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Sergi Papinashvili
DevOps / Platform Engineer
papinashvilisergi@gmail.com · +995 571 04 19 95 · Tbilisi, Georgia · linkedin · github

10+ years in tech overall, of which 5+ years in DevOps specifically — spanning on-prem infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and Kubernetes platform work across banking, security, and infrastructure teams.

Skills

Kubernetes / HelmArgoCDTerraform / OpenTofu Ansible / AWXDockerCI/CD (GitHub, GitLab, Azure, Jenkins) Kong API GatewayAWS / Route53 / Cloudflare AzureGoogle CloudAkamai Cloud LinuxBash / Python / GoGit Grafana / Prometheus / ZabbixElasticsearch / Kibana / Fluentd PostgreSQL / Oracle / MongoDBHashiCorp VaultRabbitMQ

Experience

AdaptiveOS · Self-employedsince Feb 2026
Creator and Lead Maintainer
  • Solo-founded and maintain an open-source, modular polyrepo Linux distro — kernel compilation, init systems, boot process internals.
TBC BankFeb 2025 – Feb 2026
DevOps Engineer
  • Architected and operated a production Kubernetes cluster (hybrid on-prem/cloud), with Helm charts and ArgoCD-based GitOps deployments.
  • Migrated legacy services onto Kubernetes via Kong API routing and GitLab CI pipelines.
  • Built the Grafana + Prometheus observability stack from scratch; used Dynatrace during on-call rotations.
  • Managed Ansible Vault for secrets across AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, Route53, IAM) and Azure (VMs, VNets, Blob Storage, Monitor, DNS, Entra ID, RBAC).
  • Worked across Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL in production troubleshooting.
BitSec LTDJan 2022 – Jan 2025
Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer
  • Automated network tooling in Go (port scanners, DNS analyzers) and infra provisioning with Ansible.
  • Provisioned cloud-native environments with Terraform + LocalStack; designed disaster recovery strategy.
RightNao-GeorgiaSep 2019 – Dec 2021
DevOps Engineer
  • Built mail infrastructure on Postfix/Dovecot, hardened with DMARC/DKIM/SPF via Cloudflare DNS (PTR records via Linode/Akamai, where the mail server was hosted) — 10/10 sender reputation.
  • Administered Zabbix monitoring and PFSense firewall; automated provisioning with Ansible.
Futkara – Impervet LTDJan 2016 – Aug 2019
IT Operations Engineer
  • Network troubleshooting and Windows Server administration.

Certifications

Projects

AdaptiveOScustom Linux distributionGitHub
LLM RAG Assistantlocal offline RAG pipeline (Ollama, LangChain, ChromaDB)GitHub
Secure Mesh VPNWireGuard/XRay-based mesh VPNGitHub
SaaS Monitorasync FastAPI weather monitoring appGitHub
URL ShortenerGitHub
CalorieFlowcross-platform calorie tracker (Flutter/Dart)GitHub