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100 % availableSenior DevOps & Cloud Architect | GitLab & Fintech Expertise | NY Overnight Delivery
Berkeley Heights, NJ, USA Master's Degree in Automated Control Systems (Electromechanics)
About me
Senior DevOps/Cloud Architect with 25+ years US contract experience (since 1999). Expert in GitLab CI/CD, AWS (EC2/EKS/RDS/Lambda/S3), Terraform, Dynatrace/Prometheus/CloudWatch, SRE/on-call. NY-based (EST): Overnight delivery advantage for EU teams.
Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Elastic Compute CloudAutomationBash ShellCloud ComputingDevOpsDisaster RecoveryDistributed SystemsDomain Name System (DNS)Incident ResponseVMware ESX ServersHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ComplianceScalabilityIdentity ManagementInfrastructure Management
Senior DevOps/Platform/Cloud Architect with extensive hands-on experience building and maintaining resilient, scalable infrastructures for high-stakes environments.
Site Reliability Engineering
- Designed and implemented resiliency engineering practices, including chaos testing (AWS Fault Injection Simulator), disaster recovery strategies, incident response processes, and on-call rotations
- Ensured mission-critical systems achieved high availability through advanced observability and proactive reliability measures
Cloud Infrastructure & AWS
- Architected multi-region, highly available AWS environments using EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, and hybrid cloud integrations
- Consistently delivered 99.9%+ uptime for production workloads through robust design and optimization
Automation & DevOps Practices
- Expert in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, AWS CDK) and scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
- Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI and Jenkins for rapid, reliable deployments
Monitoring & Observability
- Implemented comprehensive monitoring solutions using CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK Stack
- Enabled real-time insights and alerting for distributed, large-scale systems
Database Management
- Administered and optimized Oracle RDS, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases in production environments
- Focused on performance tuning, scalability, and high-availability configurations
Security & Compliance
- Managed vulnerability remediation and enforced STIG, SOX, and HIPAA compliance
- Applied IAM best practices and Zero Trust principles to secure cloud-native and hybrid environments
Networking & Load Balancing
- Configured TCP/IP networks, DNS, load balancers, TLS/HTTPS termination, and VPN solutions
- Ensured secure, high-performance connectivity across cloud and on-premises infrastructure
Virtualization Technologies
- Hands-on experience with VMware ESXi, KVM, QEMU, and OpenStack
- Built and managed hybrid cloud architectures combining virtualized and containerized workloads
Languages
GermanBasic knowledgeEnglishNative speakerRussianNative speakerUkrainianBasic knowledge
Project history
Architected active-active-active multi-region resiliency for merchant acquiring platform serving bank partnerships, achieving 99.9% uptime with automated failover. Conducted chaos engineering with AWS FIS and built enterprise GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Designed hybrid cloud-to-on-premise architecture with GitHub Pages CDN frontend and on-premise Oracle backend. Built GitLab Actions CI/CD pipelines with automated deployments and Terraform modules for AWS resource management.
Maintained 99.9% uptime for VA.gov services serving millions of veterans. Supported Java Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, and Python FastAPI apps in AWS GovCloud with EKS, ArgoCD GitOps, and comprehensive monitoring.