Hey there! I’m Aleksei, a Senior Cloud / Platform Security Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, securing, and operating cloud-native platforms and distributed systems in enterprise environments. I build reliable, scalable, and audit-ready platform foundations with a strong focus on Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, IAM, and DevSecOps, with additional hands-on exposure to AWS and Azure.

My work sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud security, and software engineering. I design and operate secure delivery foundations across Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps; implement IAM and policy controls; strengthen secrets, workload, and network security; and improve operational resilience through observability, incident readiness, and security-by-default standards.

I focus on making platforms safe to operate at scale, predictable under change, and easy for engineering teams to use without compromising security, reliability, or delivery speed. I value clean architecture, strong engineering culture, and pragmatic enablement practices that reduce key-person risk and improve long-term maintainability.

I value clean architecture, strong engineering culture, and pragmatic enablement practices - the kind that reduce key-person risk and keep systems maintainable over time.

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• 🧩 Platform & Cloud Engineering Build and operate cloud-native platforms with Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps, focusing on secure-by-default foundations, standardization, and smooth environment promotion.

• 🔐 Security-First Delivery Embed security into the delivery lifecycle: secrets management, policy enforcement, vulnerability workflows, and supply-chain hygiene (scanning, SBOM-minded practices, and repeatable controls).

• 📈 Reliability & Observability Design operational visibility with Prometheus/Grafana/ELK, define practical SLI/SLO expectations, and improve incident response with actionable alerting and clear runbooks.

• ⚙️ Automation & Enablement Create reusable building blocks (IaC modules, CI templates, deployment patterns) that reduce drift, lower change risk, and help teams ship consistently.

• 🛠️ Software Engineering Background Strong foundation in Python, Go, and JavaScript/TypeScript with practical experience building services, automations, and developer-facing tooling.

• ☁️ Cloud Breadth Deep GCP experience with hands-on work across multi-region and multi-cloud environments; strong comfort with IAM, networking patterns, secure service exposure, and cost-aware design.

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Category	Skills
💻 Programming Languages
🌐 Web Development
🐳 DevOps Engineering
☁️ Cloud Services and Infrastructure
🗄️ Databases and Data Storage
🧠 AI & Machine Learning