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Armen Hovhannisyan

@haha-armen

Head of IT Operations at WISE Foundation, with cloud operations experience at Oracle and infrastructure for 3 million users.

Armenia

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At WISE Foundation, I’m Head of the IT Operations Department. Previously, as Director of Engineering at Nuve, I led engineering strategy and delivery processes and guided a distributed team across engineering disciplines.

At iris Dating, I led DevOps and cloud infrastructure strategy for a high-availability consumer platform, operating AWS infrastructure supporting over 3 million users globally. I implemented infrastructure as code with Terraform and Kubernetes and introduced centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting.

At Oracle, I led distributed cloud operations teams supporting Oracle CoBrowse and worked on reliability, incident response, and service stability. Earlier, I participated in the design and implementation of software and IPTV solutions at IUNETWORKS LLC.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of IT Operations Department

Current

WISE Foundation

Nov 2025 - Present (11 months)

Leading IT operations for the foundation, overseeing infrastructure and technology initiatives.

Director of Engineering

Nuve

Sep 2024 - Aug 2026 (1 year 11 months)

Led engineering strategy, delivery processes, and infrastructure operations. Managed a distributed team of 10 engineers across multiple disciplines and defined technical roadmap and architecture standards.

Engineering Leadership Platform Engineering Cross functional Leadership Cloud Infrastructure Technical Roadmap Architecture Standards

DevOps Manager

iris Dating

Jan 2018 - Dec 2025 (7 years 11 months)

Led DevOps and cloud infrastructure strategy for a high-availability consumer platform. Architected AWS infrastructure supporting over 3 million users and implemented IaC, CI/CD, and monitoring solutions.

AWS Azure Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus ELK GitHub Bitbucket TeamCity Linux CI CD Infrastructure as Code Monitoring Incident Management

DevOps Engineer

Toptal

Jun 2015 - Sep 2025 (10 years 3 months)

Worked as a DevOps engineer on various client projects, focusing on cloud infrastructure and automation.

Senior Manager, Cloud Operations

Oracle

Sep 2015 - May 2022 (6 years 8 months)

Led distributed cloud operations teams supporting Oracle CoBrowse for Fortune 500 clients. Managed reliability, incident response, and operational processes.

Cloud Operations Incident Response Reliability Monitoring Team Leadership Service Delivery

System Engineer/Developer and DBA

Plexonic

Sep 2014 - Apr 2015 (7 months)

Deployed and maintained backend systems using Java and Cassandra.

Java Cassandra

Lead System Engineer

IUNETWORKS LLC

Mar 2009 - Jul 2014 (5 years 4 months)

Participated in design and implementation of software for the State revenue committee and internet provider billing. Also contributed to the 'T5' IPTV solution as operations and architect.

Systems Engineering Software Design Deployment IPTV Operations

Software Developer

Lycos Europe

Jun 2008 - Dec 2008 (6 months)

Worked on CRM and billing systems using Java, PHP, Perl, PSQL, and SOAP.

Java PHP Perl PostgreSQL SOAP CRM Billing

Senior System Engineer

Lycos Europe

Sep 2005 - Mar 2008 (2 years 6 months)

Operated Lycos Mail, Lycos Premium Mail, Jubii Mail, Chat, and internal products. Used Linux Server (Debian), Sun Solaris, MsSQL Server, MySQL, Apache, Resin, and Tomcat.

Linux Debian Oracle Solaris MSSQL MySQL Apache Resin Tomcat System Operation

Expert

Small and Medium Entrepreneurship Development National Cente

Feb 2005 - Aug 2005 (6 months)

Performed network and system administration and designed a global document management system over regional branches.

Network Administration System Administration Document Management

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Yerevan University of Management and Information Technology

Bachelor's degree, Information Technologies in Software Development Systems

2001 - 2005

Bachelor's degree in Information Technologies in Software Development Systems from Yerevan University of Management and Information Technology (2001-2005).