Dejan Pejčev
Open Source Engineer & Evangelist G-Research Open Source Team at Bakson Ltd
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolDejan Pejčev is an Open Source Engineer and Evangelist with a decade of experience building cloud-native, backend-first systems, currently driving open-source initiatives at G-Research. He specializes in Golang and Kubernetes Operator patterns, contributing to notable projects like kubeshop/testkube (Kubernetes-native testing orchestration) and maintaining the multi-cluster batch scheduler Armada. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he designs system architectures, automates infrastructure, and leads demos and community engagement to accelerate adoption. His background spans enterprise-grade automation, event-driven systems (Pulsar, Kafka, Temporal) and cloud cost/enablement work, paired with hands-on DevOps ownership of CI/CD and release pipelines. Based in Belgrade, he combines lateral thinking with practical engineering—often surfacing deployment and observability improvements that yield measurable operational gains.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Electrial Engineering and Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree Electrial Engineering and Computer Science at University of Belgrade
English, Serbian, Bulgarian
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
docker10
mstest10
testing10
bash10
teste10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
infrastructure10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
devops10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
armadaproject/armada
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A multi-cluster batch queuing system for high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 99 reviews, 40 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dejan primarily contributed to the quickstart documentation for the Armada project. Their work involved setting up a local Armada cluster, including the deployment of various Helm charts such as Redis, NATS, Apache Pulsar, and Prometheus. They also configured Grafana dashboards for monitoring. The user's changes included the creation of setup and destroy scripts, indicating a focus on automating the deployment and teardown of the Armada environment.
slurmbatchmulti-clusterqueuing-systemworkloads
kubeshop/testkube
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
☸️ Kubernetes-native testing framework for test execution and orchestration
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 109 reviews, 16 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dejan primarily contributed to the backend functionalities of the Testkube framework by introducing test triggers, refactoring test execution modules, and implementing cloud result repository integration. They also focused on improving the test trigger's CRUD API and adding features such as trigger delays and bulk update capabilities. Furthermore, the user demonstrated expertise in DevOps practices by integrating and maintaining the project's build and release pipelines.
test-executiontesting-frameworkorchestrationdevopstesting
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