Dmitriy M.

Every hour of downtime costs your enterprise an average of $540,000. That's not a DevOps metric - that's a board-level problem. I design and operate infrastructure that stays up. My specialty is the full observability and reliability stack: detecting failures before users do, recovering in minutes, not hours, and building the self-healing systems that let your engineering team sleep at night. With $400K+ earned on Upwork, 100% Job Success Score, and 10+ years in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, I bring the broadest monitoring stack you'll find in one engineer: Prometheus · Grafana · Datadog · ELK Stack · Zabbix · Sumo Logic - combined with deep Kubernetes and cloud expertise. Typical Problems I Solve → Production incidents are frequent, and MTTR is too high → No observability - issues discovered by users, not monitoring → Need DevOps engineer for high availability infrastructure setup → Kubernetes clusters experiencing performance or reliability issues → Disaster recovery plan missing or untested → AI workloads need reliable, observable infrastructure Proven Client Results ▪️ iLost Platform (Netherlands) → Challenge: EKS performance degrading, CI/CD unstable across Dev/Staging/Production, and OpenSearch causing timeouts. → Solution: EKS rightsizing, CI/CD pipeline optimization, IAM hardening, OpenSearch performance tuning. → Business Impact: Reduced bottlenecks, improved release predictability, and optimized infrastructure costs. ▪️ Qopla Infrastructure → Challenge: Long-term SRE engagement - ongoing reliability, monitoring, and performance needs. → Solution: Continuous SRE operations, incident management, and infrastructure optimization. → Business Impact: 657-hour engagement demonstrating sustained impact. Rate progressed $40/hr → $52/hr based on results. ▪️ GetChecked (Blockchain / Multi-cloud) → Challenge: Multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS + DigitalOcean + bare-metal) with Hyperledger Fabric in a regulated environment. → Solution: Upgraded Hyperledger Fabric, implemented monitoring, backup, DR/BCP, optimized CI/CD pipelines. → Business Impact: Increased system reliability and security in a strict regulatory context. Core SRE Capabilities → DORA metrics: Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, MTTR, Change Failure Rate - measured and improved → Incident Management & On-Call: Runbooks, escalation paths, post-mortems → Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity planning and testing → Zero Trust Security: IAM, RBAC, SELinux, network hardening → High Availability: Multi-AZ, failover, load balancing, autoscaling → AI workload reliability: observability for ML pipelines and LLM infrastructure Stack: AWS · GCP · Kubernetes · Terraform · Ansible · Prometheus · Grafana · ELK Stack · Datadog · Zabbix · Docker · Linux · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Incident Response Plan · Disaster Recovery Available during US business hours (EST/PST overlap). Downtime is a solved problem - if you have the right observability. Send an invite and let's audit your reliability posture.