Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of experience spanning from system administration to leading complex multi-cloud infrastructure projects. Currently at JFrog (post-Qwak acquisition), focusing on security hardening and SSDLC implementation. Additionally providing freelance DevOps consulting for early-stage startups through FastCTO platform since 2022.
Proven track record of dramatic efficiency improvements: reduced deployment time from weeks to days, optimized Terraform configurations by 93%, and led successful Kubernetes migrations. Helped 15+ startups rapidly launch to production. Expertise in multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), Infrastructure as Code, and building scalable automation solutions. Passionate about eliminating manual processes and enabling development teams through robust DevOps practices.
Skills
Experience
After Qwak acquisition by JFrog, transitioned to focus on security and cloud infrastructure integration.
- Led security hardening initiatives across infrastructure (SSDLC implementation)
- Aligned infrastructure with JFrog security standards and compliance requirements
- Transformed development approach through security-first practices
- Participated in JFrog cloud integration and migration processes
- Implemented comprehensive security checks and vulnerability remediation
- Maintained production stability during organizational transition
Providing rapid DevOps consulting for early-stage startups (pre-seed/seed rounds) through FastCTO platform.
- Helped 15+ startups launch to production, typically within days
- Rapid CI/CD pipeline setup from scratch using GitHub Actions
- Multi-environment infrastructure (dev/staging/prod) configuration
- Cloud infrastructure setup and cost optimization for MVPs
- APM and monitoring setup (Datadog, Google Cloud Operations)
- Google App Engine deployments with Cloud SQL integration
- AWS deployments using EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, and RDS
Managed multi-cloud infrastructure for ML platform serving 40-50+ customer clusters at peak.
- Terraform Optimization: Reduced environment configuration from 1500 to 100 lines using functions and overrides
- Bootstrap Time: Decreased new environment provisioning from 1 week to 1 day
- Change Management: Reduced infrastructure change time from 4 hours to 15-20 minutes
- Developed custom spot instance exporter in Go - enabled differentiation between platform issues and cloud provider spot terminations
- Migrated from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics, drastically reducing resource consumption
- Migrated product dashboards to VictoriaMetrics stack
- Developed first GCP infrastructure prototype (joined when AWS was established)
- Collaborated closely with development teams on Helm charts and deployment strategies
- Maintained multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) from inception
Led a DevOps team of 5 engineers, responsible for planning sprints, facilitating retrospectives, and driving automation development.
- Led DevOps automation development process
- Created principal schemes and tested future solutions
- Implemented security requirements in code
- Improved internal deployment framework
- Collaborated closely with developers for fast production shipping
Worked on an eCommerce Platform from Israel, creating automation for the internal platform system.
- Automated the whole process from commits to production delivery
- Built database promotion automation with AWS RDS and Jenkins
- Created onboarding scripts for internal use
Promoted to Senior DevOps Engineer position with expanded responsibilities.
- 2018: Decreased time-to-market from 2 weeks to 2 days per microservice
- 2019: Implemented Kubernetes for cost optimization
- 2020: Completed full migration to Kubernetes
- Created Terraform modules and Helm charts for projects
- Maintained GlusterFS, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Redis clusters
Started as a middle DevOps Engineer in a startup with flat organization.
- Developed onboarding process that reduced manual actions by 80%
- Stabilized backup system
- Wrote Ansible playbooks and roles for CI/CD process
Duty engineer maintaining a platform for writers and customers.
- Decreased server setup time by 50% through Puppet improvements
- Reduced debugging time by 50%
- Rewrote shell scripts in Ruby for Puppet Server
Delivered RDP solutions and Microsoft services for clients.
- Successfully integrated 20+ companies from scratch in 2 years
- Handled full lifecycle: requirements, planning, implementation, support
What I Can Help With
☁️ Cloud Infrastructure
- Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Kubernetes cluster setup & optimization
- Cost optimization & resource management
- Infrastructure migration & modernization
🚀 DevOps & Automation
- CI/CD pipeline design & implementation
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)
- Deployment automation & orchestration
- GitOps workflows (ArgoCD)
🔒 Security & Compliance
- Security hardening & SSDLC implementation
- Secrets management (SOPS, Vault)
- Compliance alignment & auditing
- Vulnerability assessment & remediation
📊 Monitoring & Observability
- Metrics collection (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics)
- Custom exporters & instrumentation
- Dashboard design & alerting
- Performance optimization
Available for Contracts & Consulting
Looking for DevOps expertise for your project? Let's discuss how I can help accelerate your infrastructure and automation goals.