Denis Iskandarov

Lead DevOps Engineer DevOps consulting — cloud or on-prem, with cutting-edge tooling. Automation, IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes. 15+ years building reliable infrastructure and reducing costs.

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I'm a DevOps engineer focused on cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and helping teams build reliable production systems. My core stack is Kubernetes in cloud or on-premises, with Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and a mix of open-source and SaaS observability.

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15+ years in IT

Started as sysadmin/netadmin in 2005; engineering DevOps platforms since 2015. CS degree from Georgian Technical University.

Cloud-native specialist

CKA + AWS Solutions Architect certified. Production Kubernetes since 2017 — from on-prem kops clusters to multi-environment EKS at multi-million-user scale.

Based in Tbilisi, Georgia

Working remotely with teams worldwide. English, Georgian, Russian.

Services

Independent consulting across the DevOps and infrastructure stack.

DevOps & SRE

Cloud-native production systems — practices, automation, incident response, team enablement. Bringing healthy DevOps culture and processes to engineering teams.

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS / GCP architecture with Terraform / OpenTofu / Terragrunt. Multi-environment setups, migration from legacy data centers, cost optimization.

Kubernetes Platforms

EKS, on-prem, k3s, Talos. Karpenter, ArgoCD / FluxCD, GitOps workflows. From small clusters to multi-thousand-node production environments.

Observability & Reliability

Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, OTEL stacks. Metrics, logs, traces, alerting — so production fails loudly and recovers quickly.

Backend Development

Go, Python, and Bash for tooling, data processing, internal services, and CLI utilities supporting the platform layer.

Cost Optimization

Right-sizing, spot, Karpenter, autoscaling, IaC drift cleanup. Reducing infrastructure spend without sacrificing reliability.

Stack

Cloud-native production stack across orchestration, IaC, observability, and languages.

Kubernetes

Cloud (EKS, GKE), on-prem (Talos, k3s), Karpenter, Helm

CI/CD

ArgoCD, FluxCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Ansible

Cloud

AWS, GCP — multi-account, multi-environment

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Atlantis

Observability

Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Fluent(d|bit), DataDog

Networking

Cilium, HAProxy, service meshes, Cisco, Mikrotik, Ubiquiti

Languages

Go, Python, Bash

Data

PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Contact

Based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Remote engagements worldwide.

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