Summary
Rufina Talalaeva is a DevOps engineer with six years of hands-on experience building and optimizing cloud-native infrastructure from internships to production roles. Based in Kazan, she has modernized CI/CD and release processes using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD and Helm, and reduced AWS infrastructure costs through Kubernetes tuning. Her work spans container security (Trivy, Snyk), automated Docker base-image management, and Terragrunt-driven infrastructure for ECS, Route53, Cognito and Aurora. Rufina has delivered monitoring and deployment tooling for HydroSphere projects and split complex Helm charts into maintainable components to streamline delivery. She also has a background in NLP research, having designed graph-based topic detection algorithms, which gives her an analytical edge in system observability and data-driven operations. Continuously learning in DevOps, she combines practical automation skills with a security-first mindset to drive efficient, auditable deployments.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Innopolis University
Russian, Tatar, English, Turkish