Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer with 18+ years of experience designing, modernizing, and operating high-traffic distributed systems. Proven track record leading infrastructure transformation initiatives from legacy VM-based platforms to containerized Kubernetes/OpenShift environments using GitOps and Infrastructure as Code.
Strong focus on reliability engineering, automation, developer enablement, and scalable system design. Experienced in bridging backend engineering and platform operations to deliver secure, observable, and production-grade systems across enterprise and high-growth environments.

Led backend design and development of payment, accounting, and subscription services supporting high-load traffic for global users. Designed and maintained RESTful APIs with clean architecture principles, emphasizing scalability and extensibility. Championed microservices adoption, decomposing monoliths to services with proper API contracts, logging, and fault tolerance. Served as key contributor for transition the organization toward containerization and orchestration, laying groundwork for future Kubernetes adoption. PHP Go Docker Kubernetes Terraform Helm Prometheus Grafana MySQL Chef PHPUnit Behat CI/Jenkins LAMP SOA PayPal Zuora OSB Symfony Silex Memcache Rabbit MQ SOAP REST SVN Git Scrum Kanban

Worked with several small media agencies delivering custom web solutions (from microsites to complex webshops with integrated depository records) and applications. My long term client was the gal6.com which is a complex round based strategy game. PHP MySQL MSSQL CSS HTML JavaScript Symfony 1.4 Symfony 2 LAMP E-commerce Memcache SVN Git

PolePosition (former First Class Group Ltd.) is a web media agency. I started here as a junior web developer. We made many different websites, webshops and intranet management applications for many different customers. Promoted to Lead Developer, managing a team of five engineers. PHP MySQL CSS HTML JavaScript E-commerce