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Nikolai Rodionov

@nikolairodionov

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DevOps engineer specializing in Kubernetes, CI/CD and cloud-native infrastructure automation.

Germany

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for a senior DevOps/platform role where I can design scalable Kubernetes platforms, lead CI/CD automation, and drive reliable, observable cloud-native operations.

I'm a DevOps engineer with almost 10 years of hands-on experience focused on Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure. I solve complex infrastructure challenges, build reliable delivery pipelines and automate operational tasks to improve developer velocity.

I've led migrations and implementations such as moving monitoring from Datadog to a self-managed stack (Mimir/Loki/Tempo/Grafana), migrating MySQL Percona clusters to Kubernetes using the Percona Operator, and implementing downtime-free blue-green deployments for RabbitMQ.

I'm comfortable writing operators and automation (examples include a GCP Kafka auth operator and maintaining a DB operator), and I work across languages and tools—Bash, Go, Rust, Python—while leveraging ArgoCD/Flux, Terraform/Opentofu, Prometheus/Mimir and major cloud providers to deliver resilient platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

DevOps Engineer

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Onpier

Jun 2024 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Working on Kubernetes-focused platform and CI/CD pipelines, implementing observability and database operators to improve deployment reliability and automation.

Kubernetes Helm ArgoCD Gitlab CI Prometheus Go Terraform PostgreSQL

Platform Engineer

Giant Swarm

Dec 2023 - May 2024 (5 months)

Maintained and operated Kubernetes platform components and CI/CD tooling, contributing to cluster reliability and platform automation during a six-month engagement.