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Bakhtiyar Garashov

Bakhtiyar Garashov

Infrastructure Software engineer

Paldiski mnt 189, Tallinn, Estonia, 13518
57839690
Azerbaijani, Estonian, English

Background


About

About

Master's degree alumnus of the University of Tartu (Estonia) with strong study background (cum laude diploma), skills and interests in Computer Science. Proven experience to drive infrastructure automation and enhance system reliability through innovative engineering practices.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Infrastructure Software engineerZendesk

    Oct, 2024 - Present

    Serve as a key member of the DevSecOps team at Zendesk, driving operational excellence and security across cloud-native infrastructure. Lead initiatives spanning site reliability engineering (SRE) best practices, infrastructure security hardening, and enterprise-scale Kubernetes operations on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

    • Architect and maintain production-grade Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security compliance for mission-critical services

    • Design and implement comprehensive observability solutions using Datadog and OpenTelemetry, establishing monitoring, tracing, and alerting frameworks that reduce MTTR and improve system visibility

    • Develop automation tooling and infrastructure solutions using Bash, Python, and Golang, streamlining operational workflows and reducing manual intervention

    • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Pulumi and Terraform, managing cloud resources with version control, testing, and automated deployment pipelines

    • Enforce security best practices across the infrastructure stack, conducting security assessments, implementing compliance controls, and collaborating with security teams on vulnerability remediation

    • Champion SRE principles including error budgets, SLO/SLI definitions, and blameless post-mortems to foster a culture of reliability and continuous improvement

    • Collaborate cross-functionally with development teams to optimize application performance, troubleshoot production issues, and implement deployment strategies including blue-green and canary deployments

  • Infrastructure Software engineer - database platform engineeringSwedbank

    Jan, 2023 - Oct, 20241 year 8 months

    As a part of Oracle Database infrastructure team of Swedbank alongside with many Database administrators and Infrastructure engineers building self service Database platform on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure.

    Some of technologies we use

    • Linux (bash etc)
    • Python
    • Jenkins
    • Ansible
    • Containers: Openshift, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman
    • Observability: Grafana, InfluxDb
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    • Azure
    • As a result of building self-service platform to provision a database takes only 20 minute with all configurations installed whereas it was around 35-40 minute with occasionally manual intervention

    • As a part of project I have developed observability stack from scratch using InfluxDb as timeseries metrics database, Grafana as dashboard, custom Java tool playing as exporter role and Telegraf for connection.

    • Within the team I am running daily standups, sprint retro meetings and I maintain documentation for onboarding (including, access management, architecture design etc.)

    • I also maintain existing on-prem infrastructure automation scripts written in Bash and Python. I have introduced Ruff to bump the speed of code linting and formatting.

  • Backend Software engineerMooncascade

    Jan, 2022 - Jan, 20231 year

    Developing backend applications for various companies/startups (mostly focused on Fintechs) with the tech stack including but not limited

    • Python (3.x)
    • Go
    • AWS (Lambdas, Cloudwatch, S3 and more)
    • Google Cloud Platform (Cloud functions, PubSub, Storage, Cloud scheduler etc)
    • IaC (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)
    • Serverless stack (serverless framework)
    • Atlassian stack (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence)
    • I was running "Cloud bites" weekly sessions about introducing multiple GCP services (Cloud run, App engine etc) to the team

    • I was awarded with "Curiosity Champion" award.

  • Junior Fullstack Software EngineerFinceptiv

    Dec, 2020 - Jan, 20221 year 1 month

    Working as full-stack engineer with tech stack including:

    • PHP 7.x (Symfony, Doctrine)
    • React.js (Typescript, Redux)
    • JavaScript, JQuery
    • Python (3.x)
    • Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Github actions
    • Testing: PHPUnit, React testing library, Cypress
    • Other: RabbitMQ, Graylog
    • Issue and task management: Pivotal tracker
    • Communication: Slack
    • Agile working methodology
    • I have taken frontend engineer role in 2 different projects (cashtero.pl, fidea.es) and launched them successfully for Poland and Mexico respectively

    • I built full end-to-end UI testing for these projects using Cypress, as well as user sessions tracking and logging via Hotjar and Logrocket.

Education

Education

  • Faculty of Science and Technology, Master of Science (MS), University of Tartu

    Aug, 2019 - Jul, 2022

    PostgreSQL

    DevOps

    Introduction to Cloud Computing

    Python programming (1,2,3)

    Web software development

    Geographical Information Systems

  • Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry

    Sep, 2015 - Jun, 2019

    Math

    Physics

    Introduction to Object-oriented programming

    Operating Systems

    Computer Networks

    Mathematical elements of Computing

Certificates

Certificates