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πŸš€ $ whoami

vitaly@lobachev:~$ cat profile.yaml
name: "Vitaly Lobachev"
location: "Amsterdam, Netherlands πŸ‡³πŸ‡±"
role: "Platform Engineer | DevOps Architect | AI Infrastructure Specialist"
education: "PhD in Engineering"
experience: "15+ years in IT Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering"
philosophy: |
  "Treat infrastructure like a product.
   Treat pipelines like code.
   Automate everything that's boring."
current_mission: "Exploring the frontier between DevOps, GitOps, and LLMOps"
status: "Available for interesting challenges 🟒"

πŸ’‘ Vitaly's Law of Automation

"If you can script it, you should. If you can't script it, you should find a way. And if you still can't, automate the search for a solution."


🧬 $ cat /proc/skills

⚑ Core Competencies Matrix

class VitalySkills:
    def __init__(self):
        self.expertise_level = "Senior+"

    @property
    def cloud_native(self):
        return {
            "orchestration": ["Kubernetes", "EKS", "Helm", "Istio", "MicroK8S"],
            "cloud_platforms": ["AWS (Advanced)", "Multi-Account Architecture"],
            "gitops": ["ArgoCD", "Argo Rollouts", "Flux"],
            "service_mesh": ["Istio", "Envoy"],
            "containers": ["Docker", "ECS", "Containerd"],
            "proficiency": "β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–‘ 95%"
        }

    @property
    def infrastructure_as_code(self):
        return {
            "tools": ["Terraform (Expert)", "Ansible", "Packer", "CloudFormation"],
            "patterns": ["Modular IaC", "Multi-Environment", "State Management"],
            "proficiency": "β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ 98%"
        }

    @property
    def cicd_automation(self):
        return {
            "platforms": ["GitHub Actions", "Jenkins", "GitLab CI", "TeamCity"],
            "strategies": ["Blue-Green", "Canary", "A/B Testing", "Progressive Delivery"],
            "proficiency": "β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–‘ 92%"
        }

    @property
    def observability(self):
        return {
            "monitoring": ["Prometheus", "Grafana", "Thanos"],
            "logging": ["ELK Stack", "Graylog", "CloudWatch"],
            "tracing": ["Jaeger", "AWS X-Ray"],
            "alerting": ["AlertManager", "PagerDuty Integration"],
            "proficiency": "β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–‘ 90%"
        }

    @property
    def data_infrastructure(self):
        return {
            "databases": ["PostgreSQL", "MongoDB", "MySQL", "Redis", "DynamoDB"],
            "warehouses": ["Snowflake", "Hadoop", "Hive"],
            "orchestration": ["Airflow", "DataHub"],
            "proficiency": "β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–‘β–‘ 85%"
        }

    @property
    def security_ops(self):
        return {
            "secrets_management": ["HashiCorp Vault", "AWS KMS", "AWS Secrets Manager"],
            "practices": ["Zero Trust", "Encryption at Rest/Transit", "Compliance Automation"],
            "network_security": ["VPC Design", "DDoS Protection", "WAF"],
            "proficiency": "β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–‘β–‘ 88%"
        }

    @property
    def ai_llmops(self):
        return {
            "platforms": ["Onyx GenAI", "LiteLLM", "Claude Code"],
            "infrastructure": ["GPU Clusters", "Model Serving", "Vector DBs"],
            "automation": ["LLM CI/CD", "Model Deployment Pipelines"],
            "status": "πŸ”₯ Current Focus Area",
            "proficiency": "β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–‘β–‘ 80% (rapidly growing)"
        }

πŸ› οΈ Technology Arsenal

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Docker Python Prometheus Grafana ArgoCD GitHub Actions Ansible Jenkins PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Snowflake


πŸ’Ό $ cat work_history.log

[2024-PRESENT] INFO  Platform Engineer @ Bitvavo (Crypto Infrastructure)
               β”œβ”€ Built fault-tolerant, highly available AWS + Kubernetes infrastructure
               β”œβ”€ Automated deployment of 50+ blockchain wallet nodes with Terraform + ArgoCD
               β”œβ”€ Implemented progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts (Blue-Green, Canary)
               β”œβ”€ Integrated Snowflake data warehouse with MongoDB Atlas
               └─ Achievement: 99.9% uptime with automated recovery systems

[2022-2024]   INFO  Senior DevOps Engineer @ DataArt / Experiment X
               β”œβ”€ Designed multi-account AWS architecture with Control Tower
               β”œβ”€ Migrated legacy services to Kubernetes with Istio service mesh
               β”œβ”€ Built comprehensive CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
               β”œβ”€ Implemented unified observability: Prometheus + Grafana + Thanos
               └─ Achievement: Reduced deployment time by 75%

[2020-2022]   INFO  Project Lead & DevOps @ Samson-opt / Rework
               β”œβ”€ Led infrastructure automation initiatives
               β”œβ”€ Established IaC practices with Terraform and Ansible
               β”œβ”€ Set up centralized logging and monitoring solutions
               └─ Achievement: Automated 90% of manual infrastructure tasks

[2015-2020]   INFO  Full-Stack Engineer β†’ DevOps Specialist
               β”œβ”€ Transitioned from application development to infrastructure
               β”œβ”€ Built CI/CD pipelines for diverse tech stacks
               └─ Achievement: Pioneered DevOps culture in multiple organizations

πŸ—οΈ Featured Projects

🌟 Flagship Projects

πŸ€– LLM Infrastructure Automation

const project = {
  challenge: "Deploy AI infrastructure at scale",
  solution: [
    "Automated 50+ wallet node deployments",
    "Integrated MongoDB Atlas + Snowflake",
    "Built LLM-specific CI/CD pipelines"
  ],
  impact: "Enabled rapid AI model deployment",
  tech: ["AWS", "Terraform", "ArgoCD", "K8s"]
};

βš“ Kubernetes + Istio Migration

const project = {
  challenge: "Modernize legacy infrastructure",
  solution: [
    "Multi-account AWS with Control Tower",
    "Service mesh with Istio + Envoy",
    "Progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts"
  ],
  impact: "10x deployment frequency increase",
  tech: ["K8s", "Istio", "AWS", "GitOps"]
};

πŸ“Š Unified Observability Platform

const project = {
  challenge: "Fragmented monitoring landscape",
  solution: [
    "Centralized Prometheus + Thanos",
    "Grafana dashboards for all services",
    "Automated alerting with PagerDuty"
  ],
  impact: "MTTD reduced by 80%",
  tech: ["Prometheus", "Grafana", "Thanos"]
};

πŸ” Security-First Architecture

const project = {
  challenge: "Compliance + high availability",
  solution: [
    "HashiCorp Vault secrets management",
    "AWS KMS encryption everywhere",
    "Self-healing HAProxy with liveness probes"
  ],
  impact: "Zero security incidents",
  tech: ["Vault", "KMS", "HAProxy", "K8s"]
};

πŸ“ˆ $ git log --graph --all --decorate --oneline

GitHub Stats GitHub Streak Top Languages Activity Graph

🐍 Watch My Contributions Get Eaten!

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🎯 $ cat mission_control.conf

[CURRENT_FOCUS]
primary = "Advancing in LLMOps and AI Infrastructure"
secondary = "Building curated DevOps best practices repositories"
tertiary = "Contributing to open-source infrastructure projects"

[LEARNING_QUEUE]
next_up = ["Advanced RAG Systems", "Vector Databases at Scale", "MLOps Patterns"]
in_progress = ["Claude SDK", "Anthropic API Integration", "LLM Fine-tuning Pipelines"]

[CONTRIBUTION_GOALS]
open_source = true
knowledge_sharing = true
community_building = true

[STATUS]
availability = "Open to interesting challenges and collaborations"

🌐 $ nslookup vitaly.lobachev

Find Me Across The Internet

GitHub Personal DevOps Practices AI Technologies LinkedIn

# Quick access aliases
alias personal="cd https://github.com/vlobachev"
alias devops-wisdom="cd https://github.com/devops-best-practices"
alias ai-frontier="cd https://github.com/best-aI-technologies"
alias connect="open https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitalylobachev"

πŸ’‘ Philosophy & Wisdom

"The best way to predict the future is to automate it. The second best way is to version control it. The third best way is to monitor it relentlessly."


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🀝 Let's Collaborate

πŸš€ Interested in Collaboration?

I'm always excited to discuss:

βœ“ Complex infrastructure challenges βœ“ Cloud-native architecture design βœ“ GitOps and progressive delivery strategies βœ“ AI/LLM infrastructure and operations βœ“ Open-source DevOps tooling βœ“ Knowledge sharing and mentorship


πŸ“§ Reach out via LinkedIn for professional inquiries ⭐ Star my repositories if you find them useful πŸ”„ Fork, contribute, and let's build something amazing


"Give me a well-architected system and a good CI/CD pipeline, and I shall move mountains... automatically, with monitoring."

β€” Vitaly Lobachev


⚑ Infrastructure is Poetry in Production ⚑

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βš™οΈ This README is automatically awesome β€’ Built with passion for infrastructure β€’ Deployed with GitOps β€’ Monitored 24/7

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