About Me

I am an Infrastructure Platform Engineer with a passion for solving complex problems. My focus is on architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in the cloud.

I focus on cloud architecture - I hold Professional and Associate level certifications in both GCP and AWS clouds, accompanied by years of hands on experience. Kubernetes, Terraform, and linux skills are a must for any infrastructure engineer as well as decent coding skills - in my case Bash, Python and Golang.

Systems observability is also non-negotiable. I have some hands on experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana and Datadog. In addition to that, I have operated a Petabyte scale Hadoop cluster and touched Kafka and Spark.

Work Highlights

Let me provide you with a few examples of my work:

  1. Terraform Database Module Overhaul:
  • Led a team of Infrastructure Engineers in delivering an end-to-end overhaul of a Terraform database module.
  • This effort included proof of concept (PoC) work and the creation of an entirely new module to replace the old one, addressing its shortcomings.
  • Integrated monitoring of databases in Datadog and Grafana, and developed migration scripts to move ~300 Cloud SQL databases to the new module.
  1. Trino Compute Cluster Deployment:
  • Managed and performed the end-to-end delivery of a Trino compute cluster.
  • Designed a system architecture allowing tenants to create their autoscaling Trino clusters with a simple configuration file push and Jenkins pipeline trigger.
  • Deployed Trino clusters with Superset query interfaces, connected to Hadoop clusters as needed.
  • Utilized Jenkins for pipeline execution and Terraform for infrastructure as code deployment, configuring AWS Load Balancers and Autoscaling groups.
  • Created AMIs with cloud-init bootstrapping scripts using Ansible and Packer.
  1. Offline Trading Platform Matching Engine:
  • Developed a matching engine for an offline trading platform, focusing on backtesting quantitative trading strategies using Python.

Previous Experience

In my previous roles, I worked on various projects before my studies in Applied Mathematics and my involvement in startups. I even used my Bachelor’s degree in Cybernetics and Robotics to work on industrial automation systems.

Notably, I contributed to the upgrade of a Propylene Gas Turbine in a Russian refinery in Kstovo and participated in the upgrade of the Eldfisk II Oil Rigging Platform off the coast of Stavanger, Norway.

Interests

Beyond engineering, I am passionate about sports, including Olympic Weightlifting, Mountaineering, and Tennis. In my free time, I enjoy reading about philosophy, economics, geopolitics, and, of course, cyberpunk literature.