Denis Zõkov
Cloud Solutions DevOps at MagenX
Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDenis Zõkov is a Cloud Solutions DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience designing, implementing, and optimizing fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure for e-commerce, with a strong focus on Magento deployments. He architects secure, automated CI/CD pipelines and AWS Terraform clusters that enable zero-downtime releases and achieved 99.9% uptime for production environments. Denis combines hands-on systems work—from LEMP/LAMP stacks, Docker and Kubernetes to observability and security—with tooling he publishes as ready-to-use open-source projects for Magento operations. His background in hardware debugging and production supervision informs a pragmatic approach to reliability, troubleshooting, and process automation. Notably, he has contributed to the widely used magenx Magento Nginx configurations and built automated debugging tools that reduce Level 1-2 resolution times. Based in Germany, he blends deep technical craft with project leadership to turn complex infrastructure needs into simple, reproducible platforms.
11 years of coding experience
Diploma of Education Manufacturing Technician, Diploma of Education Manufacturing Technician at TLMKMilitary unit - Army service, Military unit - Army service at Guard BattalionTallinn #11 Secondary school
English, Russian, Estonian
Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
bash10
script10
nginx10
magento10
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
magenx/Magento-nginx-config
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Default Nginx config for Magento 2
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:510 commits, 27 PRs, 779 pushes in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Denis primarily contributed to the configuration of Nginx for Magento 2, demonstrating expertise in web server setup and deployment. They updated installation scripts, configured extra files for different functionalities like assets, error pages, and maintenance mode. Furthermore, they created and modified scripts for installing ngx_pagespeed, showcasing skills in optimizing web server performance.
nginxmagento-2magento2configwebserver
magenx/Magento-2-aws-cluster-terraform
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Magento 2 AWS autoscaling cluster with Terraform and Packer or ImageBuilder. Adobe Commerce Cloud alternative. The best ecommerce infrastructure. Drive more sales online. Transparent billing. Developer-friendly. No hidden bottlenecks.
Contributions:14 releases, 1 review, 1543 commits in 1 year 1 month
adobeaws-cloudecommerceadobe-commerceaws-autoscaling
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