Gennady Potapov
Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Tech Lead) at Glia
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolGennady Potapov is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer and tech lead based in Tallinn with eight years focused on building secure, highly available cloud infrastructure and developer platforms. He has led infrastructure teams at GrabCAD—standardizing AWS stacks, delivering Terraform/Helm-based IaC, automated self-service provisioning, and Kubernetes platforms that supported millions of users—and now directs infrastructure strategy and delivery at Glia. Known for bridging hands-on engineering with roadmap-level coordination, he reduces cost and complexity while enforcing security and availability standards across multiple products. His background spans enterprise IT and business partnering at Boehringer Ingelheim, giving him rare experience translating organizational needs into operational infrastructure. Colleagues would find him equally comfortable architecting CI/CD and cluster automation as mentoring teams to adopt repeatable, auditable practices.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Informational Management, Specialist, Informational Management at State University of Management (SUM)
Russian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (143)
kubernetes10
go10
ecr10
docker10
catalog9
charts9
proxies9
golang9
controller9
terraform9
security9
bash9
api-management9
scheduling9
consul9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gp42/aws_cloudwatch
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
Chef cookbook providing AWS Cloudwatch Agent resource
Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 6 months
cookbookagentcloudwatchaws-cloudwatchaws
gp42/aws-auth-operator
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Kubernetes operator to manage aws-auth ConfigMap for AWS EKS
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
eksoperatork8skubernetesaws-eks
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