Denis Kovalev
Lead DevOps SRE Engineer at Individual Contributor
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Kovalev is a Lead DevOps/SRE engineer with 10+ years in IT and five years focused on reliability, scalability, and platform enablement across startups and large tech firms. He designs production-grade infrastructure, drives SLA/SLO improvements, and automates CI/CD and IaC to reduce MTTR and increase deployment velocity. Denis has led cross-functional SRE, DBA, NOC and InfoSec teams, delivered data center migrations, and implemented processes that cut delivery time and payroll costs while reducing bus factor. Comfortable as a senior individual contributor in early-stage AdTech and Web3 projects, he pairs an engineering mindset with product-oriented tradeoffs between cost, reliability and developer experience. Based in Belgrade, he also combines front-end and web development roots with a history of building internal developer platforms and analytics systems that remove operational friction for product teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Information Technology, Engineer's degree, Information Technology at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
English, Russian
Github Skills (59)
spectrum10
cardano10
docker-container10
blockchain10
xdebug9
docker-image9
docker-compose9
finance9
ethereum9
php9
smart-contracts9
cpp8
docker8
embedded8
database8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
deniskv/Geekbrains-Python-Course
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Geekbrains Python Course
Contributions:16 PRs, 37 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
geekbrainspythonpython-course
deniskv/laradock
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
The (most popular) full PHP development environment for Docker.
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 5 months
dockerfiledocker-imagexdebugphpdocker
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