Ashot Arushanyan

Senior DevOps Engineer · independent contractor

May 2026 – present · remote

• Built automated credential rotation with no downtime for a FIPS 140-3 AWS GovCloud platform, using HashiCorp Vault on Gardener-managed Kubernetes.
• Implemented a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner fleet on EC2 spot with Terraform lowering CI cost by 30% and cutting workflow time from 32 to 12 minutes.
• Moved Cloudflare from ClickOps to Terraform and migrated 18 domains across accounts through DNS cutovers without downtime.

Senior DevOps Engineer · MaxDuel

Jan 2025 – present · remote

• Designed the Terraform for the whole GCP setup of a product rebrand from scratch with reusable modules, no copied code allowing provisioning of new environments in under 30 minutes.
• Provisioned and operated GKE clusters with 80+ microservices, moved deployments from push-based CI to GitOps with ArgoCD making rollbacks easier and cutting deploy time by 50%.
• Set up Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and Tempo for metrics, logs and traces across every service lowering MTTD from 20 to 5 minutes.
• Wrote Python tools for alert routing, IAM audits and running SQL across environments.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer · Metric Gaming

Sep 2023 – Jan 2025 · remote

• Maintained 200+ microservices on 10 EKS clusters at 99.9% uptime.
• Switched EKS node autoscaling to Karpenter saving 60% on infrastructure (about $120K a year).
• Rebuilt CI on Bitbucket Pipelines reducing costs 80% and making builds 3x faster.
• Automated vulnerability reports for PCI-DSS, GLI-33 and ISO 27001 audits, shrinking audit prep from two weeks to two days.
• Added Conduktor for centralized Kafka monitoring with Slack alerts on consumer lag and broker health bringing Kafka incident detection down from 10 to 2 minutes.
• Introduced an RFC process for infrastructure changes (40+ written, adopted by six other teams) and incident management with P1-P4 severities, clear roles during an incident and postmortems with ownership for each action item.

Infrastructure Engineer · SADA, An Insight Company

Mar 2021 – Aug 2023 · Yerevan, Armenia

• Led technical discovery with customers for 8 projects, scoped and wrote each SOW and delivered the agreed scope.
• Built 6 GCP landing zones for new customers in Fintech, Healthcare, E-commerce and more.
• Migrated 400+ VMs from on-prem into Terraform-managed GCP.

scenar.io · creator (scenar.site)

A side project: AI-powered DevOps interview practice, designed and built solo with TypeScript, Svelte 5, the Claude API and Fly.io.