Vladimir Kichaev
@vladimirkichaev
Senior Cloud & DevOps engineer driving secure, automated, scalable cloud platforms.
SerbiaWhat I'm looking for
I am a self-motivated, result-driven cloud and DevOps engineer with 21 years of overall engineering experience and 12 years focused on implementing DevOps practices and cloud architecture. I specialize in designing secure multi-account AWS architectures, refactoring and modularizing Terraform codebases, automating infrastructure with Terraform/Terragrunt/Helm/ArgoCD, and building CI/CD pipelines to eliminate technical debt and accelerate delivery.
Throughout my career I have led platform builds, hardened security across ECS/RDS/S3/ELB/KMS/Route53/WAF and Cloudflare, deployed centralized monitoring using Prometheus/Loki/Grafana, and launched microservices-based production systems including payment platforms. I deliver pragmatic, well-documented solutions under tight timelines, including on-premise adaptations and cross-cloud migrations, and mentor teams to improve delivery and operational practices.
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Platform/DevOps Engineer
Independent Consultant
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)
Designed and refactored AWS cloud infrastructure, modularized Terraform codebases, and implemented centralized monitoring and auditable Terraform workflows; launched a microservices payment system and hardened security across AWS services.
Evaluated and improved client infrastructures using best practices, eliminated CI/CD tech debt, improved monitoring/alerting, and designed CI/CD and multi-tenant automation for migrations between cloud providers.
Lead DevOps Engineer
CTDev
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020 (11 months)
Refactored automation pipelines and implemented public cloud proofs-of-concept; configured Azure DevOps CI/CD for multiple projects to improve delivery reliability.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Lyte
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019 (2 months)
Conducted performance testing and tuned CDN, Kubernetes autoscaling, and application servers to optimize system performance.
DevOps Consultant
Productive Edge
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019 (1 year 6 months)
Designed and implemented automation for product infrastructure and developed POCs to support future infrastructure scalability.
Delivery Team Lead
WorkFusion Systems
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017 (3 months)
Rebuilt the delivery team, established delivery processes, and retained a key account while increasing engineer proficiency without extra costs.
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