Summary
Denis Salmanov is a cloud engineering leader with 9 years of experience who currently serves as Director of Cloud Engineering at Guesty, scaling platforms that handle millions of monthly visits and hundreds of millions of async processes. He built and matured a DevOps organization from the ground up, navigating hybrid and fully remote transitions while improving system reliability from 98% to 99.98% across thousands of production containers. A hands-on architect of cloud-native infrastructure, he specializes in Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, IaC, CI/CD and FinOps-driven cost governance, and has led PCI DSS and SOC2 compliance efforts. Denis has driven cloud migrations and standardization for acquisitions and is now spearheading company-wide AI adoption to automate development workflows, testing, and operational intelligence. He combines full P&L responsibility for cloud budgets with a pragmatic focus on legacy modernization and internal developer platforms to boost engineering productivity. Born in Ukraine and based in the Tel Aviv District, he pairs technical depth with proven cross-functional leadership in high-scale marketplace environments.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
System Engineer, System Engineer at John Bryce
English, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew