Summary
Konstantin Tchernov is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at GitLab with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He has moved between startups and critical infrastructure roles—running SRE for Auckland’s electricity distribution and modernising a SaaS from pet VMs to a Dockerised, highly scalable platform—bringing practical experience across AWS, Outposts, Docker, and serverless patterns. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, he combines hands-on development (mobile, C++, backend) with technical leadership at companies like Xero, Pushpay and Vector. Konstantin excels at designing cost- and performance-optimised architectures and improving SLOs, and he’s comfortable translating corporate requirements into operationally robust solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who thrives on lifting legacy systems into cloud-first, observable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Auckland
Mt Roskill Grammar School
English