Nikolay K
DevSecOps at Santiment
Bulgaria
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNikolay K is a seasoned DevSecOps engineer with 18 years of experience designing, operating and securing large-scale Unix-based infrastructure across AWS, Hetzner and on-premise environments. He has led teams managing networks and fleets of 2,500–4,000+ hosts, combining deep OS and firewall expertise (Checkpoint, iptables, pf, nftables, etc.) with automation using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes and Docker. At Santiment and prior roles he built cloud-agnostic clusters and embedded security-first DevOps practices into CI/CD and runtime operations. Comfortable across Linux and BSD, he pairs low-level systems know-how with pragmatic orchestration skills, often solving problems where networking, security and scalability intersect. Based in Bulgaria with a masters in automation and control systems, he brings a rare blend of hands-on packet-to-cloud experience and long-term operational ownership.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Automation and information control systems, Master, Automation and information control systems at Minno-geoložki universitet 'Sv. Ivan Rilski'
English, Bulgarian, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (59)
monitoring10
dashboard10
mysql10
data-visualization10
visualization9
analytics9
visualize9
grafana9
composable9
go9
prometheus9
influxdb9
elasticsearch9
charts8
business-intelligence8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
santiment/docker-bitcoin-abc
May 2021 - Aug 2023
A Bitcoin ABC docker image.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
docker-imagebitcoinddockerabcbitcoin
nkalev/endava-devops-challenge
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 day
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