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Alexey Pankratyev

@alexeypankratyev

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DevOps leader building scalable infrastructure platforms and automated CI/CD for global gaming services.

Lithuania

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior/platform DevOps role where I can lead platform engineering, build scalable CI/CD and automation, mentor teams, and deliver reliable, vendor-agnostic infrastructure.

I am a DevOps leader with extensive experience designing and implementing infrastructure platforms, automated application lifecycles, and scalable CI/CD for global gaming services. I have led platform and engineering teams at Wargaming, delivering ephemeral environments, GitOps/CICD-as-code approaches, and observability solutions using AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and related tooling.

My career includes hands-on platform engineering, SRE, and sysadmin work across cloud and on-prem environments, where I automated operations with Go, Python, Bash, Ansible, Chef, and CI systems to reduce toil and accelerate time to market. I focus on reliable, vendor-agnostic observability, incident and release management, and mentoring teams to achieve high performance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

DevOps Lead

Current

Wargaming

Jul 2023 - Present (2 years 7 months)

Built a hybrid infrastructure platform on AWS to support global game service lifecycle, implemented GitOps CI/CD, ephemeral environments, and observability, accelerating time-to-market and scaling services worldwide.

Kubernetes ArgoCD CI CD Helm Go

DevOps Architect

Wargaming

Aug 2021 - Aug 2023 (2 years)

Selected cloud technologies and designed dynamic infrastructure environments for gaming services on AWS, advising teams on DevOps methodologies and delivering scalable production-ready platforms.

ECR RDS S3 EC2 Kubernetes Terraform Golang Python Helm Crossplane

DevOps Team Lead

Wargaming

May 2019 - Aug 2021 (2 years 3 months)

Led and mentored a five-person DevOps team while remaining hands-on, improving CI/CD and infrastructure practices to support faster deployments and reliable game services.

Team Leadership CI CD Kubernetes Helm Ansible Jenkins Linux

DevOps Engineer

Wargaming

Dec 2016 - May 2019 (2 years 5 months)

Implemented continuous deployment for core applications, led Kubernetes and Helm migrations, authored Ansible automation and CI tooling, and developed utilities in Python and Go to reduce toil.

Kubernetes Helm Ansible Jenkins Python Go Mesos

Site Reliability Engineer

OOO Kompaniya Tenzor

Aug 2012 - Nov 2016 (4 years 3 months)

Maintained microservices reliability with 24/7 on-call, automated business processes with Chef and Rundeck, and improved service configuration and server provisioning to reduce human error.

SRE Chef Rundeck Ruby Python BASH Nginx PostgreSQL CentOS

Systems Administrator

OAO National Mineral Company

Feb 2009 - Jun 2012 (3 years 4 months)

Built and maintained company IT infrastructure from scratch, including networking, VPN, 1C Enterprise, IP telephony, Windows AD, and CentOS monitoring systems.

Systems Administration VPN Hyper V CentOS Monitoring (Cacti)Networking