Tallinn Metropolitan Area
~AWS Focused Cloud architect & DevOps Engineer | Infra & Backend Specialist~ 2+ years of hands-on experience building and managing cloud-native infrastructure for startups and small teams. Core expertise in AWS ecosystem, IaaC, CI/CD automation, and backend systems built in Go, Python, and Node.js.
Built containerized microservices and APIs (REST/gRPC) with authentication, memcached and redis caching, + nginx rate limiting, using Golang, Node.js, MERN, and FastAPI, tailored to client infra and requirements. Integrated with custom CI/CD pipelines and deployed on AWS EKS. Saved Costs by not using AWS native CI/CD offering Enforced OWASP Top 10 within the startup Designed CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins to automate deployments and streamline workflows. Managed AWS Free Tier environments for first-time users, delivering cost-efficient, scalable setups with built-in resilience and high availability. Assisted in react frontend debugging, UX enhancements, and integrating third-party Payment webhook APIs including Stripe and Paypal for US based Clients
Developed and maintained small-scale backend systems built on express.js and django, implementing RESTful APIs, database integrations, and authn + authz mechanisms Deployed and managed applications on DigitalOcean and Hetzner VPS, handling server configurations, Image customisations, performance optimizations, and made sure that the config was as cost effective as possible. Estimating CPU and Memory usage through stress tests and chaos engineering Contributed to early-stage UX design discussions, ensuring backend compatibility with frontend workflows for web-based projects.
Customized WordPress sites, managed cPanel, domains, SSL Certs, Email Delivarability and basic server configs. Handled LAMP Stack backend tasks for wordpress heavy sites and optimized performance by integrating caching plugins for static content