Stas S.

Hi, I'm Stas. Cloud/DevOps engineer with 10+ years of experience. I help companies build reliable infrastructure, automate operations, and solve complex system problems. I've worked across startups and established products - from setting up infrastructure from scratch to optimizing costs and scaling systems that handle real traffic. Notable work: I co-architected Cloudways Autonomous, a Kubernetes-based autoscaling hosting platform (now it's part of Digital Ocean) I prefer clear communication and understanding the actual problem before jumping to solutions. Recently I've been working on the infrastructure side of LLM and agent applications - deployment, CI/CD, and observability for AI workloads. It's a natural extension of DevOps work, and a growing share of what I do. I prefer clear communication and understanding the actual problem before jumping into solutions. What I do well - Cloud architecture and migration (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean) - Kubernetes: setup, migration, troubleshooting (EKS, GKE, AKS, bare metal) - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible) - CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, ArgoCD) - Monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic) - Cost optimization and security hardening - Python and Bash automation - Deploying and operating LLM/agent applications in production Good fit for - We need to migrate to Kubernetes but don't know where to start - Our AWS bill is growing and we're not sure why - CI/CD is a mess, deployments are painful - We need someone to audit our infrastructure - We're shipping an LLM or agent application and need solid deployment, CI/CD, and monitoring around it