Platform / DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Altair Yedressov

Platform engineer with 5+ years operating production Kubernetes at scale — 10+ EKS clusters, 20+ microservices, supporting 40+ engineers across The Home Depot and Ring (Amazon). I build self-service infrastructure: GitOps pipelines that cut release cycles from days to hours, Teleport-based access control that reduced engineer onboarding/offboarding from days to minutes, and observability that caught a critical checkout failure mid-Black Friday and prevented multi-million-dollar revenue loss. AWS, Terraform, CKA & CKAD certified. I sit with product teams — not separate from them.

5+
Years Experience
10+
EKS Clusters
20+
Microservices
40+
Engineers Supported
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Skills & Tools

Cloud & Infra
AWS Azure GCP Terraform Helm Kubernetes Docker Linux Karpenter Rancher
CI/CD & GitOps
GitHub Actions FluxCD ArgoCD Jenkins GitLab CI
Observability
Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager OpenTelemetry EFK Stack CloudWatch Datadog
Security
Teleport HashiCorp Vault IAM VPC Security Azure Key Vault mTLS Audit Logging
Data & Messaging
Apache Kafka Amazon Kinesis PgBouncer RDS Aurora DocumentDB DynamoDB
AI & Dev Tools
Claude Claude Code GitHub Copilot Cursor ChatGPT MCP AI Agents Prompt Engineering
Practices
SLA/SLO Incident Response Jira Confluence API Design
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Experience

Infrastructure / Platform Engineer
The Home Depot
Feb 2022 – Present · Hybrid
  • Own the platform serving 10+ EKS clusters and 20+ microservices — built self-service CI/CD that lets 40+ engineers ship to production without DevOps involvement, cutting release cycles from days to hours across Java, Node.js, and Python services
  • Detected and resolved a critical checkout failure during Black Friday traffic using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager deployed via FluxCD — preventing potential multi-million-dollar revenue impact
  • Deployed Teleport for centralized access control across AWS and Kubernetes — eliminated shared credentials, enabled per-session audit logging for SOC compliance
  • Migrated from ArgoCD to FluxCD for a lighter, controller-based GitOps architecture — enforces continuous cluster reconciliation with Git
  • Managed 10+ EKS clusters via Rancher with zero unplanned downtime — node autoscaling via Karpenter, resource quotas, rolling updates
  • Created permission-boundary policies and automated IAM role provisioning using Terraform — adopted as team standard
  • Provisioned databases (RDS/Aurora/DocumentDB) with Terraform and implemented cross-region backup strategies with sub-30-minute recovery objectives
  • Standardized reusable Terraform module library across cloud deployments
  • Migrated services from Azure (AKS, Blob Storage, SQL) and GCP (GKE, GCS) to AWS (EKS, S3, RDS, EC2)
Junior DevOps Engineer
Ring (Amazon)
Mar 2020 – Jan 2022 · Remote
  • Containerized 8 legacy services with Docker and migrated to AWS EKS — cut infrastructure costs by ~$50K/year
  • Built EFK centralized logging stack for 15+ microservices — reduced average developer debug time from hours to minutes
  • Migrated event streaming pipelines from Apache Kafka to Amazon Kinesis with zero data loss
  • Created reusable Terraform modules for IAM role provisioning and least-privilege policy management
  • Partnered with 4 engineering teams to migrate from manual deploys to fully automated GitHub Actions pipelines
  • Hardened network security via VPC segmentation, security group audits, and mTLS enforcement — passed first internal security review with zero critical findings
  • Architected multi-region failover on AWS after identifying single-region risk
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Certifications

CKA
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CKAD
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
TF-004
Terraform Associate (004)
AWS SAA
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
04

Projects

This Portfolio App
Two-tier portfolio application with a Node.js frontend and Python FastAPI backend, containerized with Docker and deployed on AWS EKS via Kubernetes manifests. Built with Claude AI assistance.
Node.js Express Python FastAPI Docker Kubernetes EKS Claude AI
Insio
Contributed to Insio — a collaborative platform project leveraging modern cloud-native architecture and DevOps best practices for streamlined team workflows.
Cloud-Native DevOps CI/CD Kubernetes
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How This App Works

Two-Tier Architecture on AWS EKS
User
Browser
HTTPS request
→
Frontend
Node.js + Express
Port 3000 · EJS templates
→
Backend API
Python + FastAPI
Port 8000 · /api/*