Summary
Mikhail Penkin is a Senior Systems Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud migrations, and platform reliability, currently based in Belgrade and working at EPAM Systems. He designs and automates CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Chef, Terraform), and monitoring/DR solutions across AWS services including EKS/ECS, Lambda, RDS and OpenSearch. Mikhail combines L3 application support for data analytics platforms—particularly Tibco Spotfire—with frequent architectural upgrades, cross-service integrations, and migration projects. He is comfortable writing tooling and configuration code, performing complex OS and dependency migrations, and building visibility dashboards that keep large systems observable and resilient. Though most of his work lives in private repos, his track record shows a pragmatic balance of SRE discipline and development velocity. Colleagues rely on him for technically rigorous planning, on-call escalation, and interviewing new engineering talent.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer