Cloud Platform / DevOps Engineer / AI Explorer | PhD | AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform / ArgoCD

💬 Bringing order to chaos through code.
🚀 I build infrastructures that scale, recover, and evolve.
🌍 Based in Amsterdam, currently exploring the frontier between DevOps, GitOps, and AI/LLMOps.

I’m a systems engineer with 15+ years of experience in IT, focused on building resilient, scalable, and reproducible platforms — from bare-metal environments to cloud-native and AI-powered infrastructures.
I treat infrastructure as a product and pipelines as craft, always aiming for simplicity, automation, and transparency.

🛠️ DevOps & Cloud Engineering:

• AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, Control Tower, and more)
• Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts
• Terraform, Ansible, Packer, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab CI
• Docker, ECS, Kops, MicroK8S

📊 Monitoring & Observability:

• Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos
• ELK stack, Graylog, Zabbix
• Logging, alerting, self-healing with liveness/readiness probes

🔐 Security & Reliability:

• HashiCorp Vault, AWS KMS, encryption best practices
• High Availability, DDoS Protection, Incident Management

📦 Data & Warehousing:

• MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redis
• Snowflake, Hadoop, Hive, Airflow
• DataHub, API Gateways, DynamoDB

🧠 AI / LLMOps (current focus):

• Onyx GenAI Enterprise Search, LiteLLM, Claude Code
• GitOps & CI/CD pipelines for LLM infrastructure

• Platform Engineer @ Bitvavo Built and optimized crypto infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD.

• Senior DevOps Engineer @ DataArt / Experiment X CI/CD automation, IaC, Kubernetes migrations in cloud environments.

• Project Lead & DevOps @ Samson-opt / Rework From full-stack engineering to leading infra automation and observability setups.

📜 More details on my LinkedIn

• 📈 LLM Infrastructure Automation: CI/CD pipelines for 50+ wallet nodes, integrated Mongo Atlas & Snowflake
• 🌐 Kubernetes & Istio Migration: multi-account AWS setup, Argo Rollouts, mesh networking
• 🧪 A/B Deployment Rollouts: via Argo Rollouts, Prometheus metrics
• 📊 Unified Observability Stack: Grafana + Thanos dashboards and alerts
• 🔐 Security by Design: HAProxy self-healing, AWS KMS encryption, audit-compliant workflows

• Advancing in LLMOps and AI Infrastructure
• Contributing to open-source DevOps projects
• Developing curated repositories for DevOps Best Practices (see below 👇)

• 🔧 github.com/vlobachev — personal projects
• 📚 github.com/devops-best-practices — curated DevOps practices
• 🤖 github.com/best-aI-technologies — AI/LLM tech tools
• 💼 LinkedIn

“Treat infrastructure like a product. Treat pipelines like code. Automate everything that’s boring.”