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Artem Babkin

@artembabkin

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I build zero-downtime Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure automation, and observability systems at production scale.

Vietnam

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build and improve production platforms where Kubernetes, automation, observability, and resilient infrastructure help development teams deliver reliably. I value hands-on technical ownership, security, zero-downtime change, and opportunities to mentor engineers.

I've rebuilt production infrastructure at Rostelecom, migrating more than 100 services to Kubernetes with zero downtime while redesigning logging, monitoring, load balancing, and operating systems.

I design and operate RKE2 platforms with Ceph, Cilium, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Vault, Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows through ArgoCD and Fleet. My work has increased deployment speed by 40–50%, reduced false alerts by roughly 70%, and freed 40–50% of compute resources.

I lead two engineers, run workshops for development teams, and manage incident response and on-call processes. I like infrastructure that helps teams ship reliably instead of getting in the way.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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Rostelecom

Apr 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Architecture and Design of a Production Kubernetes Platform:
- Designed and deployed a production RKE2 cluster from scratch with automated node scaling and a dedicated etcd cluster
- Executed a full, zero-downtime migration from a legacy cluster (v1.20). Implemented HPA for critical services and leveraged affinity/anti-affinity, taints/tolerations, and resource requests/limits to ensure performanc

Infrastructure Engineer

Rostelecom

Jun 2024 - Apr 2025 (10 months)

Automation, Security, and Infrastructure Management:
- Deployed a dedicated Kubernetes cluster for infrastructure services and migrated near by 70% of services into it, freeing up 40-50% of computational resources, enhancing their availability, and preserving existing data.
- Implemented a GitOps approach using ArgoCD for the infrastructure cluster.
- Conducted a full refactoring of Nginx/Angie co

Infrastructure Engineer

Kraftway

Feb 2021 - Jun 2024 (3 years 4 months)

Infrastructure Transformation and Kubernetes Implementation:
- Executed complete legacy infrastructure transformation: migrated 30+ bare-metal servers and 100+ virtual machines to Infrastructure as Code state using Ansible and Terraform
- Designed and implemented company's first Kubernetes clusters for running production and infrastructure workloads
- Automated service lifecycle through GitLab CI/

System Administrator

MPO-Rumyantsev JSC

Nov 2019 - Jan 2021 (1 year 2 months)

IT Infrastructure Administration and Monitoring:
- Deployed and maintained centralized monitoring system based on Zabbix 5.0 (CentOS 7 + MySQL + Apache2 + phpMyAdmin)
- Developed custom scripts for monitoring proprietary applications and system metrics
- Created and maintained Active Directory user accounts and groups, Exchange mailboxes

Automation and Process Optimization:
- Developed automation

Technical support

Russian Project

Oct 2018 - Oct 2019 (1 year)

User Support and System Administration:
- Provided comprehensive technical support for users, peripherals, and video surveillance systems
- Managed server maintenance and network infrastructure deployment
- Automated troubleshooting procedures for common user PC issues

Process Automation and Monitoring:
- Developed Bash scripts to resolve user issues including display resolution problems and DRM