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DevOps Engineer

Matvey Aleksandrov

Building scalable infrastructure for startups and enterprises

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Based in

St. Petersburg, Russia

Remote-friendly, comfortable with distributed teams, async communication, and on-call rotations. Ready to relocate to Moscow or other Europe countries.

Work Experience

Mar 2025 – Jan 2026
11 months

DevOps Engineer

Human Help

  • Designed and implemented a multi-cloud (Selectel, GCP, Cloudflare) HA infrastructure from scratch using Terraform.
  • Optimized infrastructure costs by implementing Preemptible (Spot) instances and autoscaling.
  • Led microservices architecture design, implementing advanced networking with Cilium and Service Mesh.
  • Built standardized and reusable CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI, reducing build times and unifying deployment processes.
  • Automated application lifecycle with a GitOps approach via ArgoCD, simplifying and accelerating deployments.
Sep 2024 – Mar 2025
7 months

DevOps Engineer (Intern)

MTS

  • Enhanced infrastructure security by deploying a proactive Brute-force protection system with Fail2ban and nftables.
  • Implemented centralized authentication for Forgejo Git-hosting using Keycloak SSO, improving security and user access management.
Sep 2022 – Sep 2024
2 years

Project Author / DevOps Engineer

Individual R&D Project

  • Developed an MVP of a B2C VPN service that won 2nd place at a GUAP university scientific conference.
  • Engineered and deployed the service's infrastructure on k3s using GitOps (ArgoCD) and IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
  • Implemented autoscaling for VPN servers based on user activity, growing the user base to 200+ users.

Skills & Technologies

Containerization & Orchestration

KubernetesDockerIstio (Service Mesh)Cilium

IaC & CI/CD

TerraformAnsibleGitLab CIArgoCD (GitOps)

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaLoki

Languages & Tools

PythonGoBashGit

Infrastructure & Platforms

LinuxNginxPostgreSQLKeycloak

Methodologies

DevOpsSREIaCGitOps