Ivan Lakieriev | Systems Engineer

About

DevOps with calm confidence.

I’m Ivan Lakieriev — a DevOps engineer from Kharkiv who builds delivery platforms that feel effortless for product teams. My work blends resilient infrastructure, clear observability, and cost-aware operations so releases stay predictable even when everything around us changes.

Kharkiv, Ukraine DevOps Engineer · SRE mindset
4+ years Running production-grade infrastructure for high-traffic products.
35% faster Lead pipeline rebuilds that cut build time while adding progressive delivery controls.
120+ services Unified logging, tracing, and SLO dashboards so teams share the same truth.

Delivery feels effortless

I craft pipelines with cache-aware runners, preview environments, and release policies so changes move quickly without sacrificing control.

  • Blueprint CI/CD templates across teams
  • Feature flag orchestration and staged rollouts
  • Rollback strategies rehearsed and automated

Platforms with empathy

DevEx matters. I build paved roads, docs, and guardrails so engineers create without fighting infrastructure.

  • Self-service environments with GitOps
  • Security and compliance built into workflows
  • Cost insights surfaced right where teams decide

Operational clarity

Reliability isn’t an afterthought — observability and incident response come baked in from day one.

  • SLO design with executive and squad buy-in
  • Actionable telemetry across infra and apps
  • Incident command playbooks that shorten MTTR

Trajectory

Craft built through real-world grit

Every step sharpened the way I design systems — from keeping factories running to orchestrating multi-cloud platforms.

  1. Sievierodonetsk → Kharkiv

    Learning to keep the plan alive

    Construction sites, retail shifts, climbing instruction, even sawmills — early jobs taught discipline, safety, and respect for systems that must not fail.

  2. Czech Republic

    Factory shifts to fund the dream

    Process thinking and repeatable quality came from long nights on the line while studying automation on the side.

  3. Side projects

    15 years of tinkering with live services

    Running game servers and communities demanded Linux admin work, backups, migrations, and on-call habits long before it was my job.

  4. IT break-in

    From hobby admin to systems engineer

    Joined my dream company and moved into production delivery: CI/CD foundations, infrastructure-as-code, and shared deployment patterns.

  5. Since 2022

    Reliability under uncertainty

    Staying in Ukraine during the war reinforced my focus on resilient rollouts, observability, and calm incident response.

  6. Today

    DevOps for high-traffic products

    I lead cloud infrastructure, delivery, and monitoring for teams that need both speed and stability.

Cloud & IaC

  • Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes
  • AWS, GCP, Azure, hybrid footprints
  • Landing zones, policy-as-code, GitOps

Automation & Delivery

  • GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
  • Reusable pipelines, runners, caching layers
  • Blue/green, canary, feature flag rollouts

Observability & Ops

  • Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, tracing
  • SLO/SLI governance and alert tuning
  • Incident command and post-incident practice

I love collaborating with teams that want both velocity and trust. If that’s you, let’s design delivery that feels unmistakably premium.

Let’s talk