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Résumé

DevOps Engineer with 9+ years building software and running infrastructure on-premises and in AWS and Azure, across fintech, e-learning, and cybersecurity. Track record: migrated legacy workloads to the cloud, moved a Docker Swarm appliance to Talos Kubernetes for air-gapped sites, cloud cost optimization, built disaster recovery plans with defined RTO/RPO targets, and deployed AI agents into production.

Role
DevOps Engineer
Based in
Vienna, Austria
Experience
9+ years

Experience

4 roles

Jan 2025 — Sep 2026

Austria · Hybrid

Senior DevOps Engineer @ ProLion

A cybersecurity company providing ransomware protection solutions for enterprise storage systems.

  • Migrated the on-premises appliance from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes on Talos Linux, for air-gapped customer deployments.
  • Managed Azure infrastructure for internal services and customer-facing products, including ad-hoc preview environments using central ArgoCD.
  • Deployed AI agents as part of the product, built and released through GitOps-managed CI/CD pipelines.

Sep 2022 — Nov 2024

Dubai, UAE · Remote

DevOps Engineer @ Notion Wave Inc.

An international provider of content-driven SaaS solutions.

  • Cut AWS costs 30% by resizing node pools, tuning lifecycle policies, and allocating workloads based on load-test data.
  • Migrated four SaaS products from on-premises infrastructure to EKS using ArgoCD and Terraform.
  • Built GitOps pipelines with GitLab, Helm, Terraform, and ArgoCD — a single source of truth for auth and environment config.
  • Ran a highly available, air-gapped on-premises Kubernetes cluster, including pfSense firewalls, Rancher Manager, and Nexus repository.
  • Built Disaster Recovery Plans covering all data and infrastructure components: RTO 6 hours, RPO 24 hours.
  • Rolled out OpenTelemetry for infrastructure monitoring.

Apr 2021 — Sep 2022

DevOps Engineer @ Khebreh Pardaz Pars (KPP)

An e-banking software provider contracted by Mellat Bank, one of the Middle East's largest financial institutions.

  • Migrated 10 systemd-managed projects to Kubernetes.
  • Managed 300+ air-gapped servers using Ansible playbooks and roles, and maintained CI/CD pipelines for 15+ projects.
  • Migrated a monolithic app to microservices using Spring Cloud, creating 14 network subnets.
  • Integrated Prometheus and ELK for monitoring; built a Java Spring app to connect to the SMS provider's SOAP API.
  • Engineered backend infrastructure for the BankPlus App, supporting 5 million users. Used Kafka with up to 200 topics, tested at over 1 million messages per second and p99 latency under 300ms.
  • Contributed to ISO 27001 implementation with the security team.

Apr 2017 — Apr 2021

Software Engineer @ Omid Financial Group

Stock market algorithmic trading.

  • Developed a Java Spring app that integrated a broker API for order submission, using Liquibase and Hibernate.
  • Ran deployment and testing stages in GitLab CI on a Kubernetes cluster.
  • Ran unit, automated, manual, load, and performance tests using Postman and JMeter.

Skills

Core

LinuxKubernetes (Talos, EKS, AKS, RKE, K3S, Kubespray, Kind)DockerContainerdHelmCiliumMetalLBCertManagerExternal Secrets OperatorCNPGKafkaStrimziNetApp Trident OperatorLonghornVeleroHarborNexusArgoCDFluxCDGitLab CITerraformAnsibleAWSAzureHetznerVMware vSpherePrometheus StackGrafana StackPythonBashYAMLGoTemplateGit

Familiar

Docker SwarmMaaSGitHub ActionsOpenTelemetryFluentdELK StackPostgreSQLMongoDBElasticsearchMinIORabbitMQEMQXCloudflareCloudFrontNginxpfSenseKeycloakSmallStepmTLSCryptographySonarQubeJavaAI AgentsRAGLangChainLangGraphADK

Languages

English — AdvancedGerman — Basic

Education

Apr 2016

M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT)

  • Ranked 5th in the final exam of the 19th National Scientific Olympiad, 2013.
  • Graduated with an A grade.
  • Primary focus on green energies and computer simulations.

May 2018

Java Developer

Maktab-Sharif bootcamp

  • Developed core understanding of Java, Spring, networking, databases, and design patterns.
  • Final project: designed and developed a university system using Java Spring.

Certifications

  • CKA — Certified Kubernetes AdministratorIn progress · Expected 2026
  • CKS — Certified Kubernetes Security SpecialistIn progress · Expected 2026

Volunteering

Sep 2026 · Speaker at CNCF Vienna Meetup

Immutable, Minimal, Mighty: Running Kubernetes on Bare Metal with Talos

References

Available on request — just ask.