Experience

Operating Profile Link to heading

Co-founder and operator with a technical and sales background. I can own cloud infrastructure and security, sell directly to customers, shape product direction, hire and fire, handle accounting and legal paperwork, supervise open-source work, and keep moving when the first version is ugly. I am not afraid of boring administration, pivots, or spending time on a direction that later proves wrong.

My bias is simple: an 80% done ugly solution in 7 days beats a 100% perfect solution in 3 months. The world does not pause while a team waits for the perfect launch window. Ship, learn, protect the downside, and improve.

Selected Hard Signals Link to heading

Automated impulse-buy operations from 30-50 manual transactions per day to 1000+ automated transactions per day with one salesperson needed.
Reduced accounting work by 98% by connecting payment, social, website, and accounting systems through automation.
Delivered ECS migration work with 99.99% uptime, 90% lower container maintenance, a 70% faster release cycle, and 30% lower operational expense from shared ALB design.
Reused 90% of existing IaC and CI/CD codebases for white-label infrastructure delivery, reducing delivery time and production drift risk.

Current Roles Link to heading

Aug 2023 - present: AWS Engineer | AI Harness Engineer at Firi AS (Project McFly)
- Skills: Amazon ECS · AWS Security · GitHub Actions · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Terraform · Cloudflare · PostgreSQL/RDS/Aurora · Proxmox · Grafana/Prometheus
- Own AWS infrastructure and security work across ECS, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, MSK, Cloudflare, CI/CD, observability, stale resource cleanup, and production database operations.
- Build AI harnesses around real operational data: Text-to-SQL, RAG over private schema knowledge, agent guardrails, workflow state tracking, SQL error handling, unknown-question routing, and human review points.
- Use AI as an engineering multiplier for Terraform migrations, RDS TLS debugging, Redis migration support, repository security checks, documentation, and controlled automation.
- Keep infrastructure agents safe with read-only credentials, blocked destructive commands, denied Terraform apply paths, staged plans, review checkpoints, and separation between AI-generated work and human-approved production changes.
- Continue the broader Project McFly work: service-level security groups, Cloudflare WAF and Zero Trust, load balancing, tunnel and SSH access patterns, secondary-region readiness, ECS image inventory, and Grafana/Prometheus alerting.
2020 - present: Co-founder | Principal Consultant | Business Operator at FivexL
- Skills: Business Development · Hiring · Team Management · Accounting · Legal Operations · Open Source · AWS Consulting · Terraform · DevSecOps
- Run the unglamorous company work: business development, contracts, accounting, legal coordination, hiring and firing, client communication, delivery risk, and operational paperwork.
- Supervise consulting and open-source direction, keeping reusable infrastructure modules, security practices, and client delivery aligned with what the business can actually support.
- Balance technical delivery with business constraints: cash flow, client trust, delivery speed, reputation, and the cost of spending too long on a perfect solution.
Current: Co-founder | Product and Founder Sales at Sirob Tech
- Skills: Founder Sales · Direct Sales · Product Promotion · Business Development · Product Vision · UX · Integrations · Feature Prioritization · Customer Discovery
- Drive business development, product promotion, and direct sales, including founder-led conversations, product positioning, objections, demos, and practical follow-up.
- Shape product vision, UX, feature selection, integrations, and pivots based on real buyer feedback instead of abstract roadmap planning.
- Work across the uncomfortable middle of a startup: selling before the product is perfect, cutting scope, changing direction, and keeping momentum while learning from the market.
Current: AI Experiments | Private Notetaker | ZoJump and Personal Projects
- Skills: LLM Agents · RAG · Text-to-SQL · LangChain · LangGraph · LlamaIndex · Vanna AI · PostgreSQL/PGVector · SQLAlchemy · Slack Apps · GitHub Apps · Cloudflare Workers
- Build local-first AI experiments, including the Personal Private Notetaker concept for capturing commitments, extracting follow-up work, and delegating tasks to other agents while keeping sensitive notes under personal control.
- Build and test assistant layers such as Boris AI, using workspace knowledge, application context, Slack/GitHub hooks, and automation workflows to answer operational questions and route follow-up work.
- Treat experiments as founder learning loops: prove the workflow, find the failure modes, throw away what does not work, and keep the pieces that can become product or operational leverage.

Earlier Experience Link to heading

Sep 2022 - Aug 2023: Senior Consultant | Cloud Engineer at Hippo
- Skills: Amazon ECS · AWS Security · GitHub · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Terraform
- Set up a white-label solution that uses path-based routing, which is SEO-friendly. This lets you make many websites for different clients and makes businesses grow faster. The goal was achieved by implementing a custom CI/CD, which automatically generates the website and provides comprehensive documentation for patch-based client integration.
- Reused 90% of existing infrastructure as code and CI/CD codebases, accelerating project delivery times, by analyzing and repurposing components for the deployment of scalable and client-focused web infrastructures.
- Implemented the infrastructure configuration parity principle, which requires each environment to be identical, by establishing a uniform set of AWS accounts and infrastructure templates. It will result in 90% fewer production errors.
May 2021 - Jul 2022: Senior Consultant | Cloud Engineer at Firi AS (Project McFly)
- Skills: Amazon ECS/Fargate · AWS Security · GitHub Actions · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Terraform · Cloudflare · PostgreSQL/RDS/Aurora · Redis/ElastiCache · Grafana/Prometheus
- Led the first Project McFly migration from EC2 and BuddyWorks-based deployments to containerized ECS/Fargate services, using GitHub Actions, ECR, ECS, canary plans, and controlled traffic switching to keep production changes low-risk.
- Built the repeatable infrastructure foundation with Terraform modules, GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, AWS account organization, environment parity, and deployment templates for test and production services.
- Hardened network and access controls by reducing public SSH and database exposure, applying AWS SSO/VPN/Session Manager/ECS Exec patterns, using Cloudflare Access and Zero Trust, and cleaning up security groups, secrets, and legacy infrastructure.
- Modernized data and messaging dependencies through RDS Multi-AZ/Aurora work, test/prod database parity, Liquibase migrations, Redis replacement, MSK/Redpanda research, and operational RDS patching.
- Improved reliability and cost control with CloudWatch/ECS logs, Grafana/Prometheus/Better Uptime/Slack alerting, ECS self-healing practices, Fargate right-sizing, cost usage reporting, and removal of dangling resources.
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021: Consultant | Cloud Engineer at Ovrture
- Skills: Amazon ECS · AWS Security · GitHub · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Terraform
- A 99.99% uptime was achieved by implementing containerization and automated deployment processes (GitHub Actions) as part of the migration of applications to AWS ECS (EC2/Fargate).
- Using IaC with Terraform and AWS ECS to manage containers reduced maintenance by 90%.
- By using CI/CD for the Infrastructure and Applications, errors were almost eliminated. A multiple-environments setup with configuration parity lets teams test their changes before releasing them.
- Implemented GitOps principles and used GitHub Actions to streamline deployment processes, leading to a 70% faster release cycle.
- The handling of peak traffic periods was handled by an out-of-box scaling solution, which is part of AWS ECS.
- The implementation of centralized microservices traffic through a single reusable Amazon ALB has resulted in a 30% reduction in operational expenses.
2017-2020: Technical Director at Time for Image
- Skills: VMWare ESXi · Gitlab · Python (Programming Language) · Project Management · CIO · Kubernetes
- Created an automation system that integrates payment systems, social networks, the corporate website, and the accounting system for impulse buy products, escalating sales from 30-50 manual transactions per day to 1000+ automated transactions, with only 1 salesperson needed
- Achieved a 98% reduction in accounting tasks by automating data retrieval and integrating APIs into financial systems
- Automated the student onboarding process, reducing operational efforts
- Created a new revenue stream through the “Education Extension” product, increasing sales by automating access to educational materials
- Enabled daily deployments by implementing a CI/CD system
- Migrated legacy systems to Docker and Kubernetes
2010-2017: Senior System Administrator at Arima Holding Corp
- Skills: Microsoft Exchange · Active Directory · Network Security · Microsoft Servers · NetApp · VMWare ESXi · System Administration
- Successfully migrated all company servers to VMware, reducing IT operational costs and enhancing system security through strategic planning and execution of virtualization technologies.
- Optimized the IT department’s budget, reducing waste and maximizing resource utilization by establishing a controlled software licensing environment.
- Insured full compliance with software licensing requirements, reducing company risks and establishing a controlled licensing environment
- Mentored two interns annually in system administration, contributing to their professional growth
2008-2010: Freelance Web Developer
- Skills: HTLM · Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) · Website Updating · Adobe Photoshop · Digital Photography
- Improved website usability and visual appeal for an online wedding dress store by implementing HTML and CSS enhancements, optimizing product photos, facilitating addition of new products to the website

Education Link to heading

2010 - 2014:
- Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Computer Science
- Master Degree, GPA: 4.55 / 5
- Computers, complexes, systems, and networks
2006 - 2010:
- Moscow College of Informatics and Computer Engineering
- Engineer’s degree, GPA: 4.23 / 5
- Computer software and automated systems