Alexander P.

Kubernetes Orchestration Expert with extensive experience architecting and managing production-grade clusters across AWS EKS and self-hosted environments. Skilled in implementing advanced networking configurations, resource optimization, and designing CI/CD-friendly deployment patterns that maximize reliability and minimize downtime. LLM Infrastructure Engineer specializing in production deployment of AI systems. Expert in vector database implementation (Pinecone, QDrant), prompt engineering, and building cost-efficient inference pipelines at scale. Experienced with OpenAI API integration and custom model deployment. AWS Infrastructure Architect with 5+ years of experience designing and implementing resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud environments. Deep knowledge of AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, ALB, Security Hub, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, IAM, Control Tower, Organizations, S3, KMS, Secrets Manager, and WAF. Security Engineering Specialist focused on implementing defense-in-depth strategies across cloud environments. Experienced in conducting security audits, implementing least-privilege access controls, and designing systems that maintain compliance while enabling developer productivity. Certifications AWS Solutions Architect Professional AWS Security Specialty AWS Solutions Architect Associate HashiCorp Terraform Associate Client Success Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Amazing work! Alex is knowledgeable, responsive, and extremely diligent. Working with someone with expert knowledge of both DevOps and security has helped us immensely in passing our Amazon SP-API security audit, which involved migrating all of our infrastructure to AWS on very short notice and adding numerous layers of security. I HIGHLY recommend Alex to anybody looking for a DevOps or security expert (especially if you need both!)" - CEO of CCEN Industry Experience FinTech & Trading: Designed low-latency infrastructure for mission-critical financial services AI-First Startups: Implemented scalable infrastructure for AI/ML workloads SaaS Applications: Created multi-tenant architectures optimized for security and performance Technical Proficiencies Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi CI/CD Automation: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI/CD Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS), ECS (Fargate, EC2) GitOps: ArgoCD Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, New Relic, Datadog, FluentBit Identity Management: IAM, Okta Cloud Security: Siems, Security Hub, Audits, Compliance Programming: Python, Go, Typescript Availability M-F 5pm-11pm EST, Weekends 6am-10pm EST