I’m Dmitry Plekhanov, a Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer / SRE with over 20 years of experience in Linux systems administration, cloud infrastructure, and automation. I specialize in building high-availability, high-traffic web platforms (1M+ daily users) and I bring hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and performance tuning. Based in Milan, Italy, I’ve helped migrate legacy infrastructures to cloud-native solutions, built scalable, secure environments, and optimized pipelines for reliability and speed. I’m fluent in English and Russian, with Italian at a beginner/intermediate level, and I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle challenging engineering problems.

Dmitry Plekhanov

I’m Dmitry Plekhanov, a Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer / SRE with over 20 years of experience in Linux systems administration, cloud infrastructure, and automation. I specialize in building high-availability, high-traffic web platforms (1M+ daily users) and I bring hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and performance tuning. Based in Milan, Italy, I’ve helped migrate legacy infrastructures to cloud-native solutions, built scalable, secure environments, and optimized pipelines for reliability and speed. I’m fluent in English and Russian, with Italian at a beginner/intermediate level, and I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle challenging engineering problems.

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I’m Dmitry Plekhanov, a Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer / SRE with over 20 years of experience in Linux systems administration, cloud infrastructure, and automation. I specialize in building high-availability, high-traffic web platforms (1M+ daily users) and I bring hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and performance tuning.

Based in Milan, Italy, I’ve helped migrate legacy infrastructures to cloud-native solutions, built scalable, secure environments, and optimized pipelines for reliability and speed. I’m fluent in English and Russian, with Italian at a beginner/intermediate level, and I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle challenging engineering problems.

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Russian
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Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer at Kaleyra (Tata Communications Group)
September 1, 2024 - November 6, 2025
Designed and automated cloud-native infrastructure for real-time WebRTC video streaming and AI workloads. Managed Kubernetes (EKS) and ECS autoscaling with CloudFormation and Ansible. Operated hybrid EC2 clusters including GPU instances for ML pipelines. Built GitLab CI/CD workflows with Docker and orchestration platforms.
DevOps Engineer at 1contents.com
September 1, 2024 - September 1, 2024
Supported and optimized news/media platforms with 1M daily users (WordPress, Laravel, ML apps). Built new IaC infra with Terraform, Ansible, Docker; deployed fully automated CI/CD pipelines. Optimized infra with Cloudflare CDN, Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, improving stability & response times. Containerized applications, managed AWS ECR, tested AWS Fargate & Kubernetes hosting.
DevOps Engineer at dssupport.com
February 1, 2021 - February 1, 2021
Administered Linux web & mobile app servers, provided 24/7 support. Migrated services to new infra, automated deployments with Ansible/Terraform. Deployed monitoring & security solutions, optimized performance.
DevOps Engineer at Incrdbl Mobile Entertainment LLC
December 31, 2018 - December 31, 2018
Built infrastructure for mobile platforms with Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, ELK, Mongo, HAProxy. Migrated from VMs (OpenVZ, Xen) to containers, introduced CI/CD automation.
Linux System Administrator at DataNaut
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2010
Office infrastructure, VoIP, VPN, Linux migration.
SysAdmin at Tele2
January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2007
Windows/Linux servers, MSSQL, AD, multi-office networking.
Network Engineer at PSS ISP
January 1, 2003 - January 1, 2003
WiFi/Ethernet networks, Linux routing.
DevOps Engineer at 1contents.com
September 30, 2024 - September 30, 2024
Supported and optimized news/media platforms with 1M daily users (WordPress, Laravel, ML apps). Built new IaC infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker; deployed fully automated CI/CD pipelines. Optimized infrastructure with Cloudflare CDN, Nginx, Varnish, and HAProxy, improving stability and response times. Containerized applications, managed AWS ECR, and tested AWS Fargate and Kubernetes hosting.
DevOps Engineer (Remote) at dssupport.com
February 28, 2021 - February 28, 2021
Administered Linux web and mobile app servers with 24/7 support. Migrated services to new infrastructure and automated deployments with Ansible and Terraform. Deployed monitoring and security solutions, and optimized performance.
Linux System Administrator at DataNaut
December 31, 2010 - December 31, 2010
Office infrastructure administration, VoIP, VPN, and Linux migrations.
SysAdmin at Tele2
December 31, 2007 - December 31, 2007
Windows/Linux servers, MSSQL, AD, multi-office networking.
Network Engineer at PSS ISP
December 31, 2003 - December 31, 2003
WiFi/Ethernet networks, Linux routing.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University
January 1, 2001 - January 1, 2006
Bachelor's degree at Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University
January 1, 2001 - December 31, 2006

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Professional Services, Other