Zheenbek Karaev

About

Senior DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure in regulated enterprise environments (Wells Fargo, The Home Depot). Core expertise: - AWS multi-region infrastructure (EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFront) - Kubernetes (EKS) 100+ containers across prod/stage/dev - CI/CD automation -Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD/GitOps - Infrastructure as Code — Terraform, Ansible - AI Infrastructure — AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, OpenAI API, GitHub Copilot - Monitoring & Observability- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch - DevSecOps- RBAC, IAM policies, secrets management What I've delivered: → Reduced release cycle time by 60% through GitOps pipeline automation → Cut incident response time by 40% via centralized observability stack → Improved infrastructure provisioning speed by 70% with Terraform/Ansible → Reduced deployment failures by 30% at The Home Depot

Experience

• DevOps Engineer · Wells Fargo11-01-2023

  - Reduced release cycle time by 60% by building end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD (GitOps) for 20+ production microservices. - Operated Kubernetes (EKS) clusters running 100+ containers across dev/stage/prod in a regulated financial environment — managed deployments, RBAC, and namespace policies. - Cut incident response time by 40% by implementing centralized observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK with automated alerting. - Improved infrastructure provisioning speed by 70% through Terraform and Ansible — eliminated manual configuration drift across AWS multi-region environments. - Provisioned and managed AWS SageMaker and Bedrock infrastructure for internal ML teams — configured IAM roles, VPC endpoints, and Terraform modules for secure AI service deployments. - Adopted GitHub Copilot to accelerate Terraform module development, pipeline scripting, and Python automation. - Implemented DevSecOps practices: IAM least-privilege, secrets management, network segmentation, and security scanning in CI/CD pipelines.

• DevOps Engineer · The Home Depot12-01-2019 – 04-01-2022

  - Managed EKS clusters with 80+ running pods for enterprise applications — handled Blue/Green deployments, scaling, and zero-downtime rollbacks. - Reduced deployment failures by 30% by building and optimizing Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines. - Reduced manual configuration by 70% by implementing Terraform across all environments. - Improved monitoring and observability using CloudWatch and Prometheus; contributed to incident postmortems. - Collaborated on containerization and deployment automation for internal applications using Docker and Kubernetes. - Supported CI/CD pipelines, enhancing build and deployment processes for efficiency. - Managed Linux servers and assisted with AWS infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations. - Participated in the migration of applications to container-based deployments, improving scalability.

• System Administrator (Infrastructure & Reliability Foundation) · Jusup Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University09-01-2015 – 10-01-2017

  • Managed Linux and Windows servers to ensure optimal performance and reliability. • Oversaw DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NAT, SSH, and NFS services for seamless network operations. • Conducted incident response and system troubleshooting to minimize downtime. • Supported virtualization and maintained a multi-user environment for enhanced collaboration.

Education

• ITCILOContract Management
• Jusup Balasagyn Kyrgyz National UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science
• Diplomatic Academy under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic named after Kazy Dikambaev. Kazy DikambaevMaster's degree, Project Management

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