Alex Dovnar

AWS Community builder

AWS Architect

DevOps Team and Tech lead

About Me

DevOps and cloud engineer with 10+ years of experience in AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud platforms. Strong in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm), Kubernetes, CI/CD, and monitoring.

Worked as a hands-on engineer and as a tech lead. Designed cloud architectures, launched new projects, supported production systems, and helped other engineers. Took part in 10+ projects end-to-end.

Age 34
Residence Belarus
e-Mail [email protected]

What I Do

Design secure, scalable AWS architectures with clear cost controls
Build CI/CD that shortens lead time and increases release safety
Create Kubernetes platforms with GitOps, observability, and sane defaults
Standardize Terraform/Terragrunt modules for reusable, compliant infra
Implement actionable monitoring (SLIs/SLOs), logging, tracing
Lead by doing: hands-on delivery, mentoring, and enablement

Fun Facts

Completed projects

40+

Coffee cups

3500+

Santa-Barbara series

1446

Resume

Experience

TECH LEAD / SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER • NAVITEQ LTD • JAN 2022 – PRESENT

• Worked on 10+ client projects: full cycle from design to production. • Designed and deployed AWS infrastructure: high availability, security, cost optimization (saved up to 40%). • Built and standardized Terraform/Terragrunt templates and CI/CD pipelines. • Managed Kubernetes clusters, wrote Helm charts, improved deployments. • Set up monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenSearch. • Supported other engineers with code reviews, mentoring, and architecture help.

SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER • ONESOIL • AUG 2021 – MAY 2022

• Designed AWS multi-account architecture. • Applied AWS best practices for security and scalability. • Reduced costs by ~30% with no performance loss. • Built Kubernetes platform for scalable deployments. • Added monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.

LEAD SYSTEM ENGINEER • EPAM SYSTEMS • APR 2016 – AUG 2021

• Grew from junior to lead engineer. • Designed AWS infrastructure and automated it with Terraform and Ansible. • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI and Jenkins. • Worked as team lead / tech lead: assigned tasks, reviewed solutions. • Migrated enterprise systems to the cloud (AWS, Azure). • Took part in several international projects (fintech, retail).

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER • RUE BELTELECOM • MAR 2011 – APR 2016

• Supported clients consuming Internet, VoIP & IPTV services. • Supported backbone network and corporate clients (VPN, Ethernet, SHDSL). • Automated network equipment maintenance with custom scripts.

Education

Engineer, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (2015)
Information technologies and management in technical systems
Ongoing professional education through certifications and community work

DevOps Skills

Cloud Architecture: AWS (security, networking, multi-account, FinOps), Azure, GCP
Platforms: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm; GitOps at scale
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins; trunk-based workflows
IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt, CDK, Pulumi; reusable modules, policy-as-code
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry; actionable SLOs and alerting
Security: IAM hardening, secret management, SBOM, supply chain controls
Cost: usage analytics, right-sizing, autoscaling, waste elimination
Ways of Working: pragmatic leadership, enablement, knowledge transfer