Summary
Azer Abdullaev is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and automation for companies like Native Instruments, Wayfair and Yandex. He blends deep Linux and systems administration expertise with practical IaC, container orchestration and CI/CD skills—comfortable with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker/Podman and a range of CI tools from Jenkins to GitLab CI. Azer has strong observability and logging experience (Nagios, ELK) and is actively expanding into Prometheus/Grafana and service mesh technologies like Istio. He favors pragmatic solutions—often preferring Makefiles for reproducible workflows—and has a track record running queue systems, DBMS and large-scale web/load-balancer stacks. Colleagues know him as a "Bash Ninja" who turns messy operational challenges into reliable, automatable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Moscow State University of Transport (MIIT)
English, German, Russian, Ukrainian