Nikolai Malinin
DevOps Engineer at ScyllaDB
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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SeniorNikolai Malinin is a DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure for startups and enterprise teams, now based in Warsaw and currently at ScyllaDB. He has a proven track record of cost- and complexity-reduction—most notably cutting AWS costs by 60% while migrating services from ECS to Kubernetes and introducing Vault-backed secrets. Comfortable across cloud-native tooling, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Istio and CI/CD, he blends software engineering roots with systems-level expertise from projects ranging from RoR e-commerce platforms to healthcare SRE. Nikolai’s interests in Linux internals, MLOps and automation drive a pragmatic approach: pick the right mix of open-source and enterprise tools to solve real operational pain. He shines at shipping high-impact infrastructure under tight deadlines, having rescued and optimized delivery-focused projects early in their release cycles. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on engineer who turns complex architectures into maintainable, cost-efficient platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Russian, English, Polish
Github Skills (37)
kuma9
mesh9
connectivity9
vms8
networking8
envoyproxy8
zone7
sandbox7
golang7
contour7
kong7
versioning7
microservices6
lru6
rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Otus-DevOps-2019-11/Neyaz_infra
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Neyaz Infra repository
Contributions:20 PRs, 30 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
infra
Neyaz/manual_kernel_update
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Kernel update. Create custom box for Vagrant Clound. Packer.
Contributions:19 PRs, 17 pushes, 20 branches in 2 months
kernelvagrantboxpackerupdate
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