Pavel Ponomaryov
DevOps Engineering Manager at Topia
Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Ponomaryov is a DevOps Engineering Manager based in Estonia with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD and SRE practices. He combines hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform and GitOps tools like ArgoCD with a history of unifying Jenkins pipelines and delivering migrations from colo to cloud. At Topia he manages a global DevOps team while still leading R&D, POCs and FinOps initiatives, and mentors engineers on self-service platforms and documentation. A former Senior QA/SDET, he brings deep test automation and observability experience (Datadog, Rollbar, OpsGenie) and can read and write Python, Java and Kotlin—helping bridge the gap between development, testing and operations. Notably, he designs reusable Terraform modules and implemented a company-wide release strategy, blending engineering leadership with persistent hands-on delivery.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Telecommunications, Bachelor, Telecommunications at Tallinn Technical UniversitySecondary education, Secondary education at Sillamae Secondary Schoolprofessional, pop-jazz singing, professional, pop-jazz singing at Georg Ots` Music College
Russian, Estonian, English
Github Skills (114)
selenium-server10
keda10
testng10
testing10
test-framework10
junit10
docker-container10
integration-testing10
webdriver10
docker-compose10
selenium-webdriver10
selenium-grid10
containerization10
java10
kotlin10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pavelpp/selenide
Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
Concise UI Tests with Java!
Contributions:17 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 2 months
javaui-tests
pavelpp/isikukood
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 9 days
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