Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and operating infrastructure across Web3, DeFi, Banking, ML/AI, and Enterprise environments. I've worked at Lido (Ethereum liquid staking), Mobilize Financial Services, and across cybersecurity and telecom sectors.
From bare-metal Kubernetes clusters to multi-cloud deployments, I design infrastructure that's resilient, scalable, and secure. I specialize in automating everything — from provisioning and configuration management to CI/CD pipelines and incident response. I've built and maintained high-availability systems handling real financial value, where downtime isn't an option.
My work spans the full infrastructure lifecycle: architecture design, IaC, observability, capacity planning, and on-call ownership. I've scaled systems for 100+ member engineering teams, dockerized 100+ applications, managed hundreds of GCP resources via Terraform, and operated 300+ Linux servers in production. I thrive in environments that move fast and demand operational excellence.
- Orchestration: Kubernetes (bare-metal & managed) · Docker · Helm · Proxmox
- IaC & Config: Terraform · Ansible · CloudFormation
- Cloud: GCP · AWS · Hetzner
- CI/CD: GitLab CI · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · Azure DevOps
- Monitoring: Prometheus · Grafana · Alertmanager · EFK · Zabbix · CloudWatch
- Blockchain: Ethereum (Geth, Erigon, Lighthouse) · Lido protocol · TON ecosystem
- Security: Vault · WAF · OpenVPN · network hardening · key management
- Databases: PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis
- Messaging: Kafka · RabbitMQ · Minio
- Languages: Python · Bash · Go
- Lido — Ethereum liquid staking protocol.
- Mobilize Financial Services — Banking infrastructure. Dockerized 100+ apps, built CI/CD from scratch, full observability stack across all environments
- CopyMonkey — AI/ML platform. AWS from scratch, GPU workload autoscaling, ML model serving on EC2, CloudWatch observability
- Reksoft International — Kubernetes from 0 to production, supported 100-member dev-engineering team
- LUCY Security — 300+ Linux servers, cybersecurity infrastructure, WAF, OpenVPN
- LinkedIn — nick-shchekoldin
- Email — nickshce@gmail.com

