Dmitrii Z.

About Me

Dmitry is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of commercial experience in the SaaS Ops/Tech Ops/Infrastructure Ops/DevOps fields. He has substantial experience managing release cycles and delivery automation for production environments within both Linux and Windows environments using different monitoring tools and application performance assessment tools for improvements. He also has hands-on experience with Cloud-native services running in AWS and GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes in the delivery of high-quality solutions for clients. His top skills are AWS, GCP, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, Automation, and CI/CD pipelines.

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Work history

Kubiya.ai
Kubiya.ai
AI Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & SRE
2025 - 2026 (1 year)
Remote
  • Owned the design and delivery of automation platforms for infrastructure and operational workflows across Kubernetes and cloud environments.

  • Built and operated Kubernetes-based execution platforms for production workflows (deployments, scaling, incident handling)

  • Integrated systems across cloud APIs, CI/CD, and internal tools

AI/LLM APIs Langfuse SentryTerraformAmazon Web Services (AWS) OpenTelemetry LiteLLM LLM Agents
Apple by Virtasant
Apple by Virtasant
Site Reliability Engineer
2024 - 2025 (1 year)
Remote
  • Led migration to OpenTelemetry-based observability stack

  • Redesigned telemetry pipelines → improved signal quality, reduced alert noise

  • Built internal tooling integrating Slack → improved cross-team visibility

GrafanaPrometheusPagerDuty Python 3 Kubernetes (K8s) Telegraf
OpsGuru
OpsGuru
Solutions Architect
2020 - 2024 (4 years)
Canada
  • Led the architecture and delivery of cloud platforms and developer systems across AWS and GCP. Customer-facing role

  • Designed multi-region, production-grade infrastructure (AWS/GCP)

  • Worked directly with engineering teams to scale systems and reduce operational friction

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Kubernetes (EKS) Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) AWS Solutions Auto-scaling Cloud Infrastructure AWS Cloud Architecture TerraformPython 3 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) CI/CD Pipelines CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
Shuttle Holdings
Shuttle Holdings
Senior DevOps Engineer
2019 - 2019
, Remote
  • Participating in cryptocurrency startup exchange project as Senior DevOps Engineer from development to go live phase.

  • Offered expertise for software releases through CI pipeline support, infrastructure and process improvement using industry best practices.

  • Debugged and isolated application faults in highly complex integration environments within the Exchange.

Crossover for Work
Crossover for Work
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
2019 - 2019
, Remote
  • Actively participated and contributed to a Jenkins X RnD project; by creating a GitOps pipeline for a Java-based product of the client.

  • Handled the Kubernetes cluster on the Google Cloud Platform with Jenkins X as primary CI/CD tool and experimented with GitOps CD approach on the project.

  • Offered technical support on products in the production and staging environments and handled escalations from the Pager Duty and Monitoring teams.

Crossover for Work
Crossover for Work
L3 Customer Support Chief Architect
2018 - 2018
, Remote
  • Worked as part of the SaaS Import Database Consolidation and SaaS Import Lift and Shift teams of the client.

  • Provided expertise for the migration of the company's virtual machines from legacy AWS infrastructure into a Central VmWare environment.

  • Managed the movement and consolidation of various databases from the customer's legacy infrastructure into a Central Database running on a separate AWS account.

Aurea Software
Aurea Software
AWS DevOps Engineer
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
, Remote
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for different products acquired by the company; refactoring "old style" build pipelines to new dockerized infrastructure ( Docker/Kubernetes ).

  • Provided technical support for migrating customer's software into a new infrastructure with a centralized ecosystem to comply with internal company standards.

  • Followed best DevOps practices and architecture approaches in designing reliable CI/CD solutions for customers.

DataArt
DataArt
DevOps/ Configuration Manager
2015 - 2017 (2 years)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Regularly participated in resolving outages based on run-books or product knowledge.

  • Effectively developed, improved, and thoroughly documented all operational practices and procedures on client projects.

  • Efficiently followed documented processes for troubleshooting, recovery, and service restoration processes on all projects for clients.

Grid Dynamics
Grid Dynamics
DevOps Engineer
2014 - 2014
Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Worked on the Core DevOps team building a CI/CD pipeline for a 9B$ eCommerce store.

  • Efficiently executed and pushed continuous product improvement initiatives along with CI/CD best DevOps practices on developments for clients.

  • Regularly provide escalated, highly complex technical support to customers by investigating and resolving systems-related matters of significance on behalf of Grid Dynamics.

i-Free
i-Free
System Administrator
2011 - 2014 (3 years)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Effectively performed deep dives on all outages and undertook root cause analysis on systems to improve the uptime.

  • Adhered to all internal processes for incident and service request resolutions and change management through proper execution and documentation.

  • Regularly recorded and kept track of all outages with key purpose to improve reliability over time.

i-Free
i-Free
Technical Support Engineer
2008 - 2011 (3 years)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Provided technical support 24/7/365 for the operation of the services of i-Free.

  • Implemented and evaluated all monitoring alerts capable of differentiating between valid and false positive alerts.

  • Provided technical support for troubleshooting and debugging of known and on-demand production issues.

Showcase

Senior DevOps Engineer - Kohls
Senior DevOps Engineer - Kohls

Kohl’s Corporation (Kohl’s) operates family-oriented department stores that sell apparel, footwear and accessories for women, men and children; soft home products, such as sheets and pillows, and housewares. Participated as a member of the CI/CD Core team, who maintained a stack of Jenkins, Gerrit, Nexus components supporting 3500 developers collaborating together on solutions.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Ocado
Senior DevOps Engineer - Ocado

Ocado is the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket. It has a quarter-of-a-million active customers and 15% share of the UK online grocery market. Run and supported multiple CoreOS clusters in OpenStack environments.

Owner/Maintainer - Gotli
Owner/Maintainer - Gotli

Created and dockerized the URL shortener, and made it cloud friendly and ready to run within the Kubernetes cluster.

Owner/Maintainer - Ansi-kube-aws
Owner/Maintainer - Ansi-kube-aws

Created Ansible playbooks to prepare the AWS infrastructure and bootstrap kubernetes cluster.

Owner/Maintainer - Terrakub
Owner/Maintainer - Terrakub

This is a Terraform code for the deployment of the microservice app in k8s cluster federation.

Senior DevOps Engineer - The Rampart Exchange
Senior DevOps Engineer - The Rampart Exchange

The Rampart Exchange is a digital marketplace where traders can buy and sell different cryptocurrencies. It is an online platform that acts as an intermediary between buyers and sellers of cryptocurrencies. Participated in the development of the crypto exchange project; working from the conception to the go-live phase of the solution.

Senior DevOps Engineer - IRIS
Senior DevOps Engineer - IRIS

The IRIS Guest Experience Platform (GXP) provides users with the tools and technology to digitise their businesses in a number of ways. iRiS allows Hotels and Restaurants to have more integrations and systems than almost any other business and enables them to bring all of that information together into one place for guests. Designed CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity and Octopus Deploy stack and created multiple pipelines from scratch.

Education

Education
MSc. Computer Science and Engineering
Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
2005 - 2011 (6 years)