guest@nick-sh-devops: ~ (zsh)
Nick Sh.

Nick Sh.

Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE
/**
* 6+ years experience in building HA Kubernetes platforms.
* Expert in Infrastructure as Code & Cost Optimization.
* "I automate things so I can be lazy."
*/
Uptime: 6+ Years
English: B2 (Upper-Int)
Status: Open to Work
➜ ~ skills --pretty
orchestration
Kubernetes (Vanilla, EKS, VK) OpenShift Helm
cloud
AWS Yandex VK Cloud OpenStack VMware
iac
Terraform Ansible Packer
ci_cd
GitLab CI Jenkins ArgoCD FluxCD
observability
Prometheus Grafana Loki Zabbix
data
PostgreSQL Kafka Redis ETCD Vault
Show raw JSON 
{
  "orchestration": ["Kubernetes (Vanilla, EKS, VK)", "OpenShift", "Helm"],
  "cloud": ["AWS", "Yandex", "VK Cloud", "OpenStack", "VMware"],
  "iac": { "tool": "Terraform", "config": "Ansible", "build": "Packer" },
  "ci_cd": ["GitLab CI", "Jenkins", "ArgoCD", "FluxCD"],
  "observability": ["Prometheus", "Grafana", "Loki", "Zabbix"],
  "data": ["PostgreSQL", "Kafka", "Redis", "ETCD", "Vault"]
}
➜ ~ cat experience.log
Senior DevOps Engineer
Jan 2024 - Feb 2026 | Major E-commerce Retailer
  • Designed and deployed 8 vanilla Kubernetes clusters from scratch (Prod/Stage/Dev), creating a scalable foundation for microservices migration.
  • Improved configuration management efficiency by 40% for 200+ servers by implementing dynamic Ansible inventory via Consul.
  • Reduced new engineer onboarding time from 2 weeks to 3 days by creating comprehensive LLD/Runbooks for K8s & Packer.
  • Automated OS image baking (Packer + GitLab CI), eliminating manual toil and ensuring 100% environment consistency.
  • Documented and tested 15+ Disaster Recovery scenarios for ETCD clusters, minimizing potential downtime risks.
DevOps Engineer
Dec 2022 - Dec 2023 | Data Platforms / FinTech
  • Executed Zero-Downtime migration of 100+ environments to VK Cloud using blue-green traffic switching.
  • Reduced environment migration time from 2 hours to 20 minutes by architecting parallel GitLab CI child pipelines.
  • Implemented intelligent alerting (Prometheus -> Messenger), reducing incident response time (MTTD) from 20 to 5 minutes.
  • Built a stateful replication system for MinIO, Kafka, and Postgres, ensuring zero data loss during migrations.
DevOps Engineer
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022 | AI MedTech Startup
  • Ensured HIPAA compliance by implementing comprehensive encryption (KMS, TLS) and auditing (CloudTrail) in AWS.
  • Optimized cloud infrastructure costs by 35% via rightsizing, spot instances, and elimination of idle resources.
  • Designed a centralized API Gateway (AWS APIGW + Nginx) handling traffic for dozens of microservices.
  • Remediated 90% of container vulnerabilities by introducing multi-stage builds and Trivy scanning.
DevOps Engineer
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021 | Banking Technology / FinTech
  • Designed a fault-tolerant PostgreSQL cluster with streaming replication, ensuring 99.99% availability.
  • Implemented KEDA-based auto-scaling for Kafka consumers, reducing processing latency by 25% during peak loads.
  • Optimized GitOps workflow on FluxCD, reducing manual deployments and config errors by 90%.
  • Secured network communication with IPSec tunnels (IKEv2) for isolated banking segments.
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