Alina Fedorenko
@alinafedorenko
Experienced Tech Lead and Infrastructure Architect specializing in cybersecurity.
What I'm looking for
I am a highly skilled Tech Lead and Infrastructure Architect with over 20 years of experience in IT, specializing in designing and implementing scalable and secure infrastructure solutions. My career has spanned multiple countries, where I have directed global IT operations and led high-performing teams to achieve significant business outcomes. I have a proven track record in driving digital transformation initiatives and solving complex IT challenges.
Throughout my career, I have spearheaded the architectural design and setup of global infrastructure for micro-credit businesses, ensuring compliance with industry standards such as PCI DSS and ISO27001. My expertise in cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and robust cybersecurity frameworks has enabled me to implement advanced solutions using AWS, Terraform, and various DevOps practices. I am passionate about mentoring teams and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, which has led to enhanced performance and security across organizations.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Tech Lead, Infrastructure Architect, CISO
IT PTOSTIR PTE LTD
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024 (1 year 9 months)
Directed the architectural design and setup of global infrastructure for a holding company's micro-credit business across multiple countries, ensuring scalability and regional compliance. Spearheaded the implementation of advanced AWS infrastructure utilizing Terraform, including redundant multi-AZ autoscaling hybrid GPU nodes (EKS) and RDS with RDS proxies.
Tech Lead, Infrastructure Architect, CISO
FINANCE COMPANY INVEST FINANCE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023 (2 years)
Achieved and maintained PCI DSS compliance through the implementation of security best practices, manual penetration tests, and automated vulnerability scans. Orchestrated a complete rebuild of the micro-credit business infrastructure from scratch, significantly enhancing reliability, performance, and security posture for microservices and migration to AWS.
Tech Lead
SIXT, 6-Systems Sixt Group
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021 (1 year 9 months)
Designed and implemented the common infrastructure architecture for all Sixt Leasing SE projects at the holding level, ensuring consistency and efficiency across the organization. Drove infrastructure deployment and automation utilizing Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual effort and increasing deployment speed.
Senior NOC Engineer
SMTP, Inc.
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017 (2 years 8 months)
Developed and implemented the Datacenter architecture, planned server procurement, and built three DPDK-accelerated OpenStack clouds based on RADOS in remote datacenters. Championed the Infrastructure as Code approach, documenting all setup processes in Ansible projects and leveraging Puppet and Cobbler for automation.
Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Gorilla Group
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014 (4 months)
Set up new environments in CloudStack, providing comprehensive support, installation, and troubleshooting for high-loaded servers. Supported client and infrastructure servers, primarily on RedHat with Postfix, Nginx, Apache, Magento, and WordPress in cloud environments.
Unix Linux System Administrator, Programmer
Freelance
Jan 2004 - Jun 2014 (10 years 5 months)
Conducted installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, penetration testing, and security hardening for RHEL, Debian, FreeBSD high-loaded servers, OpenStack, and CloudStack. Provided website support, recovered lost archive passwords, and performed penetration testing.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
IMBG
PhD Student, Biophysics
2009 - 2013
Activities and societies: Distributed computer modelling with GROMACS, AMBER, etc, and own software. Main tasks regarding molecular modelling of DNA beta-polymerase using GRID technology. Passed PhD exams with grade 'excellent'.
Conducted distributed computer modeling using GROMACS, AMBER, and proprietary software. Focused on molecular modeling of DNA beta-polymerase utilizing GRID technology. Successfully passed PhD exams with an 'excellent' grade.
KHNU
Master's, Biophysics
2002 - 2008
Activities and societies: Defended Master's thesis in Applied Physics with an excellent grade. Graduate work on Molecular modeling, all calculations performed with own programs (Fortran + Python). Graduated from the Biological and Medical Physics Department, School of Radiophysics. Received a certificate for the best report at a student conference held in IRE, published in the book of abstracts.
Defended Master's thesis in Applied Physics with an excellent grade. Graduate work on Molecular modeling, all calculations performed with own programs (Fortran + Python). Graduated from the Biological and Medical Physics Department, School of Radiophysics. Received a certificate for the best report at a student conference held in IRE, published in the book of abstracts.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
Blockchain
Ethereum
GitLab
Bitbucket
SonarQube
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Jenkins
GitLab CI
Bitbucket Pipelines
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Memcached
BIND9
Magento
Redis
Terraform
Jira
PHP
Lua
Pascal
AWK
HAProxy
Traefik
RabbitMQ
Istio
Grafana
Prometheus
Zabbix
Nagios
DPDK
Wireshark
OpenStack
Debian
Linux
Kali Linux
FreeBSD
Datadog
ClamAV
WordPress
Ansible
LXC
VirtualBox
NGINX
Swoole
Openswan
OpenVZ
ceph
KVM
OpsGenie
Thanos
Clickhouse
Snyk
Metasploit
SoftLayer
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