Summary
Valentin Zayash is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years in tech and over 7 years focused on SRE and platform engineering, currently driving Kubernetes and GitOps-ready delivery at PandaDoc from Warsaw. He designs and operates cloud-native stacks (AWS EKS) and maintains legacy containerized EC2 and bare-metal Kubernetes fleets, pairing Terraform/Terragrunt IaC with Helm and GitLab CI to speed releases. Valentin brings deep troubleshooting skills across distributed systems—he has managed 20+ clusters, authored a technical article on Kubernetes CPU throttling, and built automation for semantic versioning and deployment safety. Comfortable in fully distributed, flat organizations, he combines autonomous execution with strong cross-team collaboration and on-call reliability. His background spans observability (Grafana/ELK/Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics), shell scripting and occasional Python, reflecting a pragmatic, ops-focused approach to platform resilience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Technichian, Microelectronic, Technichian, Microelectronic at Minsk State Higher Radiotechnical College