Pavlo Bondarenko
DevOps Architect
Summary
- DevOps Architect with 10 years of experience in infrastructure optimisation and automation. Expert in multi-cloud and on-premise environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, bare-metal), container orchestration, and GitOps practices.
- Reduced cloud costs by 30% through KPI-driven resource optimisation and infrastructure improvements, saving $200K+ annually across 50+ production clusters while maintaining 99.9% uptime.
- Led design of disaster recovery strategies and multi-region architecture. Reduced TTM for new envs from 2 weeks to under 1 hour.
- Architected zero-downtime deployment using custom Kubernetes operators (Golang/Metacontroller) implementing Blue/Green strategy, eliminating downtime for 100+ e-commerce sites processing $2M+ daily.
Skills
ProgrammingPython, Golang
AI toolsKhoj, Ollama, Jupyter
Cloud & CDNAWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare
ContainersGKE, EKS, ECS, self-hosted K8s, Helm, Kustomize
OrchestrationAnsible, Rundeck, Garden, Warden
IaCTerraform, Terragrunt
CI/CDGitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GoCD
GitOpsArgo CD, Flux
ObservabilityGrafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Loki
Data & MessagingMySQL, MariaDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, Elasticsearch, MongoDB
LanguageEnglish C1, German A2
Experience
DevOps Engineer - Vaimo
May 2023 – Present
E-commerce platform (Magento) · AWS, GCP, Azure, Go, Python
- Achieved significant cost savings by implementing KPIs (request-to-capacity, usage-to-request, system resources-to-all), optimising resource allocation
- Minimized downtime and cost by implementing Kubernetes operator in Metacontroller and Python
- Developed Golang Blue/Green deployment controller for Magento and Redis in Kubernetes
- Implemented controller-runtime watch on external ConfigMaps to trigger reconciliation, ensuring Operator reacts to configuration changes without manual intervention
- Led disaster recovery operations and team training for Kubernetes/Filestore restoration
- Created technical epics and coordinated cross-team implementation efforts
- Directed rapid Thanos implementation for long-term metrics storage
Site Reliability Engineer - Takeoff
Apr 2021 – Mar 2023
Automated grocery fulfillment · GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Clojure, Go, Python
- Built on-demand deployment solution using Garden, Terraform, Terragrunt
- Automated GCP disk cleanup with Python
- Implemented Gatekeeper constraints and OPA policies
- Implemented notifications on GKE upgrades in Slack via Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Python, Terraform
- Automated configuration updates with Reloader, Flux and Kapitan to rollout changes in ConfigMap/Secrets
DevOps Engineer - Zoral
Aug 2020 – Apr 2021
Fintech and OCR solutions · AWS, Kubernetes, .NET, Java, Python
- Migrated 20+ microservices from AWS ECS to EKS on Fargate using Helm
- Developed Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure and EKS cluster with GitLab executors on Spot instances
DevOps Engineer - Intellias
Jan 2018 – Aug 2020
Delivery engineering platform for eCommerce and IoT; HERE Geocoding & Search · AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform
- Developed declarative Jenkins pipelines for parallel Docker builds
- Implemented AppStream 2.0 scaling
- Implemented Blue/Green deployment in Kubernetes
- Resolved Terraform Enterprise and AWS Landing Zone issues
- Improved bootstrapping of products in AWS and Kubernetes with Helm, Python and GoCD
DevOps Engineer - GlobalLogic
May 2016 – Dec 2017
White label cloud services for mobile providers · AWS, Python, Ansible, Java, Kubernetes
- Implemented Flask RESTful API
- Containerized third-party software components with Docker
- Migrated shell automation to Ansible with custom inventory
Certifications
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
2020 and 2024
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2017 and 2019
Education
BS in Computer Science
National Aviation University
AS in Software Systems Maintenance
Kyiv College of Information Systems and Technologies