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Ashot Arushanyan

@ashotarushanyan

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Google Cloud–certified Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in Kubernetes and Terraform.

Armenia

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role where I can improve reliability and developer velocity, lead FinOps and IaC initiatives, mentor engineers, and scale cloud-native platforms while optimizing costs.

I am a Google Cloud and HashiCorp certified Senior DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure. My work centers on Kubernetes, Terraform IaC, cost optimization, and site reliability engineering practices that scale microservice platforms.

At MaxDuel and Metric Gaming I migrated and optimized cloud platforms, achieving major cost reductions (40–80%) and maintaining 99.9% uptime across 50+ microservices. I implemented autoscaling with Karpenter, multi-environment Terraform workspaces, and GitOps deployments to enable rapid, reliable delivery.

I designed and maintained full-stack observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, DataDog), automated disaster recovery for MySQL/Postgres/Cassandra, and developed Python tooling to automate on-call workflows and security audits. I also led FinOps efforts including rightsizing and reserved-instance optimization.

I enjoy mentoring engineers, authoring operational guidance, and establishing RFC and incident-management processes that reduce MTTR and improve organizational reliability. I seek roles where I can drive infrastructure reliability, cost efficiency, and developer velocity at scale.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps Engineer

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MaxDuel

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year)

Migrated GKE clusters to spot instances and implemented autoscaling, reducing infrastructure costs by 40-45% while maintaining high availability; built Terraform IaC for 10+ environments and enabled 50+ daily deployments with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.

Kubernetes Terraform GKE GitHub Actions ArgoCD Karpenter Prometheus Grafana Python CI CD

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Metric Gaming

Sep 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 4 months)

Architected cloud infrastructure across 8 EKS clusters supporting 50+ microservices with 99.9% uptime; implemented Karpenter to cut CI/CD costs by 80% and led FinOps optimizations reducing AWS spend by an additional 28%.

EKS Kubernetes Karpenter Terraform AWS FinOps Monitoring Datadog Grafana Incident Management

Infrastructure Engineer

SADA, An Insight Company

May 2021 - Aug 2023 (2 years 3 months)

Led 10+ infrastructure projects and architected 5+ GCP landing zones, migrated 400+ VMs to Terraform-managed GCP environments, and delivered L2/L3 support with a 95% first-call resolution rate.