Aleksandar Stojanov
Geographic Information Systems Coordinator
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandar Stojanov is a DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building and securing cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean and on-prem platforms. He has led DevOps and security practices at Polar Cape, automating deployments with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes/ECS and CI/CD pipelines while also owning monitoring, disaster recovery and incident processes. Currently at Nion, Aleksandar continues to blend hands-on systems work with security-focused engineering, demonstrated by contributions to the well-known Checkov project where he implemented GCP-specific security checks and modernized cloud-function and GKE validations. His background includes full-stack development and long-term Linux systems administration for national library digitization projects, giving him a rare mix of cultural-sector software experience and enterprise cloud expertise. Comfortable writing automation in Bash, Python and Ruby, he favors pragmatic, auditable solutions that reduce operational risk. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who brings compliance-minded thinking to everyday DevOps challenges.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, General Management, MBA, General Management at University American College SkopjeGraduated, Electronic and telecommunications, Graduated, Electronic and telecommunications at Ss.. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
English, Macedonian
Github Skills (16)
gcp10
compliance10
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
kubernetes10
cloud-security10
devops10
terraform10
kubernetes-pods10
postgresql9
automations8
automation8
static-analysis7
microsoft-azure3
azure3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aleksandar primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining security checks within the Checkov project, specifically relating to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure. They implemented new checks related to PostgreSQL database configurations, addressing compliance with security best practices. Furthermore, the user updated existing checks to align with the latest Google Cloud Functions 2nd generation resources and fixed deprecated features related to GKE binary authorization. These contributions indicate a focus on ensuring cloud resource security and compliance.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
losisin/helm-values-schema-json
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Helm plugin for generating values.schema.json from multiple values files
Contributions:3 releases, 25 reviews, 157 PRs in 1 year 5 months
helmhelm-charthelm-chartshelm-pluginhelm-plugins
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