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Hello, I'm Alexey Ponomarev

DevOps Engineer with 16+ years in IT and 8+ years focused on AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, and production reliability. I build highly available, fault-tolerant systems and love solving complex infrastructure problems.

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Professional Summary

Infrastructure as Code

Specializing in Terraform and CloudFormation to build reproducible, auditable, and version-controlled infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and regions.

Kubernetes & Containers

Deep experience with EKS, Docker, ArgoCD for GitOps-driven container orchestration at scale.

CI/CD Automation

Building robust pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Atlantis for safe, fast deployments.

Observability & SRE

Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ELK/EFK — building full-stack monitoring and alerting for production reliability.

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Core Skills

Cloud & AWS

EC2 S3 VPC IAM EKS ECS RDS DynamoDB Route53 Transit Gateway Lambda API Gateway CloudWatch SNS SES

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform CloudFormation Atlantis

Containers & Orchestration

Docker Kubernetes AWS EKS ECS ArgoCD

CI/CD

GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins ArgoCD Atlantis

Observability & Monitoring

Prometheus Grafana VictoriaMetrics ELK EFK

Scripting & Databases

Bash Python PostgreSQL MySQL Redis

Networking

VPC Design ALB/NLB VPN DNS Transit Gateway

Practices & Methodology

Infrastructure as Code GitOps Immutable Infrastructure SRE HA/FT Design
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Experience

Wallarm

Senior DevOps Engineer
Jun 2024 — Present Current

API Security Platform — wallarm.com

  • ⚡ Designed and optimized CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, reducing deployment time and improving release stability
  • ☸️ Built and maintained Kubernetes environments across AWS and other cloud providers, improving system scalability and fault tolerance
  • 🏗️ Implemented Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure provisioning, enabling reproducible and auditable deployments
  • 📊 Improved observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, EFK), increasing visibility and reducing incident resolution time
  • 🔒 Automated Docker image builds and vulnerability scanning, strengthening container security posture
  • ☁️ Supported multi-cloud integrations (AWS, GCP, Azure) and enterprise platforms (Cloudflare, MuleSoft, IBM)
KubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsGitLab CIPrometheusGrafanaDocker

ClearScale

Senior DevOps Engineer
Feb 2020 — Jun 2024 4+ years

AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — clearscale.com

  • 🚀 Led migration of large-scale production workloads from on-premise to AWS, designing HA and fault-tolerant architectures
  • 🐳 Dockerized and modernized hundreds of services, enabling Kubernetes-based deployments
  • 🏗️ Designed and implemented Terraform-based infrastructure for multiple enterprise clients
  • ⚙️ Built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) to automate application delivery across environments
  • ☸️ Deployed and supported Kubernetes clusters in multi-account AWS environments
  • 👥 Participated in technical interviews and onboarding of DevOps engineers
AWSTerraformKubernetesDockerJenkinsGitHub ActionsEKS

ZenSoft

DevOps Engineer
Nov 2016 — Feb 2020 3+ years

Custom Software Development Services — zensoft.io

  • ☁️ Maintained and improved AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, Beanstalk, VPC)
  • ⚡ Built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, TeamCity
  • 🔄 Automated environment provisioning using Docker and infrastructure scripts
  • 🔐 Established VPN connectivity between office infrastructure and AWS
  • ✅ Reduced deployment errors by implementing automated pre-release testing environments
AWSDockerJenkinsGitLab CIVPNBash

ExtraLine Ltd.

Systems / Billing Engineer
Nov 2007 — Nov 2016 9 years

ISP service provider — homeline.kg

  • 🌐 Designed and maintained network and server infrastructure for ISP environment
  • 🔧 Modernized network infrastructure, improving reliability and security
  • 💳 Migrated legacy billing system to BGBilling 5.0 and developed billing extensions in Java
  • 📞 Implemented Asterisk-based telephony system
LinuxNetworkingJavaAsteriskVoIP
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AWS Certifications

AWS DevOps Engineer

Professional
CI/CD, Automation, Monitoring, Security, HA Systems

Solutions Architect

Professional
Architecture Design, Cost Optimization, Migration

Advanced Networking

Specialty
VPC, VPN, Direct Connect, Route53, CloudFront
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Education

Kyrgyz State University of Building, Transport and Architecture

Faculty — Institution of New Information Technologies

Major — Information Technologies in Business

2004 — 2009
// get_in_touch

Let's Work Together

I'm always open to new opportunities and interesting projects. Feel free to reach out!

Email

braekneck@gmail.com

Telegram

@braekneck

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/drongo

Location

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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