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Lead DevSecOps & Platform Architect | Cloud Infrastructure | Engineering Leadership
Valencia, Spain
Only remote
Vilnius Business College — BA, Network Administration & System Programming, 2002–2005About me
I build secure, reliable cloud platforms and lead infrastructure teams. 15+ years across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, IaC and CI/CD, including fintech. EU citizen and autónomo in Spain; open to remote B2B, fractional and leadership engagements.
FinOpsIAMAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Cloud Computing SecurityCloud EngineeringVirtual Private ServersDevOpsRAIDAmazon DynamoDBInternet Protocol Security (IP SEC)Virtual Private Networks (VPN)AnsibleVaultVulnerability Management
Lead DevSecOps, platform and infrastructure leader with 15+ years across fintech, cloud, security and reliability. Recent work includes GCP infrastructure as code, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Cloudflare security, OpenTelemetry, vulnerability remediation and Co-CTO delivery leadership. Earlier: grew Syntropy's DevOps team from 1 to 7 and led migration to 200+ node Kubernetes clusters at Tesonet.
AWS: EC2, EKS, RDS, SQS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lightsail, EBS and S3.
Google Cloud (GCP): Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Build, Compute Engine VMs, GKE/Kubernetes on GCP, VPC, IAM, Secret Manager, BigQuery, Cloud Armor and FinOps. Other clouds and virtualization: Azure, OCI, Hetzner, ProfitBricks, Vultr, DigitalOcean, OpenVZ and VMware.
Containers, orchestration and service mesh: Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Nomad, Istio and Helm.
Infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation: Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, Packer and Rundeck.
Storage: RAID, Rook, Longhorn, NFS, GlusterFS and cloud block/object storage.
CI/CD and code: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Git, Jenkins, Argo CD, TeamCity, Bash, Python and Ruby.
Security, networking and edge: DevSecOps, PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, vulnerability management, dependency/container scanning, secrets management, Vault, Cloudflare Workers, Access, WAF, SSL/TLS, DNS and rate limiting, firewalls, Fortigate, pfSense, VPN, IPsec, IPTables, load balancing, Cilium, Akamai, HAProxy and Auth0.
Monitoring, logs and incidents: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Icinga, Munin, Splunk, Graylog, Elasticsearch/ELK, Fluentd, Zabbix, Sentry, Datadog, New Relic, Opsgenie, InfluxDB, TICK/Chronograf, Big Brother monitoring, alerting and on-call response.
Databases and messaging: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, Redis, MongoDB, Memcached, MSSQL, Oracle DB, Cassandra, QuestDB, TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, Couchbase, RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS and IBM MQ.
Web and systems: Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, VyOS/Vyatta, Windows Server, Postfix, Amavis, uWSGI, SolusVM, Plesk and Blesta.
Leadership and delivery: team building, coaching, stakeholder/vendor management, strategy, performance and project management, Agile/Scrum/Kanban, capacity planning, incident management, documentation, Jira, Confluence, Linear, Metabase reporting, communication, negotiation and cross-cultural collaboration.
Broad self-reported inventory from my CV and LinkedIn history. Some niche tools were used in earlier roles; project-specific depth and recency are available on request. Remote B2B, fractional or permanent work from Spain.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2019
Languages
EnglishFluentRussianNative speakerSpanishBasic knowledgeLithuanianNative speaker
Project history
Lead six engineers across product, infrastructure and an outsourced vendor, including ownership of the core-banking vendor relationship. Introduced capacity-based delivery planning; the best recorded cycle reached 65% completion versus 23–43% in comparable cycles. Built delivery reporting for planning and reviews. Own technical compliance work across PCI DSS, SOC 2 and GDPR and supported a CASS 15 safeguarding audit. Designed a BigQuery-to-Metabase reporting data lake for leadership visibility and led the migration to Linear as the engineering system of record.
Built and secured GCP infrastructure with Terraform, including Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, VPC, IAM, Cloud Armor and Secret Manager; migrated legacy AWS and Azure workloads to GCP. Remediated 70+ production vulnerabilities across four services and implemented Cloudflare WAF, rate limiting and Access. Built GitHub Actions pipelines with promotion-based deployments and automated dependency and container scanning. Implemented OpenTelemetry, centralised logging and alerting for observability and incident response.
* Strategic Product Development: Collaborated with clients for requirements
gathering. Directed user-friendly feature development, improving usability and
performance. Vetted and outsourced to development agencies.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Supported CEO in investor pitches. Achieved GDPR
compliance, enhancing platform trustworthiness.
* Technical Leadership: Mentored and coached 6-member team, building skills,
engagement, motivation, and high-performing workforce.
* Infrastructure Management: Secured and optimized infrastructure for the platform
and internal tools on AWS, leveraging services like EKS, RDS, SQS, Auth0, Sentry,
Grafana/Prometheus and others.
* Operational Excellence: Managed daily operations with a balanced approach,
emphasizing productivity, accountability, and team well-being to prevent burnout,
resulting in a motivated and efficient team.
gathering. Directed user-friendly feature development, improving usability and
performance. Vetted and outsourced to development agencies.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Supported CEO in investor pitches. Achieved GDPR
compliance, enhancing platform trustworthiness.
* Technical Leadership: Mentored and coached 6-member team, building skills,
engagement, motivation, and high-performing workforce.
* Infrastructure Management: Secured and optimized infrastructure for the platform
and internal tools on AWS, leveraging services like EKS, RDS, SQS, Auth0, Sentry,
Grafana/Prometheus and others.
* Operational Excellence: Managed daily operations with a balanced approach,
emphasizing productivity, accountability, and team well-being to prevent burnout,
resulting in a motivated and efficient team.
Certificates
Brain Based Coaching
NeuroLeadership Institute2023
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
AWS2020