Dmitriy Shmatov Email & Phone Number

Drive organizational success through the development and execution of comprehensive cloud strategies aligned with business goals. My expertise lies in designing scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud architectures, optimizing existing environments, and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for seamless automation. I specialize in integrating diverse cloud services and ensuring robust security and compliance measures. With a keen focus on FinOps, I implement strategies to optimize cloud costs, align spending with objectives, and enhance vendor relationships. Committed to knowledge sharing, I create and maintain documentation while providing training to empower teams in embracing cloud best practices. Through effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, I ensure the successful implementation and operation of cutting-edge cloud solutions.

Key Focus Areas:Led the management of a team of 5 Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) while focusing on developing and migrating existing event-driven microservices to a multi-account and cloud-agnostic infrastructure setup.Implemented and cultivated SRE best practices within the organization, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.Comprehensively covered all aspects of this initiative with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including the configuration of microservices.

AWS Landing Zone Migration:Led and orchestrated the migration of the existing AWS infrastructure to the AWS Landing Zone, ensuring a smooth and organized transition.Implemented best practices in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to streamline infrastructure provisioning and management.Machine Learning and Data Science Workloads Expertise:Established, configured, and maintained Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science workloads within Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), ensuring optimal performance and scalability.Vault Integration and Developer Environments:Successfully integrated Vault into Kubernetes, enhancing security and access control for sensitive data.Designed and managed developer sandboxes to facilitate efficient and isolated development environments.On-Call Support:Actively participated in the on-call rotation, ensuring continuous operational stability and prompt incident resolution.

Microservices Migration and Cloud Expertise:Spearheaded the migration of the existing monolithic architecture to event-driven microservices.Developed a robust platform for deploying microservices on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and subsequently created a cloud-agnostic solution, including bare-metal setups.Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Deployment Mastery:Implemented best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setup, ensuring efficient infrastructure provisioning and code delivery to production environments.Comprehensive Cloud Optimization:Drove all-encompassing cloud success, focusing on cost-efficiency by utilizing 100% preemptible nodes with daily restarts.Developed custom templating tools for deploying workloads to Kubernetes and custom operators for managing microservices.Actively contributed to open-source projects to meet specific project requirements.Secure and Efficient Setup:Orchestrated the migration of all workloads to a service mesh to establish mutual TLS (mTLS) secure configurations.Covered a wide range of responsibilities, including monitoring, logging, CI/CD (Canary releases), and security.On-Call Support:Actively participated in the on-call rotation, ensuring continuous operational stability and rapid incident resolution.

Odessa, Ukraine

Microservices and Cloud Migration:Played an integral role in the division and migration of the existing monolithic architecture into a microservices-based system.Established a scalable and efficient microservices platform on AWS using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Deployment Excellence:Implemented industry best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setup, streamlining infrastructure provisioning and code deployment processes.Demonstrated a track record of delivering code to production environments, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.Focus on High Availability (HA), Monitoring, and Logging:Led initiatives to ensure high availability (HA) through robust monitoring and logging solutions.Expertly architected and maintained a comprehensive CI/CD setup, including the implementation of Canary releases using Istio.

Migration and Containerization Expertise:Played a pivotal role in orchestrating the migration of existing services to containerized environments, followed by the seamless transition to Kubernetes.Led efforts in designing and implementing a custom high-availability (HA) setup within Kubernetes for logging (EFK stack) and monitoring (Prometheus) systems, handling thousands of VPN services.Devoted significant efforts to architecting solutions capable of managing 5-10 Terabytes of daily traffic.Innovation and Problem Solving:Overcame the challenge of efficiently handling massive daily traffic volumes, which led to the development of the "Throttle" filter plugin in FluentBit, an innovation to enhance system performance.On-Call Support:Actively participated in the on-call rotation, ensuring uninterrupted operational stability and rapid incident response.

Kyiv, Ukraine

Google Cloud Expertise:Pioneered the development of a comprehensive eCommerce solution on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) from inception, including utilizing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), with a pioneering role in 2015.Implemented industry-leading Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices to establish a seamless "click-to-deploy" infrastructure provisioning process.Holistic Platform Ownership:Oversaw end-to-end platform development, including architecting and crafting the infrastructure setup, logging, monitoring, security, high availability (HA), custom CI/CD pipelines, and the successful migration of existing systems to the cloud.This revised description provides a more concise and structured overview of your role in developing an eCommerce platform on Google Cloud, emphasizing your expertise and leadership in pioneering GCP solutions.

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Team Management and Leadership:Led a high-performing team of 5 DevOps engineers.Orchestrated the development and migration of high-load eCommerce projects to a cutting-edge containerized environment.Pioneered the adoption of Docker in 2013, revolutionizing deployment processes.Technical Excellence:Spearheaded continuous improvements across databases, services, and web servers to enhance system performance.Initiated and managed a hybrid setup encompassing AWS and bare-metal infrastructure for disaster recovery, ensuring business continuity.Conducted comprehensive security audits to identify and mitigate threats within projects.CI/CD Pipeline Development:Designed and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines, streamlining development workflows and enabling faster feature delivery.On-Call Support:Actively participated in the on-call rotation, ensuring prompt incident resolution and system availability.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science