Sergey Melnik
Senior Platform Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSergey Melnik is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Berlin with over 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and internal developer platforms. He has led migrations from VMs to Kubernetes, introduced Terraform/Helm and platform concepts, and cut operational latency and costs through automation and tailored scaling profiles. Comfortable as an IC, manager, and project lead, Sergey blends deep technical craft—tooling in Go and C# and operator work like MongoDB—with a pragmatic focus on developer experience and incident prevention. His career spans startups to enterprise, from running basement racks to orchestrating multi-cloud migrations, and he’s known for turning messy production environments into automated, observable platforms. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring and for translating business needs into long-term infrastructure vision.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Cotham, BristolMoscow State School #57
English, Russian
Github Skills (168)
charts10
history10
helm10
kubernetes10
rust9
shell9
fluxcd9
terraform9
bash9
k8s9
capistrano9
kops9
flux9
musl9
go9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zonorti/hetzner-docker
Dec 2014 - Apr 2018
Bootstrap docker-enabled servers on Hetzner
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
bootstrapdocker
zonorti/charts
Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
k8skubernetes
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