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01. # about

DevOps engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure. I build production platforms end-to-end: from Terraform modules and Kubernetes clusters to GitOps pipelines and secrets management. Worked across AWS and OCI at scale — from streaming platforms serving millions to logistics systems spanning continents.

I lean toward GitOps-first, security-conscious approaches: infrastructure defined in code, secrets in vaults, deployments reconciled by ArgoCD, and CI/CD that enforces quality gates before anything hits production.

Based in Warsaw, Poland. Fluent in Russian, Polish, and English.

gitops-first infrastructure-as-code multi-cloud security-conscious friday-deploys-approved

02. # experience

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Pluto TV (Paramount) — Pluto Infrastructure Engineering
2022 — Present
  • Operate and evolve a multi-cluster AWS/EKS platform serving a large streaming service — 200+ repos spanning Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Atlantis, Istio, Datadog, and GitHub Actions
  • Rolled out event-driven autoscaling with KEDA across multi-environment clusters, wired to Datadog via the Cluster Agent, unblocking autoscaling on service-mesh gateway traffic
  • Built reusable Helm and Terraform templates for cluster and workload provisioning, adopted across multiple engineering teams
  • Led Helm v3 restructuring and OCI chart migration for core services; improved CI build performance through BuildKit and remote-cache experiments
  • Debugged complex production issues across Envoy filters in Istio, autoscaling edge cases, and CI pipeline regressions
  • Contributing to the ongoing AWS-to-GCP migration — adapting platform tooling, IaC modules, and deployment workflows for the new cloud

DevOps Specialist

DB Schenker Technology Center Warsaw
2018 — 2022
  • Led a team of 4 DevOps engineers as disciplinary lead
  • Built CI/CD for 100+ Maven and Node.js microservices in GitLab, from build to production
  • Executed two full AWS-to-AWS account migrations — infrastructure, pipelines, monitoring, DNS
  • Integrated security scanning (Trivy, SonarQube) across all production container images
  • Administered Kubernetes clusters and GitLab instances, including upgrades and RBAC policies

DevOps Engineer

10Clouds · Espeo Software · Growbots
2016 — 2018
  • Provisioned and managed client infrastructure on AWS with Terraform
  • Ran PostgreSQL in production — replication, backups, Consul service discovery, Vault integration
  • Set up monitoring stacks with Prometheus and Grafana across multiple projects
  • Managed CI/CD with Jenkins and CircleCI, and 50+ web server configurations (Nginx, Apache)

03. # stack

Cloud Platforms

AWS GCP OCI Cloudflare Docker Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Terragrunt Ansible Pulumi cloud-init

Containers & Orchestration

Helm Kustomize Istio K3s containerd Colima

CI/CD & GitOps

ArgoCD GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins Dependabot Renovate

Networking & Ingress

Envoy Gateway API Nginx cert-manager external-dns Traefik

Security & Secrets

Vault OCI KMS ESO Trivy SonarQube OPA

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Sentry OCI Monitoring Fluentd Loki

Data & Languages

PostgreSQL MySQL S3 Bash Python Go

04. # contact

email
ivan@nikolaev.id
phone
+48 739 008 289
location
Warsaw, Poland
languages
RU · PL · EN