Andrei Shvedau

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Warsaw, Poland

About

DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience architecting and maintaining high-availability production systems. Specialized in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and observability solutions for enterprise clients. Proven track record of reducing infrastructure costs, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and decreasing incident resolution times.

My other passions include sports🏂, nature🌲, chess♟, podcasts 🎧 and understanding the world 🤔. I'm also keen on sports and various productivity tools and practices.

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

August 2024 - Present

Oxagile – adTech project

▹Executed zero-downtime Kafka cluster migration by developing critical Python service features, ensuring no user impact across 50+ microservices
▹Facilitated the Databricks migration from the deprecated solution to new bundles schemas and templates
▹Daily internal support for the team of 300+ developers with average MTTR of 15 minutes

Senior DevOps Engineer (Part-time)

January 2024 - Present

Infomediji

▹Reduced deployment time by 70% through designing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes environments
▹Decreased MTTR by 40% by designing and deploying comprehensive Kubernetes observability stack using Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, and Loki
▹Achieved 60% infrastructure coverage with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementation for hybrid-cloud using Terraform, Terragrunt, and Atlantis

DevOps Engineer

August 2021 - August 2024

AdmiralMarkets

▹Engineered and maintained production-grade Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal infrastructure using Kubespray and Ansible, achieving 90% Infrastructure as Code automation and 99.8% uptime
▹Re-designed and implemented a PCI-DSS compliant AWS environment using Terraform, resulting in 60% cost reduction while maintaining security compliance through 3 successful annual audits
▹Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines for 50+ developers using GitLab, Helm, and Rancher, reducing deployment failures by 85% and accelerating release cycles
▹Implemented a comprehensive observability stack (ELK, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) that decreased Mean Time To Awareness by 30 minutes and improved incident response
▹Boosted team efficiency by 35% through implementing an agile Kanban workflow and creating comprehensive technical documentation of 200+ pages

Systems Engineer / Application Owner

December 2019 - August 2021

EPAM

▹Setting and maintaining large Data Analytics platform (2000+ concurrent pods running for data processing) and its infrastructure in Azure: 4 k8s clusters
▹Implemented comprehensive observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, and Splunk, enabling proactive issue resolution and performance optimization
▹Streamlined infrastructure deployment and management by implementing Infrastructure as Code practices with Terraform for Azure Kubernetes environments