Kristi N.
DevOps Engineer
His expertise spans container orchestration using Kubernetes and OpenShift, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and other major cloud platforms.
One of Kristi’s most impactful projects involved architecting and deploying Kubernetes clusters integrated with Kafka and RabbitMQ. He led the automation of infrastructure and the seamless integration of these tools into the broader application ecosystem, demonstrating his strong technical acumen and problem-solving abilities.
Kristi is certified in Kubernetes and holds multiple Microsoft Azure certifications, underscoring his dedication to continuous learning and professional growth. His combination of hands-on experience and a consultative approach makes him a valuable asset in building scalable, cloud-native infrastructure solutions.
Main expertise
Azure6 years
Security5 years
Git5 years
Jira3 yearsExperience2
DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer
- Created and administered Kubernetes clusters and resources, including deployment, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Ran and managed Helm charts for applications running on Microsoft Azure, GCP, and Openshift.
- Deployed, configured, and managed Apache Kafka Cluster, RabbitMQ, Apache Nifi, ArgoCD, Hashicorp Vault, CertManager, and ELK stack (Fluentbit, Elasticsearch, Kibana).
- Managed Azure infrastructure and utilized products such as AKS, Azure Keyvault, Azure Blob storage, ACR, Azure VM, and Azure Eventhubs.
- Implemented GitOps practices with ArgoCD and GitLab.
- Maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate standard processes.
- Automated cloud resources in Microsoft Azure and GCP using Terraform.
- Configured and managed Ansible templates on AWX to automate different work processes.
- Managed ingress controllers such as HaProxy and Contour.
- Administered Linux cloud servers and on-premises servers.
- Configured proprietary monitoring and reporting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Icinga.
- Managed protocols such as MQTT, AMQP, HTTPS, and TCP.
- Implemented LDAP, OIDC protocol, and Azure workload identity for secure application authentication and authorization.
- Used Python for automation of daily tasks and testing and FastAPI and Java for applications.
- Developed and implemented components and entire Middleware systems with TIBCO BW and Rust programming.
- Implemented API security layers using Azure Active Directory, JWT, and OAuth 2.0.
PostgreSQL
AWS
Apache Kafka
KubernetesAzureCloud Integration Developer
- Development of components and entire systems in various environments using TIBCO BW 5.15 and Rust programming for mapping, data integration, and data transformation.
- Development of REST API in Rust, deployed from Nginx API Gateway.
- Legacy systems migration to Docker containers, deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service.
- Using continuous integration pipelines built-in Git-CI/Jenkins for on-premises.
Engineering excellence
All DevOps Engineers who have applied to Proxify are scored from 0 to 300 on engineering excellence, one of the five parameters we evaluate. This score reflects engineering excellence only, based on interviews, take-home assignments, live coding sessions, and/or on-the-job performance reviews. The curve shows how all evaluated DevOps Engineers are distributed across that range, where our acceptance threshold for this parameter sits, and where Kristi stands.
Score 198 · Top 7% of engineers
Certificates 5
Education
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