Summary
Cloud Solutions Architect and Head of AWS Engineering. 15+ years across DevOps, cloud architecture, networking, and programming. Former AWS Professional Services; led multi-million dollar transformations in automotive, government, and retail. Designing and delivering GenAI solutions, including multi-agent architectures, RAG pipelines, and AI/ML integrations with enterprise systems. Certified at Professional and Specialty levels across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Conference speaker on DevOps and cloud engineering.
Experience
Rackspace Technology
Head of AWS Engineering
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany · Remote
Head of AWS Engineering
Project: AWS Engineering Practice
Project Overview
Leading the AWS Engineering practice at Rackspace Technology.
Team Focus
Delivering AWS consulting, architecture, and implementation projects for enterprise customers across the DACH region.
Role Focus
Building and scaling the AWS engineering team from hiring through retention - conducting salary negotiations, driving promotions, mentoring team members, establishing career frameworks, running knowledge-transfer sessions, and maintaining delivery standards across all active customer projects.
Results & Impact
- Grew and led a double-digit AWS engineering team through hiring cycles, onboarding, and talent development
- Established mentoring programs and career frameworks that reduced attrition and built a promotion pipeline, ensuring project continuity across customer engagements
- Led cross-functional knowledge transfer sessions across DACH and EMEA covering Agentic AI on Bedrock, local LLMs, CI/CD shift-left, quantum computing, and NAS
- Defined and rolled out engineering standards (code review, IaC patterns, documentation) adopted across all delivery teams
Senior Cloud Consulting Architect
Project: German Automobile Manufacturer (NDA)
Project Overview
Multi-cloud consulting engagement covering CI/CD modernisation, AI/ML integration with SAP, and a company-wide authorization framework across AWS and Azure.
Team Focus
Consulting the customer on multi-cloud architecture (AWS + Azure), designing CI/CD pipelines, and integrating AI/ML services into existing SAP workflows.
Role Focus
Owning the technical relationship across AWS and Azure workloads, scoping AI/ML integration opportunities, and leading a delivery team through multi-cloud engagements.
Results & Impact
- Designed a multi-agent, multi-tier AI architecture on Amazon Bedrock optimized for low latency and minimal context degradation, using fine-tuned models and OpenSearch as the vector store
- Integrated SAP with AWS AI/ML services to automate transcription, summarization, and translation of customer interactions, with Bedrock Flows classifying incoming requests for downstream processing
- Led the modernization of the development workflow, migrating from GitLab to GitHub and implementing end-to-end CI/CD automation with shift-left security testing, linting, and peer review enforcement
- Architected and deployed a company-wide authorization framework serving 50k+ employees, eliminating intermittent 4xx/5xx errors and reducing end-user latency
Senior Cloud Consulting Architect
Project: SDAIA - National Data and AI Initiative Press release
Project Overview
Greenfield private cloud design for Saudi Arabia's national data and AI authority, targeting on-premises Kubernetes orchestration at scale.
Team Focus
Designing a greenfield private cloud platform on OpenStack/VMware with Kubernetes orchestration for Saudi Arabia's national AI initiative.
Role Focus
Running discovery workshops for a greenfield private cloud, evaluating OpenShift vs vanilla Kubernetes for the target workloads, and producing the architectural decision records.
Results & Impact
- Selected the target Kubernetes platform from 4 candidates (Charmed K8s, Tanzu, OpenShift, vanilla) across OpenStack, VMware, and bare-metal, delivering the architectural decision record
- Designed GPU sharing and multi-tenant isolation strategies for Kubernetes-based AI/ML workloads at scale
Senior Cloud Architect
Project: Munster Technological University - Quantum Cloud Platform on AWS Press release
Project Overview
AWS landing zone and quantum computing platform for a university research programme using Amazon Braket.
Team Focus
Enabling the university to leverage AWS quantum computing services for research and education.
Role Focus
Leading discovery workshops, designing the cloud architecture, and providing cost analysis for quantum workloads.
Results & Impact
- Led discovery workshops, performed Amazon Braket cost calculations, and designed the landing zone architecture - adopted and deployed by the university's research team
- Enabled multiple research groups to run quantum workloads on AWS for the first time
Amazon Web Services
DevOps Architect
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany · Remote
EKS Stream Lead
Project: BMW and Qualcomm automated driving platform re:Invent talk Blog post
Project Overview
Cloud-based autonomous driving platform built jointly with BMW and Qualcomm - container orchestration at scale for next-generation ADAS workloads.
Team Focus
Creating an end-to-end platform to launch a cloud-based next-generation autonomous driving platform.
Role Focus
Owned the EKS platform architecture and IaC implementation, led the RFP response, and coordinated delivery across AWS, BMW, and Qualcomm teams.
Results & Impact
- Won the project through the RFP process - contributed the proposal and presented the Amazon EKS platform architecture
- Built an image replication solution handling thousands of container images, adopted as a core component of the delivery
- Diagnosed and resolved a container registry bottleneck that was blocking delivery, designing the migration path to production
- Mentored engineers across AWS through the formal mentoring program, helped an ML engineer reskill and transition into a DevOps role
IT Operations Stream Lead
Project: Mercedes-Benz Aftersales: A cloud-first transformation re:Invent talk
Project Overview
IT operations process design for Mercedes-Benz's cloud-first aftersales transformation - incident management, onboarding, and security response.
Team Focus
Creating IT operations management processes and refining the existing application onboarding journey for the aftersales platform.
Role Focus
Defining incident, security-incident, and change-request processes from scratch - designing escalation paths, RACI matrices, and SLA targets in collaboration with Mercedes platform and security teams.
Results & Impact
- Identified an unaddressed gap in IT operations and created a new workstream, designing incident and security management process flows that reduced response time by 30%
- Revamped the app onboarding journey, eliminating bottlenecks and increasing satisfaction scores from 6 to 9
Workstream Lead
Project: Mercedes-Benz Aftersales: A cloud-first transformation re:Invent talk
Project Overview
Platform consolidation for Mercedes-Benz's aftersales systems - scaling from single-digit to hundreds of AWS accounts with security guardrails and IaC.
Team Focus
Building a new platform to consolidate and transform the customer's siloed aftersales system landscape into a unified, security-hardened AWS environment.
Role Focus
Owning the Terraform/CloudFormation codebase for hundreds of AWS accounts, coordinating security-guardrail rollout with partner teams, and acting as the trust bridge between Mercedes and AWS delivery.
Results & Impact
- Scaled AWS accounts from single digits to hundreds within six months
- Deduplicated ~20,000 lines of code, reducing the codebase by 30%
- Implemented dozens of security guardrails and removed sensitive data from the code, passing the security audit
- Introduced security policies covering 95% of platform threats and integrated with Security Hub, cutting threat reaction time from weeks to minutes
DevOps Consultant
Project: BMW Group - AI Platform re:Invent talk
Project Overview
Global MLOps platform on AWS SageMaker for BMW Group - industrialising machine learning across dozens of business units.
Team Focus
Building a global Machine Learning & Operations initiative, seeking to expedite ML Industrialization worldwide.
Role Focus
Designing the IaC architecture for an MLOps platform on SageMaker, implementing security scanning across multiple project repos, and onboarding business units onto the platform.
Results & Impact
- Implemented a security scanning solution across 4 projects, resolving 100+ issues and reducing code vulnerabilities by 90%
- Rolled out the MLOps platform to dozens of business units, used by hundreds of employees across AI/ML initiatives
EPAM Systems GmbH
Systems Architect
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany / Kyiv, Ukraine
Systems Architect
Project: Cloudmobility (cloudmobility.io) Case study
Project Overview
Daimler's private cloud platform for mobility and vehicle data, built on bare-metal with Kubernetes orchestration.
Team Focus
Enabling Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across all levels of the cloud (system, compute, storage, network, etc.), creating Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure, containerizing applications, building pipelines, and deploying them in Kubernetes.
Role Focus
Architecting the IaC layers (Terraform + Ansible) for the private cloud stack, coordinating between Daimler's platform team and the EPAM delivery team, and designing the upgrade/rollback process.
Results & Impact
- Architected the IaC stack (Terraform + Ansible) spanning compute, network, and storage layers
- Designed a zero-downtime rolling upgrade process for the Kubernetes control plane and tenant workloads
- Built and shipped additional platform services (ML pipelines, serverless workloads, container sandboxing) that opened a new revenue line for the customer
Systems Architect
Project: Robert Bosch GmbH (etas.com)
Project Overview
ETAS offers comprehensive solutions for the development of automotive embedded software in the application fields of software engineering, test and validation, measurement, calibration, diagnostics, middleware, and cybersecurity.
Team Focus
Streamlining the test and Business Intelligence (BI) processes for the stakeholders.
Role Focus
Designing the Docker-based test automation architecture, managing a small team, and interfacing with Bosch stakeholders to align the solution with their BI reporting requirements.
Results & Impact
- Designed and led the team in implementing a CI/CD solution for UI tests
- Reduced test execution time by 95%
Systems Architect
Project: Certascale (certascale.io, simplikube.com)
Project Overview
Private cloud product built on Kubernetes with custom SDN, positioned as an on-premises alternative to AWS/GCP for enterprise customers.
Team Focus
Creating a full-fledged hybrid cloud by implementing a comprehensive end-to-end solution, covering infrastructure, network, storage, compute, Continuous Integration (CI), user interface (UI), and monitoring.
Role Focus
Designing the overall architecture, creating network-specific architecture, prototyping APIs for microservices, obtaining buy-in on new features from stakeholders, engaging with customers, and managing the team.
Results & Impact
- Designed and led implementation of a Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud positioned as an enterprise alternative to public cloud, supporting air-gapped deployments
- Prototyped a custom SDN with a GCP VPC-style flat overlay network, integrating Kubernetes workloads with enterprise networks
- Eliminated kernel networking bottlenecks with DPDK, increasing throughput by 400%
Resource Manager
Project: EPAM Systems, Inc. (Ukraine)
Project Overview
Engineering people management across multiple delivery teams and customer projects.
Team Focus
Delivering infrastructure and DevOps projects across multiple customer engagements.
Role Focus
Managing engineer performance and career development, conducting one-on-ones, preparing promotion cases for assessment committees, and coordinating staffing across customer projects.
Results & Impact
- Grew the team 4x from 5 to 20 engineers, structured into two delivery sub-teams
- Mentored a junior engineer from the student lab to a team-lead promotion, four levels through assessment committees
- Drove multiple promotions across career levels and secured competitive compensation adjustments by building cases and presenting to assessment committees
Lead Systems Engineer
Project: DHL (dhl.com)
Project Overview
DHL is the global market leader in the logistics industry with 1.5B parcels delivered per year.
Team Focus
Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and zero-downtime deployment for the new DHL online shipping system, creating CI/CD infrastructure, containerizing applications, and building pipelines.
Role Focus
Designing the overall infrastructure architecture and deployment processes, understanding customer needs, and managing the team.
Results & Impact
- Designed and obtained stakeholder approval for a zero-downtime deployment architecture and tooling
- Developed a multi-step CI/CD pipeline with visualization for developers and upper management
Senior Systems Engineer
Project: Canadian Tire (canadiantire.ca, fglsports.com) Press release
Project Overview
Canadian Tire Corporation Limited is a Canadian retail company that operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure, and housewares sectors.
Team Focus
Building Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines for the e-commerce platform, containerizing applications, and streamlining the development and deployment processes.
Role Focus
Creating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts, automating deployments, implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and providing leadership for the team.
Results & Impact
- Reduced e-commerce platform deployment time by 90% (from 5 hours to 20 minutes) by redesigning the process
- Led the team in adopting DevOps practices, cutting local build time by 70%
Earlier Career
VPN software - designed value-added services, 900% server capacity increase, API migration from Perl to PHP
IT distribution - network administration, monitoring, and SLA management, continued as consultancy until Jul 2013
Telecom system integrator - IP/MPLS network optimization and design
Mobile operator - 3G service deployment, core IP network architecture, continued as consultancy until Jul 2013
Telecom provider - IP/MPLS/Frame Relay infrastructure support and optimization
Projects & Speaking
Open Source & Projects
- personal-cv-static-site — This portfolio site with CI/CD and ATS-friendly output
- ocis-storage-dumper — CLI tool to export ownCloud Infinite Scale storage data
- OSGenome — Genomic data analysis and visualization tool
- custom-k8s-sdn-demo — Custom Software-Defined Networking implementation for Kubernetes
Conference Speaking
- XP Days Ukraine - Speaker — Talk: Building better CI using Jenkins pipelines
- DevOps Expert Day - Speaker — Talk: Kubernetes as a microservices orchestration tool
- IT Weekend Kyiv - Speaker — Talk: Scalable containers with Apache Mesos and DC/OS
Education
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