Summary
Yaroslav Kostiannikov is a DevOps Technical Lead with eight years in cloud and platform engineering and a longer history in Unix and systems administration. He has led Kubernetes and Docker initiatives, built CI/CD and multi-cloud production environments (EKS/AKS/GKE), and currently drives platform reliability and automation at OpenVPN after similar leadership at Lohika and DataRobot. Known for evangelizing "Kubernetes - the hard way," Spinnaker, and Infrastructure-as-Code, he pairs hands-on scripting and automation with a focus on operational simplicity and 24/7 production support. Based in Warsaw, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset shaped by roles ranging from enterprise monolith containerization to cloud-native platform design. An early adopter of education-focused team culture, he regularly mentors engineers to raise technical standards while delivering resilient, scalable systems.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer systems and networks, Specialist, Master's degree, Computer systems and networks, Specialist at Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University
Complete middle education, Computer Science, English Language, Complete middle education, Computer Science, English Language at BSH №1
English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish