Curriculum Vitae

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Recent positions

Scalefinal (Digital Marketing, iGaming) — SRE & DevOps Engineer
Sep 2024 — Dec 2025
  • Built and standardized multi-cloud/bare-metal platforms for 10+ products
  • Defined SLI/SLOs and error budgets; maintained 99.99% availability for core services
  • Implemented observability (metrics/logs/traces) with Prometheus/Grafana + centralized logging
  • Led incident response; introduced postmortems, runbooks, and alert quality practices
  • Reduced MTTD/MTTR through automation, tuning, and operational guardrails
Stack: Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab, Grafana
Haqqex (Crypto exchange) — DevOps Engineer
May 2023 — Jul 2024
  • Managed AWS environments; reduced operational costs and improved reliability
  • Built observability (metrics/logs/traces + alerting) with dashboards used by on-call
  • Automated CI/CD across many services; improved deployment speed and repeatability
  • Implemented GitOps and IaC patterns to reduce drift and manual changes
Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, Grafana
Coralogix (SaaS tooling) — DevOps Engineer
Apr 2021 — May 2023
  • Operated Kubernetes clusters, supporting 99.9%+ availability
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
  • Improved delivery reliability by reducing flaky pipelines and improving caching/consistency
Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Terraform, ArgoCD
FinFlow (E-payments) — DevOps Engineer
Apr 2018 — Apr 2021
  • Built/operated PCI-DSS payment processing platform handling 10k+ transactions/day
  • Designed consistent release workflows, backups, and incident procedures
  • Ran bare-metal Kubernetes with production-grade monitoring
Stack: Bare metal, kubeadm, TeamCity, Ansible, Bash