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Work Experience

• Site Reliability Engineer, Fastmarkets

  Sep, 2023 - Mar, 20251 year 6 months

  Taking care of production mission-critical systems, low latency and time sensitive (real time data product).

  • Deploying, migrating and maintaining Kubernetes AKS clusters

  • Migrating Azure Tenants and Networks. Team City and Octopus migrations and decommissioning

  • Optimized Ansible automations, Terraform IaC and CI/CD pipelines

  • Security implementation of SPbD, automation of patching, mitigations and Sec in DevOps

• DevOps Engineer, IBM

  Mar, 2022 - Aug, 20231 year 5 months

  Creation, monitoring, maintenance and security of different environments.

  • Deployment and provisioning Kubernetes clusters and containerization environments

  • Creation of different CI and CD pipelines with GitOps practices

  • Onboarding and supporting different teams as users into the DevOps pipelines

  • Maintain and improve IaaC, deployment, scripting and Python codebase

• Junior DevOps Engineer → DevOps Engineer, Worldline Global

  Apr, 2021 - Mar, 202211 months

  Advocating DevOps culture to different teams in order to adopt DevOps practices.

  • Implementation of automations, decoupling of Java mission critical applications

  • Scheduling of maintenance, monitoring and alerting through automation with Ansible

  • Developed from scratch an automated E2E UI Test suite in Python

  • Created a collection of Ansible playbooks used to control a large number of servers

  • Contributed to multiple IaaC and deployment pipelines

  • Mentored and onboarded DevOps & Integrators with trainings and presentations

• Application Administrator & Software developer, Raiffeisen Bank

  Apr, 2020 - Apr, 20211 year

  Linux systems and software administration with Java and Javascript development of mission critical applications.

  • Tooling installation and troubleshooting

  • Java and Javascript development of 2 mission critical applications

  • Kickoff DevOps enabling practices and shifts in the Agile team and mentoring

  • Extended vendors software with algorithms for Bulgarian Official docs

• Customer Success Manager & Onboarding Specialist, Red Hat

  Nov, 2018 - Apr, 20201 year 5 months

  Provided technical guidance and developed onboarding materials for cloud technologies.

  • Developed technical onboarding guides and documentation for OpenStack and OpenShift implementations

  • Advocated for workload migration to containerization and virtualization environments during early adoption phase

  • Provided technical guidance on cloud native architecture and Kubernetes adoption strategies

  • Conducted technical workshops on infrastructure modernization and DevOps practices

  • Created custom deployment strategies for enterprise clients transitioning to containerized workloads

Projects Experience

• Zero Trust Azure Transformation

  - Present

  Designed and implemented a complete Zero Trust architecture for Azure environments using Conditional Access policies, Azure AD PIM, and Workload Identity Federation.

  • Implemented persona-based access model with ring-based policy deployment

  • Created CI/CD pipeline for policy management using Microsoft365DSC

  • Designed exclusion management system with automated reviews

  • Enhanced security monitoring with Azure Sentinel integration

  • Reduced attack surface through elimination of service principals

  • Improved compliance with automated reporting and auditing

• kubectl.shop E-commerce Platform

  - Present

  Created an innovative Kubernetes-native e-commerce platform where customers shop using kubectl.

  • Built terminal interface with Next.js

  • Created isolated customer namespaces for secure shopping

  • Deployed with GitOps using ArgoCD

  • Implemented cost-effective infrastructure on a single VPS with Kubeadm

  • Utilized MetalLB, Calico, and Traefik for networking

• Enterprise Kubernetes Platform

  - Present

  Developed a comprehensive Kubernetes management solution enabling centralized control across multiple environments (Hub & Spoke Architecture).

  • Built with GitOps principles using ArgoCD

  • Featured advanced monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

  • Implemented zero-trust security architecture

• Cross-Region Logging System

  - Present

  Engineered a sophisticated logging system bridging multiple regions with enterprise-grade security.

  • Implemented secure log forwarding with multi-layer security including mTLS and HMAC signing

  • Designed security gateways with advanced request validation

  • Created automated certificate management systems

• HAND (Homelab Automation & Network Deployment)

  - Present

  A personal project leveraging Infrastructure as Code, self-hosting, Kubernetes, and containerization to create a fully automated home lab environment for testing and learning new technologies.

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