Summary
Iurii Shutkin is a Senior System Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building secure, observable, and scalable cloud-native platforms across fintech, telecom, and streaming domains. He champions DevSecOps and SRE practices—codifying infrastructure as code, running Vault at scale, and creating runbooks and postmortems to reduce toil and improve reliability. Iurii has deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise (EKS, IRSA, Karpenter), automates multi-account setups via Terraform/Ansible, and integrates services like Databricks, OpenSearch, and Grafana as platform offerings. He is an advocate for knowledge sharing and reducing bus factor, demonstrated by workshops and open-source labs on Kubernetes secrets management that evolved into a learning-focused k8s-lab repository. Comfortable scripting and tooling in Python and GitHub workflows, he blends platform engineering with practical operations experience to deliver auditable, repeatable solutions. Based in the Netherlands, he often focuses on making secrets, observability, and lifecycle policies both secure and easy for teams to consume.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Software technician Software for Computers and Computer-Aided Systems, Software technician Software for Computers and Computer-Aided Systems at Technical school of Berezniki
English, Russian, Dutch