Dmitri Lerko
Head Of Engineering at Octane
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitri Lerko is a cloud-native engineering leader based in London with nine years of professional experience and over a decade of hands-on expertise in infrastructure, web performance and data engineering. As Head of Engineering at loveholidays he runs Scaling teams across Cloud Infrastructure, Data Engineering and Web Infrastructure, having previously led platform and DevOps transformations that migrated a 24/7 eCommerce business to GCP and established serverless CI/CD and GitOps. He combines tactical engineering—writing Kubernetes controllers and automations for Workload Identity and policy-as-code guardrails—with strategic FinOps and observability programs that delivered sustained multi-year cost reductions and improved SRE posture. An acknowledged Google Cloud Platform Developer Expert and advisor to cloud security startups, he brings practical product-security sensibilities to platform design. Dmitri is notable for turning complex multi-step cloud operations into developer-friendly, auditable workflows and for driving measurable business outcomes (faster builds, lower latency, reduced public exposure) through pragmatic engineering.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Applications, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Applications at Dublin City UniversitySoftware Development, Software Development at Dundalk Institute of Technology
Github Skills (100)
mesh10
go-client10
signing10
reliability10
sre10
compilation10
redis10
logging10
monitoring9
redis-client9
cloud-sql9
golang9
rust9
image-processing9
prometheus-exporter9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dmitri-lerko/gke-instance-auto-labeler
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Simple Cloud Function that sets desired GCE Instance and Disk labels based on name match.
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 10 months
matchgcpcost-optimizationfinopsgce-instance
dmitri-lerko/pkg
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Toolkit common packages
Contributions:3 releases, 6 pushes, 3 tags in 9 months
fsmtoolkit
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