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Dennis L

@dennisl

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I build and operate multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms through infrastructure as code.

Latvia

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build and improve multi-cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and self-service IaC workflows in an environment with witty humour, strong automation culture, and space for creative technical problem-solving.

At RealTime SIA, I run 20 Kubernetes clusters across GKE, EKS, and RKE2, including migrating six clusters from GCP to Hetzner and IONOS. I’m the main author of Terraform/Terragrunt configurations and co-authored a rendered-manifest CI/CD approach for Kubernetes delivery.

Since building backend systems in 2016, I’ve shifted predominantly into infrastructure: cloud migrations, GitOps delivery, observability, security, and automation. I also build Claude Code agent skills for complex cluster migrations and enjoy improving workflows through scripts, hotkeys, and tooling.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Platform Engineer

Current

RealTime SIA

May 2023 - Present (3 years 4 months)

Drove migration of 6 Kubernetes clusters from GCP GKE to Hetzner and IONOS RKE2. Operate 20 Kubernetes clusters across GKE, EKS and RKE2 on multiple providers.

Terraform Terragrunt GCP AWS Hetzner Atlantis Gitlab ArgoCD Flux CD

Cloud Architect

Octostrategy

May 2022 - Jul 2025 (3 years 2 months)

Cloud migration of numerous platforms. Server deployment, configuration, monitoring and alerting, network securing, and cyberattack analysis and prevention.

Terraform Terragrunt Ansible AWS Nginx Cloudflare GitHub Actions Loki VictoriaMetrics Grafana

Senior Cloud Engineer

Samsung Food

Nov 2022 - Apr 2023 (5 months)

Automated legacy approaches throughout infrastructure and team management, including IaC for GitHub IAM and GCP IAM. Migrated and rebuilt Kubernetes clusters, VPCs, VPNs, and other auxiliary infrastructure.

Terraform Kubernetes GCP Ansible ArgoCD Flux CD Cloudflare GitHub Actions

Senior Development & Cloud Engineer

Bidstack Ltd

Jan 2020 - Oct 2022 (2 years 9 months)

Full ownership of cloud resources, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines. Developed, configured, tested, deployed, and monitored business and system applications.

Terraform Terragrunt Kubernetes Helm Go BASH Python GCP Prometheus Grafana Atlantis Renovations Bitbucket Pipelines

Development & Cloud Engineer

Salmon Ltd

May 2016 - Jun 2019 (3 years 1 month)

Developed, maintained, tested, and documented RESTful APIs for e-commerce and telecom platforms. Later wrote infrastructure as code and managed Kubernetes clusters and application deployment resources.

Java Go Redis MySQL Jenkins AWS Terraform Kubernetes Helm Docker ELK

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Oracle

Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer, Java

2017 - 2017

Earned the Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer certification.

Bath Spa University

Bachelor, Creative Music Technology

2013 - 2016

Grade: First class

Bachelor's degree in Creative Music Technology with first class honours, covering audio engineering, digital signal processing, programming for audio, generative visual art, games, and networks.