Ivan Polchenko is a results-driven DevOps Specialist with a decade of hands-on experience delivering scalable, cloud-native infrastructure for startups and enterprise teams across Canada. As Co-Founder/CEO of Zontik Communications, he took an IoT hardware concept from idea to prototype, engineering a complete system with SMT/SOC components and an AWS-backed backend. In recent roles, he served as Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Clearbit, implementing autoscaling with Karpenter and Keda and modernizing observability with Grafana Loki, Mimir, and Prometheus to replace legacy monitoring. His technical toolkit spans Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, CI/CD with Tekton/ArgoCD, OpenShift migrations, ELK stack, and cross-platform administration of Windows, Linux, and macOS. Based in Langford, BC, he holds AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification and Kubernetes credentials, reflecting an automation-first approach to delivering reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Linux Academy
High School Upgrading, High School Upgrading at Douglas College
Burnaby South Secondary
Amazon Certified Solution Architect Associate, Amazon Certified DevOps Engineer, Amazon Certified Solution Architect Associate, Amazon Certified DevOps Engineer at A Cloud Guru
Docker Mastery with Kubernetes, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Docker Mastery with Kubernetes, Certified Kubernetes Administrator at Udemy
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Ivan Polchenko - DevOps Specialist at Zontik Communications