Pavel Smolin

Pavel Smolin

Senior DevOps Engineer

Indonesia

Everybody is talking, but I am acting. I am an engineer with 6+ years of experience in DevOps, hardware and cloud solutions (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS), specializing in platform development for Highload systems. Successfully migrated iGaming client's services from VMware to OpenStack, implemented monitoring and logging systems, ensuring stable operation of Highload infrastructures. I have experience in Blockchain since 2020: GPU dualmining, DeFi/Staking, node running - Cloud and Bare Metal - Ethereum, BSC, Aptos, Solana, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Polygon, IronFish etc. Optimized Kubernetes deployment processes and introduced Agile methodology into teams. I mentor staff and implement best DevOps practices and automation within Betting infrastructure.

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Skills

Kubernetes (RKE2) Docker Linux AWS DigitalOcean Hetzner Yandex Cloud OpenStack Terraform Ansible CI/CD GitOps ArgoCD FluxCD Grafana Prometheus ELK Stack Zabbix Sentry HAProxy Nginx Consul Bare Metal IaC Agile Blockchain Infra Keycloak PostgreSQL MSSQL ClickHouse Oracle Go Python Cloudflare Minio S3 Harbor SonarQube

Infrastructure at Scale

Managed solo as a one-person IT department

210+
Hosts Managed
4
K8s Clusters
250+
Deploys / Day
20+
DB Instances
74
CI/CD Pipelines
163
Repositories
150+
Web Endpoints
30+
Platform Services

Platform Services

CI/CD & Registry
Bamboo Octopus Deploy Bitbucket Harbor Registry Proget
Identity & Auth
Keycloak FreeIPA Samba AD
Observability
Grafana Prometheus ELK Seq Sentry
Networking & VPN
Nebula VPN Pritunl Amnezia 3x-ui Cloak Consul
Databases
Oracle MSSQL PostgreSQL 14-17 MySQL ClickHouse
Dev Tools
SonarQube Flagsmith Backstage Weblate Superset Strapi

Experience

Onlanta
Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes)
  • Transitioned team to Agile methodology, reducing overhead time by 34%
  • Integrated AI-driven infrastructure services using OpenRouter/HuggingFace
  • Implemented automated employee onboarding system utilizing Open WebUI
  • Optimized Kubernetes platform with IaC, reducing deployment time on Bare Metal by 54%
  • Refactored platform architecture, leading to 38% cost reduction in DigitalOcean cloud
  • Containerized k8s platform services, resulting in 17% reduction in resource consumption
  • Implemented multi-stage Docker builds in CI/CD (Go, Rust, Python), accelerating build time by 22%
  • Developed Blockchain RPC provider project - Ethereum, Bitcoin, BSC, Polygon, Aptos, Solana with Cloudflare balancing
  • Managed Blockchain project with 100 Taiko Fullnodes (DigitalOcean), cloud SGX Prover, self-hosted Ethereum Beacon node
DataLine Co., Ltd
Senior DevOps Engineer (Cloud Operations)
  • Configured HAProxy load balancing between OpenStack regions, achieving 99.8% SLA
  • Implemented monitoring (Grafana) and logging (ELK + Elastic ML), reducing downtime by 68%
  • Architected OpenStack cloud to replace unsupported VMware, aligning with business and technical goals
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines for Dev/Stage/Prod on OpenStack bare-metal, reducing update time from days to 1 hour
  • Migrated Blockchain client resources (Aptos, Ironfish, Nibiru, Starknet, Supra, etc.) from VMware to OpenStack with zero downtime
Tax & Financial Group
Senior DevOps Engineer (Infrastructure)
  • Reorganized OpenStack SDS, speeding up VM deployment by 2.3x
  • Designed geo-distributed bare-metal cluster architecture and DRP
  • Introduced Ansible for configuration management, reducing errors by 27%
  • Implemented Agile methodology, reducing deployment cycle from 1 month to 1 week
  • Developed technical documentation for successful FSTEC Level 1 security certification
  • Optimized Zabbix monitoring, reducing metrics from 322,000 to 118,000 (3.8x reduction)
  • Managed support for high-load system with 514 Bare-Metal Servers, maintaining 99.8% SLA

Education

PhD, Computer and Information Sciences
MADI (State Technical University)
2009 - 2011
Engineer, Automated Information Processing and Control Systems
MADI (State Technical University)
2000 - 2006
MBA, Marketing Management
Synergy University
2020 - 2022
Business Administration and Management
Vladimir Tarasov's Management School
2019 - 2020

Certifications

CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator (The Linux Foundation)
Advanced Administration and Troubleshooting of Virtualization Platform
Tionix Openstack Cloud Platform
AI Translation