Summary
I'm a results-oriented leader with a strong foundation in leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making. I pride myself on my ability to dig deep into the root cause of any challenge — whether technical or operational — to understand it fully and address it effectively. With a clear understanding of the value of time, investments, and human resources, I approach every situation with strategic foresight.
As Head of DevOps & IT, I've operated across the full spectrum — from pre-sales and inbound marketing to production engineering, FinOps, and incident management — always ensuring seamless collaboration across teams. I've led automation efforts across financial, HR, IT, and sales functions, developed essential policies, and integrated InfoSec practices across the vertical. I'm constantly looking for ways to streamline processes and drive meaningful impact.
Detailed Experience
Stepico
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Gaming · Gambling · Blockchain · Art
170–220 ppl · 10 direct reports + dedicated contractors
- Served as Head of DevOps, Head of IT, and Information Security lead simultaneously — overseeing operations across all aspects of the company, managing and optimizing budgets, resources, and staff
- As Head of IT: restructured IT workflows achieving a 45-minute average helpdesk ticket resolution time with a lean team; introduced processes informed by Risk Assessment audits and Bottleneck analyses; enhanced inventory and asset control; streamlined automation in marketing and finance
- Initiated the adoption of ISO 27001 standards, laying the groundwork for long-term security compliance; automated PO processes
- As Head of DevOps: reengineered the company's application architecture, created unified methodologies, and fostered an R&D ecosystem for sustainable development
- Spearheaded production-grade transformations, reworked observability frameworks with automated alerting, and actively managed resource allocation across projects from small teams to multi-team efforts of 60+ members
- Established SLA control and production incident management processes company-wide; led customer communication and cross-development collaboration
Tech Stack
.NET ecosystemUnitySLS Framework
TerraformVaultGitLab
NodeJSHelmAWS
Bashpwsh
Prometheus · Grafana · LokiFluentBit
MicroservicesMonolithic apps
Agile · Scrum · KanbanFinOps
SWOT · PESTLE · RICE
Viseven
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Pharma · FinTech
200–250 ppl
- Worked on a fast-evolving project comprising numerous microservices within the JavaScript ecosystem, featuring Kubernetes, Serverless architectures, and various other best practices
- Implemented numerous optimizations for services and infrastructure — reducing costs, decreasing CI worker job times, and fine-tuning cluster performance
- Made significant improvements to SSO integrations (AAD + SAML) and AWS service optimizations, leading to enhanced operational metrics
- Redesigned several approaches to adopt Lambda-oriented stacks; reorganized IaC strategy for enhanced efficiency and maintainability
- Provided extensive mentoring and developed comprehensive tutorials for new team members and developers
Tech Stack
TerraformVaultAWS Parameter Store
GitLabOctopus DeployTeamCity
NodeJSAAD + SAML SSO
KopsHelm v2 & v3
AWS (EKS · Lambda · DynamoDB · CloudWatch · EventBridge · SQS)
Prometheus · Grafana · Alertmanager
FluentBitHetzner Cloud · Proxmox
Ambisafe
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Blockchain · FinTech · Supply Chain · IoT
1–2 to 20+ ppl + dedicated teams
- Organized HR and delivery processes; conducted numerous one-on-one calls with customers globally; significantly influenced team processes through Agile methodologies
- Fully (re)organized the development, continuous integration, and delivery of all current and upcoming projects across the company
- Analyzed security bottlenecks in existing schemas and implemented appropriate strategies to maximize delivery speed and enhance security posture
- Introduced new software development approaches; automated various tasks, pipelines, and processes, primarily leveraging GitLab services
- Fully responsible for managing GitLab — rolling out updates, integrating services, debugging, and extending functionalities with new third-party services
- Later transitioned to full PM ownership, operating independently to drive project success across dedicated subordinate teams
SoftServe
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Healthcare · FinTech
1–2 to 40–50 ppl
- Took on expanding responsibilities across fast-evolving microservice projects in the JavaScript ecosystem — troubleshooting, refactoring infrastructure code, release management, and contributing to new features
- Led migration of 20+ services from private VM clusters to a self-hosted OpenStack environment; designed execution processes using binary files and Docker containers
- Fully managed cloud resources, optimizing costs and enhancing edge utility; separated project codebase as an independent entity for dedicated growth
- Implemented security measures, managed the entire application lifecycle, and executed local development processes for efficient and secure operations
- Deployed a Java-based Order Management System using Jenkins to manage artifact deployment to Tomcat 7-based containers
- Facilitated brainstorming meetings, organized mentoring programs for new team members, designed and maintained a master-slave monitoring system with alerting, and maintained centralized Sentry logging
Tech Stack
TerraformVaultConsul
GitLabNodeJS
Kubernetes 1.10–1.21 (AKS · Kops)
Helm v2 & v3
AWS (EKS · Lambda · CloudFormation · DynamoDB · CloudWatch)
Telegram Bot · RocketChat APIs
Prometheus · Grafana · Alertmanager
SentryBlockchain ecosystem
Earlier commercial experience
- Maintained GitLab as primary SCM, SonarQube for code quality, and Nexus for YUM repository and backup storage; managed CI/CD across multiple data centers with Jenkins and GitLab
- Automated deployment and configuration provisioning using Ansible and Terraform across KVM virtualization and AWS; supported Docker and on-premises deployments
- Spearheaded creation of a high-availability GitLab cluster: master-slave PostgreSQL, HAProxy load balancer, Gitaly + NFS file storage, Redis master-slave, self-hosted OpenLDAP for account management
- Implemented comprehensive Prometheus + Grafana monitoring with alerting; maintained centralized Sentry logging
- Restructured a Ruby on Rails application lifecycle using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Travis-CI, and AWS (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3) — improving performance, scalability, and reliability
Tech Stack
OpenStack (Terraform · HEAT)
Terraform 0.10–0.12Java 8
AWSAzure
TomcatJenkinsGroovy
GitLabPostgreSQL
RedisGitaly + NFS
ConsulDocker
KVMLDAP
Prometheus · Grafana
HAProxyTraefik
NginxApache Httpd
