Mihail Fedorov

Senior DevOps Engineer · Infrastructure Lead · Security Specialist

Israel · [email protected]

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Summary

DevOps Engineer with 20+ years of experience in infrastructure automation, cloud platforms, and security. Proven track record leading infrastructure teams, architecting high-availability systems, and maintaining zero security breaches across critical financial platforms. Deep expertise in network engineering including BGP routing, ASN management, and Internet Exchange operations.

Experience

2024 — present
Independent
DevOps Consultant
  • Delivering rapid infrastructure deployments for event platforms with tight deadlines
  • Designing high-load architectures for traffic-intensive websites
  • Building CI/CD pipelines enabling fast iteration cycles from concept to production
2021 — 2024
SmartFi
Head of Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer
Cryptocurrency lending, trading, and exchange platform
  • Architected production infrastructure on Azure and DigitalOcean with high availability
  • Designed CI/CD pipelines for rapid deployments across multiple environments
  • Implemented monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK
  • Established Infrastructure as Code practices using 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
  • Contributed to network security protocols
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
  • Experience 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 Linux 22+ years

Networking

Beyond typical DevOps work, I operate real internet infrastructure:

ASN Owner
Managing AS26954 — multihomed network across 4 locations
Internet Exchange
Sponsor of BGP.exchange, connected to 11 IXPs
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