Alex Dovnar

DevOps & Cloud Architect with 10+ years of experience building scalable infrastructure on AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud platforms.

Expertise: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm), Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring & observability, and cloud architecture design.

AI-augmented engineering: coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot), MCP integrations, and agentic workflow development applied to DevOps automation.

Track Record: Led technical teams, designed cloud architectures from scratch, launched 10+ production systems end-to-end, and mentored engineers across multiple organizations.

AWS Community Builder and certified cloud professional passionate about automation, DevOps best practices, and sharing knowledge through talks and technical content.

Tech Lead / Senior DevOps Engineer • Naviteq Ltd • Jan 2022 – Present

• Delivered 10+ client projects end-to-end, from architecture design to production.
• Architected and deployed highly available, secure AWS infrastructure with cost optimization (saved up to 40%).
• Standardized reusable Terraform/Terragrunt templates and CI/CD pipelines across teams.
• Operated Kubernetes clusters and authored Helm charts to streamline deployments.
• Built monitoring and logging stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenSearch.
• Mentored engineers through code reviews and architecture guidance.

Senior DevOps Engineer • OneSoil • Aug 2021 – May 2022 (consulting)

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

Lead System Engineer • EPAM Systems • Apr 2016 – Aug 2021

• Grew from junior to lead engineer over five years.
• Designed AWS infrastructure and automated it with Terraform and Ansible.
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI and Jenkins.
• Led the team as tech lead: planned work, assigned tasks, and reviewed solutions.
• Migrated enterprise systems to the cloud (AWS, Azure).
• Delivered several international projects across fintech and retail.

Senior Network Engineer • RUE Beltelecom • Mar 2011 – Apr 2016

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

• Cloud Architecture: AWS (security, networking, multi-account, FinOps), Azure, GCP
• Platforms: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm; GitOps at scale
• AI Engineering: AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot), MCP servers & integrations, agentic workflows & LLM-driven automation
• 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

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