Maxim Kuznetsov

Senior DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
20+ years of production experience.

If your infrastructure is barely holding together, I'm the person who knows how to bring it back to life.

Who am I

I'm not just a system administrator or a DevOps engineer. I'm an engineer who keeps production systems alive when everything around them starts falling apart.

I've been working with Linux since 2002. I've rebuilt production environments from the ashes, automated operational chaos across dozens of servers, and introduced CI/CD practices before they became mainstream.

I don't just write Ansible playbooks. I think about reliability, security, scalability, failure scenarios and recovery.

People call me when obvious solutions stop working.

Engineering philosophy

No magic. Just engineering.

  • If something needs to be repeated — automate it.
  • If something can fail — anticipate it.
  • If something is undocumented — document it.
  • If something is dangerous — prepare rollback first.

I don't fear legacy systems. I've been around long enough to become part of them.

Selected experience

Payment Processing Infrastructure

Production database infrastructure for fintech systems. Experience with critical workloads, transactions, high availability and PCI DSS requirements.

Enterprise CI/CD Recovery

Inherited a broken deployment process where releases were blocked for months. Redesigned build and deployment workflows, restored predictable delivery and automation.

Legacy Infrastructure Modernization

Migrated and automated systems built over years: Linux servers, databases, networks, virtualization and deployment pipelines.

Technical Skills

Linux
Kubernetes
Harbor
Docker
Docker Compose
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Ansible
Bash
systemd
Nginx
HAProxy
Grafana
Prometheus
Zabbix
AWS
Hetzner
DigitalOcean
KVM
LXC
Proxmox
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
DNS / VPN / Firewall
Thin humor
Brutal shell scripting

Why me?

  • 20+ years of hands-on production experience
  • Fintech background (PCI DSS, transactions, databases)
  • Large-scale migrations with minimal downtime
  • Cloud and infrastructure automation
  • Calm communication during incidents

"I don't pretend to be senior. I have spent 20+ years solving real production problems."

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