Experience

DevOps Engineer

Samwise builds trustworthy software solutions that enable premium media groups
to generate incremental revenue and stay relevant in an AI-driven world.
Apr 2025 - Feb 2026
Remote / Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Ain Tohvri CTO at Samwise GmbH
Alejandro Murcia Senior DevOps Engineer at Samwise GmbH

Development, implementation, and optimization of various:

  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Docker environments for developers
  • Edge-side optimizations (Fastly VCL, Web Application Firewall)
  • Configuring metric-based alerts

DevOps Engineer

Flant: DevOps-as-a-Service and Managed Kubernetes that runs anywhere
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Remote / Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Anton Peretrukhin DevOps Team Lead

Maintenance and optimization of client infrastructure

Frontend Engineer

Savings United GmbH: the global leader in couponing
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
Remote / Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Dmitrii Lunkin Front-End Tech Lead
Yuri Kovalev Full-Stack developer

I worked in the agile White Labels team,
implementing product features on partners’ domains (Independent, LA Times, Wired, Telegraph, etc.), focusing on building maintainable and scalable code while keeping good performance metrics.

Maintained code related to E2E testing within deployment and development.

Contributed to the development of features for The Independent and Earthmark

DevOps engineer, Web Developer

Freelance
Feb 2021 - Jan 2025
Remote / Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Layout implementation and integration with CMS.

Development of additional functionality for CMS (MODX, WordPress, custom solutions).

Linux server administration.

Network equipment administration (firewalls, routers, switches).

Working with virtualization systems: Hyper-V, Proxmox, LXC, Docker.

Building and administrating distributed Kubernetes clusters.

Workflow automation using GitHub/GitLab Actions, CircleCI, and scripts in various programming languages.

Skills

  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • YAML
  • VCL
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • PostgresQL
  • AlloyDB
  • E2E testing
  • Pair programming
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Vue3
  • Next.js
  • Jest
  • ESLint
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • CSS Modules
  • SCSS
  • Ruby
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • OKR
English B1, Russian native

What I value most:

  • Using the products I help to build
  • Frequent, small releases and short time to market
  • Improving DevOps and developer experience (testing, linting, CI/CD, monitoring, design systems)
  • Working in a self-sufficient team
  • Transparency at all levels

Expertise

Reliability & operations: Stress and load testing (concurrent requests, cache/response monitoring). Zero-downtime deployment scripts. Health checks with automatic rollback. DB backup/restore around deployments. Incident notifications (Slack, Telegram).

Infrastructure & cloud: Kubernetes (kubeadm, Deckhouse/DKP, Helm), containerd, Docker. Google Cloud (Cloud Run, Artifact Registry, Cloud SQL, gcloud). Ingress (Kong, Nginx). Metrics (metrics-server, Grafana, Prometheus, DataDog). Linux system configuration and scripting.

CI/CD & automation: GitHub Actions (build, deploy, security scan, conditional deployments by git diff). Custom GitHub Actions (VCL linter for Fastly, Telegram notifier with GitHub API). Docker multi-arch builds (Buildx, QEMU), GHA cache. GitLab CI (runners, docker-based pipelines).

Frameworks, CMS: Laravel, WordPres, MODX, Vue3, Ruby-On-Rails