Summary
Yurii A is an IT Director and seasoned DevOps engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and operating Linux-based infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. He specializes in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Swarm, Rancher, Fargate/ECS), CI/CD automation (GitLab CI, Jenkins, custom scripts), and infrastructure as code with Ansible and Terraform, and has worked extensively with AWS, Azure and multiple VPS providers. Yurii has deep operational familiarity with web and data stacks — nginx/traefik, MySQL/Postgres/MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, ELK/TICK and observability tooling — and strong experience securing and automating identity and access via OpenLDAP/FreeIPA and AWS IAM. Progressing from system administrator roles to DevOps and now IT leadership at Smartico.ai, he blends pragmatic scripting in Bash/Python with architectural decision-making to scale production systems. Based in Sofia, he brings a practical, cross-cloud mindset and a track record of shipping resilient, repeatable infrastructure for product-focused teams.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information radio technologies and technical information security, Master's degree Information radio technologies and technical information security at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics