vitaly@lobachev:~$ cat profile.yamlname: "Vitaly Lobachev"
location: "Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱"
role: "Platform Engineer | DevOps Architect | AI Infrastructure Specialist"
education: "PhD in Engineering"
experience: "15+ years in IT Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering"
philosophy: |
"Treat infrastructure like a product.
Treat pipelines like code.
Automate everything that's boring."
current_mission: "Exploring the frontier between DevOps, GitOps, and LLMOps"
status: "Available for interesting challenges 🟢"💡 Vitaly's Law of Automation
"If you can script it, you should. If you can't script it, you should find a way. And if you still can't, automate the search for a solution."
class VitalySkills:
def __init__(self):
self.expertise_level = "Senior+"
@property
def cloud_native(self):
return {
"orchestration": ["Kubernetes", "EKS", "Helm", "Istio", "MicroK8S"],
"cloud_platforms": ["AWS (Advanced)", "Multi-Account Architecture"],
"gitops": ["ArgoCD", "Argo Rollouts", "Flux"],
"service_mesh": ["Istio", "Envoy"],
"containers": ["Docker", "ECS", "Containerd"],
"proficiency": "█████████░ 95%"
}
@property
def infrastructure_as_code(self):
return {
"tools": ["Terraform (Expert)", "Ansible", "Packer", "CloudFormation"],
"patterns": ["Modular IaC", "Multi-Environment", "State Management"],
"proficiency": "██████████ 98%"
}
@property
def cicd_automation(self):
return {
"platforms": ["GitHub Actions", "Jenkins", "GitLab CI", "TeamCity"],
"strategies": ["Blue-Green", "Canary", "A/B Testing", "Progressive Delivery"],
"proficiency": "█████████░ 92%"
}
@property
def observability(self):
return {
"monitoring": ["Prometheus", "Grafana", "Thanos"],
"logging": ["ELK Stack", "Graylog", "CloudWatch"],
"tracing": ["Jaeger", "AWS X-Ray"],
"alerting": ["AlertManager", "PagerDuty Integration"],
"proficiency": "█████████░ 90%"
}
@property
def data_infrastructure(self):
return {
"databases": ["PostgreSQL", "MongoDB", "MySQL", "Redis", "DynamoDB"],
"warehouses": ["Snowflake", "Hadoop", "Hive"],
"orchestration": ["Airflow", "DataHub"],
"proficiency": "████████░░ 85%"
}
@property
def security_ops(self):
return {
"secrets_management": ["HashiCorp Vault", "AWS KMS", "AWS Secrets Manager"],
"practices": ["Zero Trust", "Encryption at Rest/Transit", "Compliance Automation"],
"network_security": ["VPC Design", "DDoS Protection", "WAF"],
"proficiency": "████████░░ 88%"
}
@property
def ai_llmops(self):
return {
"platforms": ["Onyx GenAI", "LiteLLM", "Claude Code"],
"infrastructure": ["GPU Clusters", "Model Serving", "Vector DBs"],
"automation": ["LLM CI/CD", "Model Deployment Pipelines"],
"status": "🔥 Current Focus Area",
"proficiency": "████████░░ 80% (rapidly growing)"
}
[2024-PRESENT] INFO Platform Engineer @ Bitvavo (Crypto Infrastructure)
├─ Built fault-tolerant, highly available AWS + Kubernetes infrastructure
├─ Automated deployment of 50+ blockchain wallet nodes with Terraform + ArgoCD
├─ Implemented progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts (Blue-Green, Canary)
├─ Integrated Snowflake data warehouse with MongoDB Atlas
└─ Achievement: 99.9% uptime with automated recovery systems
[2022-2024] INFO Senior DevOps Engineer @ DataArt / Experiment X
├─ Designed multi-account AWS architecture with Control Tower
├─ Migrated legacy services to Kubernetes with Istio service mesh
├─ Built comprehensive CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
├─ Implemented unified observability: Prometheus + Grafana + Thanos
└─ Achievement: Reduced deployment time by 75%
[2020-2022] INFO Project Lead & DevOps @ Samson-opt / Rework
├─ Led infrastructure automation initiatives
├─ Established IaC practices with Terraform and Ansible
├─ Set up centralized logging and monitoring solutions
└─ Achievement: Automated 90% of manual infrastructure tasks
[2015-2020] INFO Full-Stack Engineer → DevOps Specialist
├─ Transitioned from application development to infrastructure
├─ Built CI/CD pipelines for diverse tech stacks
└─ Achievement: Pioneered DevOps culture in multiple organizations
const project = {
challenge: "Deploy AI infrastructure at scale",
solution: [
"Automated 50+ wallet node deployments",
"Integrated MongoDB Atlas + Snowflake",
"Built LLM-specific CI/CD pipelines"
],
impact: "Enabled rapid AI model deployment",
tech: ["AWS", "Terraform", "ArgoCD", "K8s"]
}; |
const project = {
challenge: "Modernize legacy infrastructure",
solution: [
"Multi-account AWS with Control Tower",
"Service mesh with Istio + Envoy",
"Progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts"
],
impact: "10x deployment frequency increase",
tech: ["K8s", "Istio", "AWS", "GitOps"]
}; |
const project = {
challenge: "Fragmented monitoring landscape",
solution: [
"Centralized Prometheus + Thanos",
"Grafana dashboards for all services",
"Automated alerting with PagerDuty"
],
impact: "MTTD reduced by 80%",
tech: ["Prometheus", "Grafana", "Thanos"]
}; |
const project = {
challenge: "Compliance + high availability",
solution: [
"HashiCorp Vault secrets management",
"AWS KMS encryption everywhere",
"Self-healing HAProxy with liveness probes"
],
impact: "Zero security incidents",
tech: ["Vault", "KMS", "HAProxy", "K8s"]
}; |
[CURRENT_FOCUS]
primary = "Advancing in LLMOps and AI Infrastructure"
secondary = "Building curated DevOps best practices repositories"
tertiary = "Contributing to open-source infrastructure projects"
[LEARNING_QUEUE]
next_up = ["Advanced RAG Systems", "Vector Databases at Scale", "MLOps Patterns"]
in_progress = ["Claude SDK", "Anthropic API Integration", "LLM Fine-tuning Pipelines"]
[CONTRIBUTION_GOALS]
open_source = true
knowledge_sharing = true
community_building = true
[STATUS]
availability = "Open to interesting challenges and collaborations"# Quick access aliases
alias personal="cd https://github.com/vlobachev"
alias devops-wisdom="cd https://github.com/devops-best-practices"
alias ai-frontier="cd https://github.com/best-aI-technologies"
alias connect="open https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitalylobachev""The best way to predict the future is to automate it. The second best way is to version control it. The third best way is to monitor it relentlessly."
I'm always excited to discuss:
✓ Complex infrastructure challenges ✓ Cloud-native architecture design ✓ GitOps and progressive delivery strategies ✓ AI/LLM infrastructure and operations ✓ Open-source DevOps tooling ✓ Knowledge sharing and mentorship
📧 Reach out via LinkedIn for professional inquiries ⭐ Star my repositories if you find them useful 🔄 Fork, contribute, and let's build something amazing
"Give me a well-architected system and a good CI/CD pipeline, and I shall move mountains... automatically, with monitoring."
— Vitaly Lobachev
⚙️ This README is automatically awesome • Built with passion for infrastructure • Deployed with GitOps • Monitored 24/7