guest@nikita.sh:~$tail -n 200 experience.log
Nov 2022 – Sep 2025 (2y 11m) › VK Saint Petersburg
Site Reliability Engineer
- Built and ran CorpCloud and ProdCloud, OpenStack-based private clouds spanning 500+ hypervisors
- Stood up a complete test environment for the platform from scratch
- Led a large-scale compute migration across multiple data centers with minimal downtime
- Delivered Managed Kubernetes and Cloud Databases as core platform services
- Rolled out cloud logging, monitoring, and event tracing for full-stack observability
- Investigated incidents, ran root-cause analysis, and squashed performance bottlenecks
- Wrote runbooks, operational guides, and technical documentation for the team
- Learned to sleep with one eye open during on-call weeks
// tech: OpenStack, Linux (RHEL, CentOS, RedOS), libvirt, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, HAProxy, Nginx, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 (1y 6m) › EPAM Anywhere Moscow
Systems Engineer
- Supported development and release of a Biotech solution from MVP to production readiness
- Designed serverless AWS architecture in collaboration with the Solutions Architect
- Automated CI/CD procedures from scratch
- Provisioned AWS infrastructure with IaC
- Implemented and fine-tuned strict security policies for compliance
- Singlehandedly owned the whole infrastructure and automation stack
- Battled off the enterprise bureaucracy
// tech: AWS (CloudFormation, Lambda, IAM, ECS, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, EventBridge, API Gateway, S3, EC2, CloudWatch), Jenkins, GitLab, SonarQube, Nexus, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Docker, CentOS, TypeScript, Maven, Jest, Stryker
Feb 2020 – Sep 2020 (8m) › Assaia International AG Switzerland
Infrastructure Engineer
- Configured, deployed, and supported pilot instances of the platform
- Developed a video delivery pipeline with collection and storage systems
- Pushed the platform's first-ever release to production readiness
- Automated cloud resource provisioning; refactored and improved IaC readability
- Reinforced infrastructure security with best practices
- Supported software engineers, data availability, and internal uptime
- Perfected blindfold YAML engineering skills
// tech: Azure, GCP, Debian, CentOS, Docker, Podman, K3s, Kubeflow, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NSQ, Nginx, GitLab CI, Zabbix, Prometheus, Git, FFmpeg, Nvidia GPU, Jetson AGX Xavier
Oct 2019 – Dec 2019 (3m) › Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Saint Petersburg · ex. T-Systems
Configuration Manager
- Troubleshot infrastructure and deployment process issues
- Supported and consulted 15+ dev teams on CI/CD topics
- Managed an OpenShift cluster's load (30+ namespaces, ~100 pods each)
- Implemented a custom reverse/forward proxy plugin for Kong (in Lua)
- Participated on-call during critical incidents and primary rollouts
- Mentored and shared knowledge with team members
// tech: OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Lua, Python, Bash, 3scale, Keycloak, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, Kong, HAProxy, GitLab CI, Prometheus, Grafana, EFK Stack, Nexus, Jira, Confluence, Git
Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 (7m) › ventx GmbH Germany
Cloud Engineer
- Designed and built a highly-available Kubernetes cluster on bare-metal infrastructure
- Configured cluster networking; implemented log management and monitoring
- Shifted Jenkins pipelines to deploy via Kubernetes
- Established policies and operated the cluster for security and multi-tenancy
- Transitioned AWS infrastructure to code with Terraform and Ansible
- Consulted and shared wisdom with business clients and the team
- Contributed to the imposter syndrome rate in tech
// tech: AWS, Ubuntu, Docker, LXC, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Python, Bash, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, HAProxy, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Graylog, Ceph, MAAS, pfSense, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Git
Oct 2015 – Sep 2017 (2y) › Devexperts GmbH Germany
Operations Engineer
- Maintained dev, test, pre-prod, and production environments for a large-scale trading platform
- Ran deployments and configuration changes, troubleshooting issues while meeting SLAs
- Managed incidents, emergency response, and root-cause analysis
- Kept internal monitoring solutions in sync with the platform
- Automated release processes, built tooling with Bash and Python
- Collaborated with application support, QA, developers, and business owners
- Developed a healthy on-call fatigue
// tech: Java EE, WebLogic, Tomcat, Log4j, Oracle RDBMS, PostgreSQL, RHEL, CentOS, Splunk, Bash, Perl, Python, AWS EC2, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Fisheye, Git
Sep 2012 – Sep 2015 (3y 1m) › Devexperts Saint Petersburg
Application Support Specialist (Tier 2)
- Monitored applications and infrastructure of a large-scale distributed trading platform
- Registered and supported incoming service requests and incidents through their lifecycle
- Investigated application/environment issues; ran SQL queries; analyzed logs
- Participated on-call during major incidents, engaging in resolution
- Performed daily maintenance, assisted with rollouts and configuration changes
- Wrote instructions and kept internal documentation up to date
- Operated in low-power mode during night shifts
// tech: Java EE, JVM, SQL, RHEL, Bash, grep, sed, awk, Perl, regex, Python, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Git
