Dimitris Zervas

Co-designed and rebuilt AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure to host Rust Plasma blockchain nodes, led a product to production with a scalable, highly available infra, and implemented CI/CD, observability, and JIT access controls to improve security and reliability.

Led DevOps for a major Web3 API provider, architected Nomad deployment templates, analyzed node codebases for production readiness, and built a Go snapshot manager reducing full node sync time from >48 hours to under 6 hours.

Contributed Python features and data processing to a SIEM centralizing security events and implemented CrowdStrike integration to standardize agent deployment and improve endpoint visibility.

Managed Kubernetes clusters for government services, implemented logging and monitoring for a QEMU VM cluster with 2,000+ VMs, and maintained a 7PB Ceph private cloud to ensure high availability and performance.

Maintained and improved Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for Adobe AEM applications and integrated automated OWASP ZAP scanning into pipelines to detect web vulnerabilities early.

Conducted hardware and infrastructure penetration testing, reverse engineering and vulnerability assessments of medical devices, and performed source code review and malware analysis to improve product security.

Developed and maintained websites using PHP and LAMP-stack tools for various clients, delivering production-ready web applications and site maintenance from 2013–2017.