Summary
Hojat Gazestani is a cloud and DevOps engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating Kubernetes, AWS, and OpenStack environments. He freelances as a Kubernetes/AWS specialist, having automated EKS provisioning with Terraform, implemented GitOps and CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD and Jenkins, and reduced deployment and provisioning times by up to 60%. His background spans networking and systems—rooted in early Linux exploration and years of Cisco-focused network design—which informs robust, security-conscious infrastructure and automation (Python, Ansible). Notable projects include transforming single-node Redis and RabbitMQ setups into highly available clusters and bootstrapping Helm-based applications to cut launch time by 80%. He pairs SRE-style monitoring and observability (Zabbix, Prometheus, Graylog, Grafana) with pragmatic cost and incident reductions, and maintains code and docs on GitHub. Outside work he’s an avid mountaineer and traveler, bringing curiosity and persistence to complex operational challenges.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Applied Science and Technology (UAST)
Associate's degree, Computer Software Technology/Technician, Associate's degree, Computer Software Technology/Technician at Chamran College
German, Persian, English