Dosmurat Kazhikumarov

Built the entire cloud infrastructure from scratch on VKCS, implementing it with Terramate and Terraform across three environments, deploying a managed Kubernetes cluster, and setting up monitoring systems. Developed a full CI/CD pipeline in GitLab and provisioned databases and VPNs, which helped attract new investors.

Mentored backend engineers in best practices, including writing tests and applying TDD, which improved service reliability and reduced coding errors. As CTO, boosted team morale and introduced the TL Roadmap framework for developing engineering managers.

Clarified bottlenecks and critical services from a high-level architecture design, creating a detailed system design that guided the outsourcing team. Designed an on-premise infrastructure scheme with GitLab, Kubernetes, LDAP, and OpenVPN to reduce reliance on expensive outsourced cloud resources.

Refactored a Django monolith to be more modular, enabling the extraction of bank adapter components as microservices, which significantly reduced AWS resource usage. Built PCI DSS compliant AWS infrastructure using Terraform, provisioning EKS clusters, configuring GitLab CI/CD, and implementing a security stack, successfully passing the PCI DSS audit.

Grade: 3.9 GPA

Achieved a Bachelor of Science in Informational Technologies with a strong academic performance, demonstrated by a 3.9 GPA. This program provided a solid foundation in various aspects of information technology.