Senior Platform Engineer with 5+ years building cloud infrastructure at Yandex Cloud (one of the major public cloud providers in Russia/CIS), and 17+ years overall in software engineering.
- Led the migration of Cloud Console and UI services from VM-based instance groups to Kubernetes.
- Launched UI infrastructure for two new cloud regions (Israel, Kazakhstan).
- Coordinated platform work across a team of up to 14 engineers while staying hands-on in architecture and operations.
Willing to relocate: Yes — UK, Netherlands, Ireland (visa sponsorship required).
Also open to B2B/contract work as a registered sole proprietor in Serbia.
Senior Platform Engineer with 5+ years building cloud infrastructure at Yandex Cloud (one of the major public cloud providers in Russia/CIS), and 17+ years overall in software engineering.
- Led the migration of Cloud Console and UI services from VM-based instance groups to Kubernetes.
- Launched UI infrastructure for two new cloud regions (Israel, Kazakhstan).
- Coordinated platform work across a team of up to 14 engineers while staying hands-on in architecture and operations.
Senior Platform Engineer / Technical Lead with 5+ years in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, and 17+ years overall in software engineering.
My strongest areas are Kubernetes-based infrastructure, Terraform/IaC, CI/CD, observability, production reliability, and platform security. Recently led a migration of multiple services from VM-based infrastructure to Kubernetes, built a Fluent Bit logging pipeline processing around 12 MB/s, and drove Distroless image adoption, reducing image size by about 70% and significantly lowering critical CVEs.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). Looking for Senior/Staff Platform Engineer, SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles where I can work on reliable infrastructure, internal developer platforms, automation, and observability.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Kubernetes (CKA), Terraform, Helm, Docker, Linux, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, TeamCity), AWS, GCP, Nginx, WAF, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Go, Python, Bash, TypeScript
Résumé/CV: https://ismd.dev/cv.pdf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismdev/
Email: work-hn@ismd.dev
Senior Platform Engineer with 5+ years building cloud infrastructure at Yandex Cloud (one of the major public cloud providers in Russia/CIS), and 17+ years overall in software engineering.
- Led the migration of Cloud Console and UI services from VM-based instance groups to Kubernetes.
- Launched UI infrastructure for two new cloud regions (Israel, Kazakhstan).
- Coordinated platform work across a team of up to 14 engineers while staying hands-on in architecture and operations.