Vlado Djerek is a Lead DevOps Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building reliable CI/CD, testing, and cloud infrastructure across enterprise and startup environments. Based in Mostar, he has progressed from system administration and QA to leading DevOps teams at companies including Akvelon, UiPath, Adjust, and F5. His open-source contributions to the high-profile Apache Beam project focused on CI/CD reliability, flaky test detection, and automation for playground/cloud builds, showing a practical emphasis on observability and test robustness. Known for turning ad-hoc tooling into repeatable pipelines, he blends practical operations experience with leadership in delivering production-ready automation.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information Techonolgy, Information Techonolgy at University Džemal Bijedić Mostar
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:121 reviews, 106 PRs, 243 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Vlado primarily contributed to the repository's infrastructure and testing, focusing on improving the CI/CD pipelines and automated testing procedures. They made changes related to cloud build configurations for the playground environment. The user also worked on integrating a GitHub workflow data prefetcher script and a flaky test detection tool to improve monitoring capabilities. These changes suggest a focus on improving the reliability, monitoring, and automation of the Apache Beam project.
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming
Contributions:157 PRs, 1276 pushes, 114 branches in 1 year 10 months
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Vlado Djerek - Lead DevOps Engineer at Akvelon, Inc.