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Aitegin Kubanaliev

Senior DevOps Engineer

Automating infrastructure, shipping reliably, sleeping through the night.

Summary

DevOps Engineer with 8+ years building and operating cloud-native platforms on AWS. Specializes in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and observability. Reduced deployment times by 90% and cut cloud spend by 35% across teams of 50+ engineers.

Skills

Cloud & Infra

AWSGCPTerraformCloudFormationPulumi

Containers

DockerKubernetesHelmEKSECS

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsJenkinsGitLab CIArgoCD

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaDatadogELK

Scripting

BashPythonGoYAML

Practices

GitOpsSREIaCBlue/GreenChaos Eng

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer — CloudScale Inc.

2021 — Present
  • Migrated 40+ microservices from EC2 to EKS, improving resource utilization by 45%.
  • Built GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD enabling 200+ deploys/week with zero-downtime rollouts.
  • Authored Terraform modules adopted org-wide, standardizing 12 AWS accounts.
  • Implemented Prometheus/Grafana stack reducing MTTR from 45 min to 8 min.

DevOps Engineer — DataForge Labs

2018 — 2021
  • Designed CI/CD with Jenkins & Docker cutting release cycles from 2 weeks to 2 days.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform across staging and production.
  • Set up centralized logging (ELK) processing 500GB/day of application logs.

Systems Administrator — Northwind Tech

2016 — 2018
  • Managed 100+ Linux servers, automating patching and backups with Ansible.
  • Reduced incident volume 30% by introducing monitoring and alerting with Nagios.

Education

B.S. Computer Science

2012 — 2016

State University

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate