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Alexey Melezhik

@alexeymelezhik

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System Architect specializing in secure platform engineering, IAM design, and production-ready infrastructure.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to work with teams where I can own system architecture end-to-end—design, security-focused IAM, implementation review, and production hardening—while balancing cost, flexibility, and operational reliability through close collaboration with developers and stakeholders.

I’m a System Architect and lead architect focused on building development platforms and production systems with security, reliability, and maintainability in mind. I create HLD/LLD specifications, drive architectural documentation governance (likec4, arch42), and adapt designs as security and business requirements change rapidly.

In my recent roles, I’ve led internal platform architecture and worked closely with system/business analysts, security teams, developers, and product owners—from initial drafts to production. I’ve designed IAM for critical Internet-facing commercial systems serving thousands of customers, and I focus on implementation reviews, developer team audits, and practical deployment readiness.

My background spans infrastructure and engineering delivery: distributed systems, CI/CD flows, configuration management, and hands-on development. I’ve worked across cloud and container ecosystems (Azure and Kubernetes/OpenShift), message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and IAM stacks (Keycloak, ORY), and I’m equally comfortable going deep with developers to turn architecture into robust implementation details.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Architect

Current

Bureau 1440

Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 4 months)

Lead architect of a development platform, creating HLD/LLD specifications and reviewing implementations. Conducts audits and helps adapt projects to rapidly changing security and business requirements, including IAM system design.

Architecture Governance Likec4 Arch42 Golang Kafka Keycloak IAM System Architecture

System Architect

MyOffice

Mar 2023 - Mar 2025 (2 years)

Designed and implemented an internal development platform in collaboration with a group of Go developers and QA. Performed system design, implementation review, and prototyping, including building a service discovery system.

System Architecture Golang RabbitMQ Etcd Prototyping

Chief System Engineer

EPAM Systems

Mar 2018 - May 2023 (5 years 2 months)

Worked on-site with EPAM customers designing and developing infrastructure and platform engineering systems. Built CI/CD flows and coordinated best practices across multiple DevOps teams.

Infrastructure Engineering CI CD Azure Kubernetes OpenShift Azure DevOps Python Platform Engineering

Lead Devops Engineer

EPAM Systems

Jan 2015 - Mar 2018 (3 years 2 months)

Acted as a platform engineer managing hundreds of AWS EC2 instances using Chef. Built test automation frameworks using Perl and debugged and maintained Java applications.

AWS EC2 Chef Ruby Perl Test Automation Debugging Platform Engineering

Lead Backend Engineer

Adriver LTD

Jan 2007 - Dec 2014 (7 years 11 months)

Developed backend functionality for a large advertisement platform, including billing and internal systems. Built a deployment-focused internal build system to simplify releases across many applications and servers.