Summary
Two decades of infrastructure work — hosting platforms, payment security, cloud migrations, and now my own ASN with BGP sessions across multiple exchanges. I've done the CTO thing, the security thing, and the "why is DNS broken at 3 AM" thing. Mostly I just like making systems work.
Experience
2024 — present
Independent
DevOps Consultant
- Stood up production infrastructure for event platforms on short notice
- Designed high-load setups for traffic-heavy sites
- Built CI/CD pipelines that get code from commit to production without drama
2021 — 2024
SmartFi
Head of Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer
Cryptocurrency lending, trading, and exchange platform
- Built and ran production infrastructure on Azure and DigitalOcean
- Set up CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
- Monitoring stack: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK
- Moved everything to Terraform and Ansible
2017 — 2021
Komodo Platform
Notary Network Advisor
Blockchain notary network operations
- Developed and maintained notary operators platform
- Designed high-availability setups for blockchain nodes
- Worked on network security and consensus hardening
2013 — 2017
Creative Telematics & Trade
Chief Technology Officer
Shared hosting and cloud services provider
- Built and scaled hosting clusters serving thousands of customers
- Created billing and service management platform from scratch
- Worked with virtually all TLD registries and major domain registrars
2008 — 2013
DengiOnline (QIWI Group)
Information Security Specialist / Senior Developer
Largest Russian online payments aggregator
- Maintained zero security breaches for 4 years on payment systems
- Developed integrations for 30+ payment systems
- Implemented PCI DSS compliance
- Coordinated security across teams with 40+ developers
2006 — 2012
Direct Systems
Founder
Electronic components trading platform
- Built e-commerce platform backend and trading systems
- Managed complete infrastructure stack
Education
2010
BSc Information Systems
SPb Electrotechnical University "LETI"
2008
Information Security Specialist
InfoTech College
2010
Systems Admin / DevOps, Frontend & Backend Development
RetraTech
2008
Networks Admin / Security
RetraTech
Certifications
2019
Certified Bitcoin Professional
C4
2016
CloudU Certified Professional
Rackspace
2014
IPv6 Sage
Hurricane Electric
Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS
Azure
GCP
DigitalOcean
Terraform
Ansible
CloudFormation
Networking
BGP
ASN Management
DN42
Internet Exchange
ISP Infrastructure
LIR
IPv6
DNS
VPN
Containers & CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Azure DevOps
GitHub Actions
ArgoCD
Languages
Bash
Python
Node.js
Go
Observability & Security
Grafana
Prometheus
ELK Stack
Splunk
Datadog
PCI DSS
Security Auditing
SSL/TLS
Data & OS
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
ClickHouse
Linux 22+ years
Networking
I also operate real internet infrastructure:
ASN Owner
Managing AS26954 — multihomed network across 4 locations
Internet Exchange
Peering across multiple Internet Exchange points
DN42 Network
Active participant in DN42 BGP experimentation network
LIR Operations
IP address allocation and RIPE database management
Languages
Russian
Native
English
Upper-Intermediate
Hebrew
Beginner
Interests
Vintage Hardware Repair
Microcontrollers
IoT Projects
Home Automation
Food Tourism
Puzzles & Collectibles