from 21CF into Disney Media and gained extensive experience managing applications across various platforms, including Kubernetes, AWS, and Azure. I supported new and existing AKS and EKS clusters, collaborating closely with development teams to ensure production-ready, resilient clusters.
My expertise in deploying Kubernetes applications using Helm charts and Kustomize and creating config maps, ingress, and services has ensured the observability of both applications and infrastructure, guaranteeing reliability and resilience.
I automated the platform with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management using Terraform, as well as implemented pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, and Jenkins. Administering Kubernetes clusters in both Azure and AWS, I have managed container orchestration, pipelines, and databases to deliver actionable implementations based on development requirements.
By providing operations management and development team support, I have delivered numerous successful products and engineering projects to production, monitoring observability to ensure optimal performance and efficiency.
My expertise in deploying Kubernetes applications using Helm charts and Kustomize and creating config maps, ingress, and services has ensured the observability of both applications and infrastructure, guaranteeing reliability and resilience.
I automated the platform with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management using Terraform, as well as implemented pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, and Jenkins. Administering Kubernetes clusters in both Azure and AWS, I have managed container orchestration, pipelines, and databases to deliver actionable implementations based on development requirements.
By providing operations management and development team support, I have delivered numerous successful products and engineering projects to production, monitoring observability to ensure optimal performance and efficiency.
Education
2006 - 2010
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Programming
Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design - Kyiv, Ukraine
Certifications
JANUARY 2021 - JANUARY 2024
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
APRIL 2018 - PRESENT
CompTIA Security+
New Horizons Computer Learning Center
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, Terragrunt
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Bamboo, Amazon EKS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS IAM, Puppet, Git, NGINX, Apache, ELK (Elastic Stack), Grafana, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon SageMaker, Bitbucket, Shell, VMware, GitHub, GitLab, Zabbix, Turbo Pascal, Keycloak, Helm, Azure DevOps Services, GitLab CI/CD, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), AWS Glue
Languages
Bash Script, Python, PHP, Visual Basic, JavaScript 6, Snowflake
Paradigms
DevOps, Microservices Architecture, Automation, Microservices, Azure DevOps, DevSecOps
Platforms
Docker, CentOS, Linux, Unix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, LAMP, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, MacOS, Debian, Ubuntu, New Relic, Azure PaaS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Xen, FreeBSD, Firebase
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, Load Balancers, Autoscaling, Architecture, API Integration, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Support & Maintenance, Enterprise Software, AWS DevOps, APIs, Music, Bitbucket Pipelines, Full-stack, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software Project Management, Security, CORS, Gentoo, BIND, OpenVZ, Engineering, Electronics, Networking, Linux Server Administration, IoT Protocols, DocumentDB, Quality of Service (QoS), Document Management Systems (DMS)
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