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MICHAEL TARASSOV

Multi-Cloud DevOps Engineer

OPEN
STACK
Terraform · K8sTerraform · Kubernetes
CLOUDS
AWS · Azure · GCP
EXPERIENCE
10+ years

RESUME

I build infrastructure that doesn't wake you up at 3 AM. Ten-plus years from telecom sysadmin to multi-cloud DevOps engineer — AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI in production, plus bare-metal Kubernetes on Talos: this very site runs on it.

EMPLOYMENT

2022 — NOW

Founder · Senior DevOps Engineer

CyberCapybara LLC · Kazakhstan

My own DevOps & security consultancy: cloud migrations, Kubernetes platforms, DevSecOps delivery — and cost optimization learned the honest way, with my own name on the budget line.

2024 — 2025

Senior DevOps Engineer

Just AI · Saint Petersburg

Shipped conversational-AI platforms into air-gapped IBM Cloud and on-prem enterprise environments — OpenShift, Terraform, hardened RBAC, fault-tolerant IPsec/BGP networking.

2020 — 2022

Senior DevOps Engineer

EPAM Systems · Saint Petersburg

Multi-cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients: Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins-as-code, Kubernetes administration, HA/DR, 24/7 on-call — and AWS cost optimization worth over $250K a month.

2014 — 2020

Lead System Administrator

Alma Telecommunications · Kazakhstan

Six and a half years keeping a telecom operator's own data centers alive: VMware, Proxmox, Bash/Python/Ansible automation, Zabbix — and DR drills we actually ran. The bare-metal foundation everything since is built on.

CERTIFICATIONS

MicrosoftAzure Solutions Architect Expert
MicrosoftAzure DevOps Engineer Expert
OracleOCI Architect Professional
OracleAutonomous Database Cloud Specialist
AWSSolutions Architect Associate
Red HatCertified System Administrator RHCSA

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EDUCATION

2009 — 2013

B.Sc. Photonics & Optoinformatics

TUSUR · Tomsk

Photonics and Optoinformatics, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics.

CLOUDS & PLATFORMS

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • OCI
  • IBM Cloud
  • Hetzner
  • EKS / GKE / AKS
  • Talos Linux
  • OpenShift
  • VMware / Proxmox

DELIVERY & AUTOMATION

  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • CloudFormation
  • Helm
  • ArgoCD / Flux
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins · Groovy
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker · buildx
  • Python / Bash / Go
  • C++

OBSERVABILITY & DATA

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Jaeger
  • Zabbix
  • ClickHouse
  • PostgreSQL HA
  • Kafka (KRaft)
  • MongoDB
  • Ceph / Longhorn
  • MinIO · S3

SECURITY & NETWORKING

  • Keycloak
  • OIDC / OAuth2
  • LDAP / AD
  • DevSecOps
  • Zero Trust
  • IPsec / VPN
  • BGP
  • Linux hardening
  • Backup & DR · Veeam

SERVICES

Cloud Cost Optimization

Your cloud bill is negotiable. Rightsizing, reserved capacity, architecture review — I find where the money leaks and stop it, with numbers to show.

Kubernetes Platform Engineering

From managed EKS, GKE and AKS to bare-metal Talos and OpenShift — including air-gapped and on-prem. GitOps delivery, observability and identity built in, not bolted on.

Cloud Infrastructure & Migrations

Multi-cloud architecture and IaC done right: Terraform and Ansible across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI. Migrations, HA/DR design, CI/CD — as code, reviewed, reproducible.

CONTACT

Open to: Senior / Lead DevOps · Platform · Remote

Hiring for a senior DevOps or platform role? Migrating to the cloud, or taming a bill that grew teeth? Either way — let's talk.

LET'S SOCIALIZE

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Michael Tarassov

[email protected]

t.me/tarassov_me

+7 782 829 40 06 · +7 958 111 40 06

Almaty, Kazakhstan