Role: DevOps Lead • Principal Release Engineer
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
📌 Summary
🥜 In a nutshell
DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience specializing in CI/CD and GitOps in Kubernetes.
Proven ability to build scalable, automated infrastructure and optimize workflows.
Passionate about aligning technical solutions with business needs.
👌 What challenges I solve
- Lead GitOps transformation and migration to Kubernetes (cloud or on-premises)
- Automate the enforcement of Kubernetes policies (Network Policies, PSS implementation, etc)
- Create a true CI/CD pipeline for any type of IT product
- Optimize infrastructure cost and observability
🧰 Skills
I’m always eager to learn new instruments, but here’s the list of tools I’ve worked with the most.
- CI/CD: GitLab CI, Circle CI, Github Actions, ArgoCD, FluxCD
- Containers: Kubernetes, Docker, Skopeo, Crane, Kaniko
- IaC: Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, Helm
- Security Checks: Kyverno, Gatekeeper, Trivy, Gitleaks, KICS
- Monitoring/Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, PagerDuty, Loki, ELK
- Programming Languages: Go, Python, Bash
- Cloud Providers: Azure, DigitalOcean
🔍 Professional Experience
DevOps Engineer ( Nov 2022 - Present )
Exness: global multi-asset broker.
- Migrated services to K8S with implementation of Gatekeeper policies to ensure PSS compliance.
- Mentored engineers and led key initiatives from concept to delivery.
- Configured realistic alerting with PagerDuty and Prometheus Alertmanager using IaC approach.
- Developed Helm charts and CI/CD processes; standardised GitLab CI templates.
- Managed ML infrastructure using AWS, Terraform and Airflow, optimised cost reduction.
Lead DevOps Engineer ( Jun 2021 - Sep 2022 )
Cindicator: automated crypto assets management with hybrid intelligence.
- Implemented GitOps approach, increasing fault tolerance and reliability.
- Provided architectural oversight and coached engineers in best practices.
- Integrated Vault secrets delivery, monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
- Optimised RabbitMQ and ClickHouse clusters.
- Developed Python-based analytics services and Terraform modules.
Senior Release Engineer ( Oct 2020 - Jun 2021 )
OZON: leading e-commerce platform in Russia.
- Reduced Time to Market by optimizing CI processes.
- Built Docker-less image management pipelines with Kaniko and Skopeo.
- Developed automation tools and dashboards in Grafana.
DevOps Engineer ( May 2019 - Oct 2020 )
BIOCAD: pharmaceutical and biotechnological company.
- Introduced GitLab CI, Kubernetes-based CI/CD, and GitFlow practices.
- Standardised container builds and vulnerability scanning.
- Managed Kubernetes clusters and Flux CD.
DevOps Engineer ( Aug 2018 - Apr 2019 )
DDG LLC: development company.
- Automated infrastructure with Ansible.
- Developed Gitlab CI pipelines.
- Managed Nginx, HAProxy, and OpenVPN integrations.
📚 Portfolio
🌐 Languages
- Russian (Native)
- English (Upper Intermediate / B2)