DevOps Engineer focused on Kubernetes, GitOps, and infrastructure automation — designing CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and cloud infrastructure that hold up in production.
Custom Linux Distribution — solo-founded and maintain an open-source, modular polyrepo distro, covering packaging, init systems, and the build pipeline.
Provided orchestration scripts and CI pipelines to automate image builds and manage the workspace.
Managed a production Kubernetes cluster, ensuring high availability and reliability across the platform; created and managed Helm charts for application deployments.
Migrated existing services to Kubernetes — moving them off their prior infrastructure and onto K8s via ArgoCD deployments and Kong API routing; wrote and optimized GitLab CI pipelines alongside Azure DevOps.
Set up the Grafana + Prometheus observability stack, covering service health, performance metrics, and infrastructure KPIs across all servers.
Used ArgoCD's pull-based GitOps model to deploy only changed components — cutting deployment time and improving pod self-healing across legacy and modern services.
Managed Kong API Gateway for all API-facing services (worker services routed via ArgoCD only), giving developers and QA self-service access to endpoints without manual provisioning.
Proactively identified and resolved critical Kubernetes pod anomalies and development-phase bugs before reaching production.
Worked across multiple production databases — Oracle & MSSQL — including direct query-level troubleshooting of endpoints failing to read from the database.
BitSec LTDJan 2022 – Jan 2025
Systems & Infrastructure Engineer
Automated network tooling (port scanners, DNS analyzers, traffic monitors) and infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and Python.
Managed mail infrastructure — PST file cleanup and backups — and administered Active Directory user accounts.
Designed enterprise-level disaster recovery and backup strategies for mission-critical business data using Acronis, Norton Ghost, AOMEI, and Clonezilla.
RightNao-GeorgiaSep 2019 – Dec 2021
Systems Engineer
Designed and automated mail infrastructure pipeline on Postfix / Dovecot / SpamAssassin, hardening deliverability and security with DMARC, DKIM, and SPF records managed via Cloudflare DNS (PTR records managed separately via Linode/Akamai, where the mail server was hosted), and monitoring sender reputation via Talos Intelligence and MXToolbox — reaching a 10/10 reputation score and securing whitelisting with Google, Microsoft, and Spamhaus.
Managed network security controls via PFSense (firewall rules, ACLs, whitelisting).
Deployed and maintained Grafana dashboards for real-time infrastructure monitoring.
Set up and administered Zabbix for network-wide monitoring and alerting.
Set up and managed a MariaDB database backing the mail server.
Engineered an OpenVPN infrastructure pipeline for remote user connectivity, with automatic reconnection upon internal network access loss.
Automated Linux environment provisioning and configuration management using Ansible, eliminating the need to manually update configurations across multiple servers individually.
Futkara – Impervet LTDJan 2016 – Aug 2019
IT Operations Engineer
Performed network and enterprise troubleshooting, Windows Server administration, and hardware support (printers, scanners, OS reinstalls, backups) while completing coursework toward CCNA certification.
Carried out early manual monitoring of website latency and uptime, prior to adopting dedicated DevOps tooling.