Alex Prikhodchenko

DevOps Engineer

Contact via Telegram: @prikh0d

Summary

Results-driven DevOps Engineer with 3 years of experience in automating and optimizing mission-critical deployments in cloud environments, primarily Azure. Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipeline implementation (Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), scripting (Bash, Python), and Linux system administration. Seeking to leverage expertise in cloud automation and infrastructure management to enhance operational efficiency and system reliability.

Core Skills

Cloud Platforms

  • Microsoft Azure (VMs, App Service, AKS, Azure DevOps, Monitor, Networking, Storage)
  • AWS (EC2, S3, VPC - Basic/Intermediate)
  • GCP (GCE, GKE - Basic)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • Terraform
  • Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates / Bicep
  • Ansible

CI/CD

  • Azure Pipelines
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI

Containerization & Orchestration

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes (AKS, K3s, Helm)
  • Docker Compose

Operating Systems

  • Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL, Alpine)
  • Windows Server (Basic Administration)

Scripting & Programming

  • Bash / Shell Scripting
  • Python
  • PowerShell
  • YAML / JSON

Version Control

  • Git (GitHub, GitLab, Azure Repos)
  • Gitflow / Trunk-Based Development

Monitoring & Logging

  • Azure Monitor / Log Analytics
  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • Datadog (Basic)

Networking

  • TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S
  • Load Balancing, Firewalls (Azure Firewall, NSGs)
  • VPN, VNet Peering

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Quantori | August 2022 – April 2025

  • Developed Kubernetes /Helm configurations for manually deployed infrastructure.
  • Developed build and release pipelines.
  • Prepared dockerfiles for building backend, frontend, database, and other services.
  • Automated deployment by developing Python scripts for training models, which allowed to achieve fully automated deployment.
  • Maintained and updated Terraform code according to developers' requirements.
  • Supported the development team by creating a utility for cloud deployment for testing purposes.
  • Successfully migrated release pipelines to GitLab.
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines for new services during the transition from Windows to Linux platform
  • Provided support for the development and enhancement of pipelines, Terraform code, and Kubernetes/Helm configuration in alignment with developers' changes

Python Engineer

Komus, ltd. | Moscow | January 2022 – July 2022

  • Contributed to the development of the monitoring system.
  • Performed system tuning.
  • Extended the functionality of existing CMDB software (iTop) by adding collectors for VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, and Dell OpenManage.
  • Created monitoring system dashboards..

Personal Projects / Contributions

Terraform Modules for Azure

Developed reusable Terraform modules for common Azure resources (e.g., VNet, Subnets, NSGs, VM Scale Sets) adhering to best practices, published privately for team use (or publicly on GitHub/Terraform Registry if applicable).

Certifications

AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical) 2022

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) - 2022