Curriculum Vitae
Moushegh Amirbekyan
DevOps Airborne · Platform Architect · Cloud & Infrastructure Expert
Yerevan, Armenia·[email protected]·(+374) 94 27-01-92
Open source enthusiast and terminal loyalist. I build small systems, boring infrastructure and teams that can operate both. "All ingenious is simple" - production is where you find out if that's true.
Experience
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StackKubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Argo CD
DevOps Lead
Deep Origin
Built the cloud-native substrate for a Kubernetes Operator - infrastructure code, CI/CD and ephemeral environments that appear and disappear on request.
- Architected cloud-native infrastructure for a Kubernetes Operator, with the operator's lifecycle as the design constraint
- Wrote infrastructure as code that another engineer could read without a meeting
- Designed CI/CD that was boring in the best sense: fast, deterministic and hard to break
- Delivered automated ephemeral environments that rolled into isolated AWS accounts in 15 minutes
- Built centralized observability - Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry - so incidents had evidence
- Grew the team to five across the Americas and Europe; hired, mentored and handed over
StackKubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana
Senior DevOps Engineer
Verve Group
Owned GCP infrastructure as code and led the migration from the legacy estate to the new platform - while both were still running.
- Built cloud-native GCP infrastructure in Terraform, reviewable and reproducible
- Maintained the legacy estate while completing the migration, which is the professional way of saying "two jobs"
- Built automated development environments that followed the best practices we kept telling everyone about
- Adopted and hosted new in-house and outsourced projects without inheriting their surprises
StackGoogle Cloud (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, NGINX
DevOps Engineer
DataArt
Operational support and automation across client platforms, with security and observability as the recurring themes.
- Provided ongoing operational support with a bias toward automation and security improvements
- Designed self-service tools and automation workflows so teams could stop filing tickets for the obvious
- Worked with DevOps teams and stakeholders to improve CI/CD pipelines and processes
- Improved monitoring, alerting and performance tuning until the noise-to-signal ratio was tolerable
- Supported Kubernetes environments and the container workflows around them
StackKubernetes, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch
DevOps and Platform Developer
Toptal
Consulting engagements across industries, usually to stabilise, optimise or unblock platform work that has stopped moving.
- Consultancy and expert services for global clients across healthcare, education, R&D, media and e-commerce
- Short interventions and long collaborations, depending on how deep the damage went
- Dropped into active projects to stabilise, optimise or get them back on track
- Supported teams with DevOps architecture, cloud infrastructure and CI/CD improvements
- Left each engagement with documentation, so the next person did not have to reverse-engineer my decisions
StackTerraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Helm
Head of SRE Department
BetConstruct
Led the SRE department through operations, cost and process improvements - the part of engineering that shows up on an invoice.
- Drove operations improvements across a 20+ person department, mostly by removing work that did not need to exist
- Cut infrastructure costs without making reliability the sacrifice
- Turned tribal knowledge into standard practices the team could actually follow
- Managed vendor sourcing and contract negotiations; procurement is just capacity planning with lawyers
- Hired, mentored and kept a distributed team pointed at the same problems
- Owned the compliance conversations - SOC2, NIST, ISO 27001 - with evidence rather than optimism
StackKubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, NGINX, HAProxy, RHEL / CentOS / Rocky Linux
Senior Unix/Linux Systems Engineer
BetConstruct
Ran Linux systems and built the company's in-house CI/CD platform, back when buying one was not an option.
- Administered Linux systems across bare metal, virtual hosts and the first containers that stuck
- Built and supported open source infrastructure instead of waiting for a vendor roadmap
- Implemented monitoring and alerting that could tell the difference between "busy" and "broken"
- Developed a proprietary CI/CD system, because the build pipeline is a product whether you treat it as one or not
- Designed and deployed large infrastructures spanning bare metal, VMs and containers
- Ran root cause analysis: found the cause, fixed the cause, wrote down what the cause taught us
StackRHEL / CentOS / Rocky Linux, Ansible, Jenkins, NGINX, HAProxy, Prometheus, Zabbix
Unix/Linux Systems Engineer
BetConstruct
Unix/Linux, virtualisation, DNS, web and proxy services across an estate that grew faster than the documentation.
- Administered Unix/Linux systems across a mixed estate of physical, virtual and early container workloads
- Built and supported NFS, DNS, web and proxy servers, the unglamorous plumbing everything else depends on
- Administered the virtualisation layer, back when "cloud" still meant a room with a door
- Managed the Cloudflare enterprise account via API, because clicking through a console at scale is not a strategy
- Automated the repeatable work in Bash and Perl; the rest was on-call
- Covered after-hours and holiday support and learned which alerts deserved a phone call
StackRHEL / CentOS / Rocky Linux, NGINX, HAProxy, DNS, KVM, Bash, Perl
NOC Engineer
BetConstruct
Kept the lights on before "observability" was a budget line. Monitoring, alerting and automation for a 24/7 operation.
- Implemented system monitoring and alerting before it had a fashionable name
- Built proactive monitoring and preventative action plans, so outages were something we found before users did
- Automated the daily procedures that were quietly eating the team's mornings
- Managed the Google Apps enterprise account, back when that was a whole job
- Carried after-hours and holiday on-call, which is where operational empathy comes from
StackZabbix, Nagios, Bash, RHEL / CentOS / Rocky Linux
Skills
Cloud Computing
Google Cloud (GCP), AWS, Azure, IONOS, Aliyun, OTC, Hetzner, OCI
Linux/UNIX administration
RHEL / CentOS / Rocky Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, OpenBSD, FreeBSD
Orchestration
GKE, EKS, OKE, Kubernetes, K3s, OpenShift, Rancher
IaaC
Terraform, OpenTofu, Tilt, Terrapod, Terragrunt
Configuration Management
Ansible, Chef, Puppet
CI/CD
Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bitbucket CI, GitHub Actions, Argo Events, Argo Workflows, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Kargo, Werf, Cloud Native Buildpacks
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Thanos, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, FluentBit, Langfuse, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Zabbix, Nagios
Service Mesh
Linkerd, Istio, Cilium
Package Management
Helm, dep, rpm, Porter
Workflow Automation
Knative, n8n, Kubeflow, Apache Airflow, Koreo
AI/ML
OpenLLM, Ollama, OpenDevin, LiteLLM, vLLM, llm-d
Web
NGINX, Kong, OpenResty, Apache, lighttpd
Proxy
HAProxy, Squid, Envoy, Traefik
Caching
Varnish, Redis, Memcached
Database
PostgreSQL, CloudNativePG, MySQL, ClickHouse, SQLite, MongoDB, Tarantool
Messaging
Kafka, Zookeeper, VerneMQ, Memphis
Source Version Control
Git, GitHub, GitLab, gitolite, SVN
Vulnerability Assessment
OpenVAS, Trivy, Nessus
Policy Management
Kyverno, OPA
Chaos Engineering
Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos
Provisioning
Vagrant, Packer, Karpenter
Containerization
Docker, containerd, LXC
DNS
BIND, CoreDNS, KubeDNS, Cloudflare API
SMTP
Exim, Postfix, Mailu
Virtualization
KVM, ESXi
Scripting
Bash, Go, Perl
AlsoInfrastructure architecture · Penetration testing · Problem resolution · Team management
Selected Projects
- DevOps Skills Demo · Demo
- Deep Origin OS · Deep Origin
- ESPX® · Bax Energy Italia Srl
- Cubiks E-commerce Platform · Cubikssoft
- Platform161 · Verve Group
- Urbana IoT Suite · Urbana Smart Solutions
- Inka · Dr.Pfleger Arzneimittel
- Magnosco · Magnosco GmbH
- EuXFEL Trainings · European XFEL
- DocDay · SureCompanies Inc.
- allynow.com · Ally Inc.
- VBet.com · BetConstruct
Education
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Bachelor Degree, Information Technologies
European Regional Educational Academy · Yerevan, Armenia
2011 - 2013
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Studies, Informatics and Applied Mathematics
Yerevan State University · Yerevan, Armenia
2008 - 2011
Languages
Armenian · English · Russian