Summary
Cloud Solutions Architect with 15+ years in DevOps, cloud platforms, and networking. Hands-on with AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes; multi-cloud certified at Professional and Specialty levels. Extensive background in SaaS/high-tech, automotive, retail, and telecommunications industries.
Experienced in leading multi-million dollar cloud migration and transformation projects, designing private and hybrid cloud solutions, and building high-availability platforms. Comfortable leading delivery as architect, team lead, or agile practitioner across cross-functional internal, partner, and customer teams.
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
Building and scaling the AWS engineering team, driving technical excellence, and ensuring delivery quality across customer engagements.
Role Focus
Staff management, hiring and onboarding engineers, conducting salary negotiations, mentoring team members, driving promotions, and fostering professional growth across the engineering practice.
Results & Impact
- Built and scaled the AWS engineering team through strategic hiring and talent development
- Established mentoring programs and career progression frameworks that improved retention and accelerated promotions
- Drove engineering excellence through standardized practices, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration
Senior Cloud Consulting Architect
Project: German Automobile Manufacturer (NDA)
Project Overview
The customer is a German automobile manufacturer.
Team Focus
Focused on customer obsession and enabling customers by consulting them on architecture, design, and implementation of their solutions in public and hybrid clouds.
Role Focus
Identifying and scoping opportunities that provide business value to the customers, leading the customers to the desired business outcomes, and leading a team through engagements.
Results & Impact
- Enhanced the existing Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) by implementing a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline, accelerating development and deployment efficiency
- Designed and integrated SAP with AWS AI/ML services to automate the transcription, summarization, and translation of customer interactions, significantly improving the customer support experience
- Architected and deployed a scalable, company-wide authorization framework that substantially reduced end-user latency and improved overall system responsiveness
Senior Cloud Consulting Architect
Project: Middle Eastern Government (NDA)
Project Overview
The customer is a Middle Eastern Government.
Team Focus
Focused on customer obsession and enabling customers by consulting them on architecture, design, and implementation of their solutions in private and hybrid clouds.
Role Focus
Identifying and scoping opportunities that provide business value to the customers, leading the customers to the desired business outcomes, and leading a team through engagements.
Results & Impact
- Led the discovery and architectural design of a private cloud tailored for a national data and AI initiative
- Delivered high-level Kubernetes architectures (Charmed, Tenzu, OpenShift) across VMware, OpenStack, and bare-metal environments
Amazon Web Services
DevOps Architect
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany · Remote
EKS Stream Lead
Project: German Automobile Manufacturer (NDA)
Project Overview
The customer is a German automobile manufacturer.
Team Focus
Creating an end-to-end platform to launch a cloud-based next-generation autonomous driving platform.
Role Focus
Leading internal, partner, and customer teams, as well as guiding cross-functional teams to achieve successful business outcomes. Designing the overall architecture and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure a streamlined and effective project execution.
Results & Impact
- Helped to win the project by participating in the Request for Proposal (RFP) process, contributing to the proposal, and presenting an architecture for the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) platform
- Developed a solution that played a pivotal role in the project's success, seamlessly replicating thousands of images and becoming an integral part of the overall delivery
- Successfully addressed and resolved the rate-limiting challenge during the delivery phase, ensuring the completion of the Statement of Work (SoW) and the overall success of the project
- Effectively navigated compliance constraints and convinced customers to sign a buy-in for an in-house developed solution
IT Operations Stream Lead
Project: German Automobile Manufacturer (NDA)
Project Overview
The customer is a German automobile manufacturer.
Team Focus
Creating IT operations management processes and refining existing application onboarding journey.
Role Focus
Gathering business requirements, identifying issues with the existing processes, and collaborating with essential stakeholders. Designing incident and security incident management processes, change request flows, escalation paths, and RACI matrices.
Results & Impact
- Created a new workstream by recognizing an opportunity
- Successfully developed and implemented new process flows that streamlined incident and security management processes, enhancing efficiency
- During real-world incidents, the refined processes demonstrated a 30% reduction in response time
- Revamped app onboarding journey and successfully eliminated bottlenecks associated with individual dependency, fostering enhanced collaboration among teams
- Achieved a notable increase in the average satisfaction score for onboarding, rising from 6 to 9, reflecting the positive impact of process improvements on user experience
Workstream Lead
Project: German Automobile Manufacturer (NDA)
Project Overview
The customer is a German automobile manufacturer.
Team Focus
Building a new platform to consolidate and transform customers' siloed aftersales system landscape.
Role Focus
Gathering business requirements, identifying issues with the existing processes, and collaborating with essential stakeholders. Leading a team, consolidating findings, and proposing solutions. Building trust with partner and customer teams.
Results & Impact
- Expedited the onboarding process, increasing AWS accounts from 10 to over 360 within six months
- Successfully deduplicated the codebase by approximately 20,000 lines, reducing the overall codebase by 30%
- Implemented 30 security guardrails and excluded sensitive data from the code, enhancing the platform's security posture and passing the security audit
- Introduced a comprehensive suite of over 60 security policies that effectively addressed 95% of the platform threats
- Integrated the solution with Security Hub, leading to a 99% reduction in reaction times and enabling the team to swiftly identify potential threats
- Equipped the team with near-real-time visibility, transitioning from weeks of response time to mere minutes, allowing proactive tackling of security concerns and ensuring platform protection
DevOps Consultant
Project: German Automobile Manufacturer (NDA)
Project Overview
The customer is a German automobile manufacturer.
Team Focus
Building a global Machine Learning & Operations initiative, seeking to expedite ML Industrialization worldwide.
Role Focus
Gathering business requirements, identifying issues with the existing processes, and collaborating with essential stakeholders. Designing the overall architecture, and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Results & Impact
- Successfully implemented the security solution, resolving over a hundred issues and reducing code vulnerabilities by 90%
- Applied this solution across 4 projects, enhancing security and code quality consistently
- Contributed to the technological advancement of the MLOps platform, reducing time to market for ML models by 95%
- Facilitated the rollout of the MLOps platform to 20+ business units, utilized by 100+ customer employees, and supported various AI/ML initiatives
EPAM Systems GmbH
Systems Architect
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany / Kyiv, Ukraine
Systems Architect
Project: Cloudmobility (cloudmobility.io)
Project Overview
Cloudmobility is a special-purpose private cloud for mobility and transportation powered by Daimler AG. The project's goal is to provide a complete ecosystem and a business-to-business solution for customers and partners, to ensure they benefit from the best experience around customer and vehicle data.
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
Leading the partner and customer teams to achieve successful business outcomes, designing the overall architecture, and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Results & Impact
- Designed the architecture and led a team in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Designed the deployment and upgrade process
- Created additional services that generated new revenue streams 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
Leading the engagement to achieve successful business outcomes, designing the overall architecture, and managing a team.
Results & Impact
- Designed and led the team in implementing a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solution for running UI tests
- Successfully reduced the time spent on running tests by 95%, significantly accelerating the customer's development lifecycle
Systems Architect
Project: Certascale (certascale.io, simplikube.com)
Project Overview
Certascale provides a complete, enterprise-grade, seamlessly integrated private cloud solution.
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 the implementation of a hybrid cloud solution based on Kubernetes, positioned as a competitor for enterprises in the public cloud space
- Designed and prototyped a custom Software-Defined Network (SDN) solution with the capability to integrate Kubernetes workloads with enterprise networks
- Led the team in designing and implementing a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)-style flat overlay network for the hybrid cloud
- Streamlined cluster installation by enabling offline installation and promoting a container-only approach
- Increased network throughput by 400%
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 and supporting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and zero-downtime deployment for the new DHL online shipping system. Additionally, the team was responsible for creating CI/CD infrastructure, containerizing applications, and building pipelines.
Role Focus
Designing the overall infrastructure architecture and deployment processes, understanding customer needs, and overseeing team management.
Results & Impact
- Designed, developed, and obtained stakeholder approval for a zero-downtime deployment architecture and the associated tooling
- Created state-of-the-art Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to meet customer business requirements
- Played a pivotal role in developing a sophisticated multi-step CI/CD solution with visualization, accessible to both developers and the customer's upper management
Senior Systems Engineer
Project: Canadian Tire (canadiantire.ca, fglsports.com)
Project Overview
Canadian Tire Corporation Limited is a Canadian retail company that operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure, and housewares sectors.
Team Focus
Empowering the customer by streamlining both development and deployment processes, developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and establishing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
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
- Significantly enhanced the deployment speed of the customer's e-commerce platform by approximately 90%, reducing it from 5 hours to just 20 minutes through the redesign of existing processes
- Streamlined the local development process, achieving a 70% reduction in build time
- Led the team in the successful adoption of DevOps methodologies
GlobalLogic Ukraine
Senior DevOps Engineer
Kyiv, Ukraine
Project: Private WiFi
Project Overview
Private WiFi is easy-to-use VPN software that protects clients' sensitive personal information whenever they are connected to a public WiFi network.
Team Focus
The creation of APIs, implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), development of additional services, and establishment of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Role Focus
Understanding customer needs, leading a cross-functional team, designing additional services that drive business growth, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automating deployment processes, establishing CI/CD pipelines, developing APIs, and integrating monitoring solutions to ensure system reliability and performance.
Results & Impact
- Designed and implemented a VPN-based solution offering value-added services such as ad-blocking, parental controls, real-time image compression, and antivirus scanning
- Achieved a 900% increase in server user capacity, significantly reducing operational expenses
- Led the migration of legacy APIs from Perl to PHP and developed new authentication APIs
- Guided the customer in adopting DevOps practices and tools, enhancing development efficiency and deployment automation
Earlier Career
IT distribution — network administration, monitoring, and SLA management
Telecom system integrator — IP/MPLS network optimization and design
Mobile operator — 3G service deployment and core IP network architecture
Telecom provider — IP/MPLS/Frame Relay infrastructure support and optimization
Education
National Aviation University
Kyiv, Ukraine
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Master's degree in Computer Science
National Aviation University
Kyiv, Ukraine
Bachelor's degree in Organization Management
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