Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Results-driven Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering. Migrated enterprise solutions between cloud providers aligning them with business requirements; taken over legacy projects from vendors, operated and modernized them, increasing the control of the company over the software; implemented GitLab CI framework solution and integrated development teams into it to increase productivity and ensure alignment with corporate standards.
- Delivered hands-on DevOps engineering, architectural guidance, and ad-hoc expertise to a startup in IoT field. - Acted as a interim CTO managing the software development vendor, including requirements engineering, acceptance testing by utilizing agile principles. - Worked hands on for cloud provisioning and deployment utilizing IaC and serverless, designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and partial feature implementation, iterative improvements and bug fixes.
- Led DevOps takeover of a mission-critical .NET auction system on Azure ($300M/month trades), reverse engineered undocumented vendor software, and enabled full operational control. - Saved company $55k by skipping unnecessary vendor trainings during takeover. - Designed roadmap for modernization, covering licensing, security, and resilience. - Automated manual SQL/API workflows with NodeJS Azure Functions, saving 30+ engineering hours/month and reducing operational risk.
- Supported high-traffic products (10TB+ monthly) with strict latency/uptime SLAs. - Migrated Kubernetes clusters to sole-tenant nodes while combining workload based node groups, optimizing costs and simplifying management. - Led Cloudflare WAF migration after depreciation of older version to ensure continued security. - Designed & rolled out an extensible GitLab CI framework enabling GitOps practices, trunk based development, and automated Terraform/Grafana deployments. Adopted company wide after early team success.
- Delivered DevOps solutions for multi cloud automotive project: DNS design, AWS to Azure migration, GitLab CI/GitHub Actions pipelines, and ArgoCD based GitOps deployments. - Reduced infrastructure costs via spot instances and Graviton CPUs managed with Karpenter. - Built event-driven serverless platform (AWS Lambda, Cognito, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch) using NodeJS & Go microservices. - Set up AWS Control Tower & Guard Duty with Terraform, improving governance and security posture. - Contributed to security testing research with industry vendors.
- Worked remotely full-time on B2B contract basis. - Relocated to Germany on sponsorship of the company to become an employee.
- Engaged with various clients, delivering end-to-end software and cloud solutions. - Delivered cloud-native projects on GCP (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, FastAPI, GraphQL). - Built authorization frameworks (Casbin), networking solutions (embedded Linux + C), and system integrations (punch-in/out devices). - Co-founded a startup building GNSS-enabled Android and underground utility mapping solutions.