Tbilisi, Georgia
Delivering stuff in DevSecOps e2e. ex DevOps/SRE
INFOBLOX | SaaS platform for security analysis and network visualization Supported a product team with 5 Go developers and 2 DevOps engineers Responsible for supporting dedicated microservices and developing CI/CD pipelines Participated in DevOps guild activities, such as cost optimization and CI/CD tooling - Optimized Kubernetes resource usage, reducing AWS costs by 15% - Developed and supported CD pipelines with Spinnaker for automated Kubernetes deployments - Migrated Kubernetes clusters to GCP for cost optimization and redundancy, reducing costs by 50%
Led and grew the engineering team Oversaw platform stability and monitoring, collaborated closely with SEO, support, and development teams to balance time-to-market (TTM) and technical debt Transitioned engineering processes from Waterfall to Scrum sprints to ensure stable delivery and a clear roadmap Accountable for high-level tech decision-making, grooming complex issues with tech teams, and building ADRs Nurtured DevOps culture, engineering excellence, code reviews, and adoption of new solutions - Scaled and managed the engineering team from 3 to 10 members, including 5 backend engineers, 2 frontend engineers, and 3 QA specialists Responsibilities included conducting interviews, 1:1 meetings, team backlog management, retrospectives, and coaching - Collaborated closely with the support team to create monitoring metrics with KPIs, a knowledge base (KB), and a developer on-call system, reducing incidents by 50% - Documented technical solutions and team processes through ADRs, integrating them into the development workflow for platform, product, and support teams
Joined the DevOps team of 5 engineers, responsible for managing Workfusion's internal infrastructure both on-premise and in the cloud Key responsibilities included restructuring CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins-Groovy, Ansible, Terraform, and automating infrastructure for 25 internal Java-based services Also involved in migrating services to AWS and optimizing costs - Developed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins-Groovy for 25+ services, reducing release time from 1 day to 4 hours - Automated environment setup with Ansible, Packer, and Terraform, increasing DevOps team support capacity by 50% - Adopted Chaos Engineering by integrating Mangle and Gremlin for CD, identifying major bugs and enhancing platform reliability
Internal Systems Support L3 infrastructure team focusing on critical internal EPAM systems, such as GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Crucible Responsibilities included customer support via tickets, on-call support, maintaining/updating services, and automating support activities - Automated internal policy granting system via Python, reducing request time from 10 minutes to 10 seconds - Participated in GitLab migration to the cloud, automating DR procedures and reducing downtimes - Authored internal documentation, improving support and on-call efficiency by 10%