Lisbon, Portugal · UTC+0/+1

Mikhail Makarov

DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer

I build and run production infrastructure: Kubernetes platforms on bare metal and in the cloud, automation from first commit to disaster recovery, and the kind of deep troubleshooting that keeps databases, networks and storage alive at 3 a.m.

Email me Telegram @ops_wizard
15+
years in IT
7+
years in production infrastructure
3
platforms: bare metal, GCP, AWS
kubectl get engineer -o widekubectl describe engineer
NAME              ROLE                 FOCUS                          STATUS
mikhail-makarov   devops/sre/platform  k8s, talos, cilium, gitops     Ready
Name:    mikhail-makarov
Role:    devops/sre/platform
Focus:   k8s, talos, cilium, gitops
Status:  Ready

01 What I do

Kubernetes platforms

TalosOS, Deckhouse, Cilium/eBPF, Gateway API, ingress, load balancing and NetworkPolicy. Clusters from bootstrap to upgrades.

Observability and incidents

Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics/Logs, Loki and Hubble, plus deep Linux and network troubleshooting.

Data platforms

Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka/KRaft, Debezium, ClickHouse and Redis/Sentinel in production.

Storage and recovery

LINSTOR/DRBD, Ceph, NFS/CSI. Replication troubleshooting and recovery of degraded volumes.

High availability

Multi-DC design, traffic failover, database replication, failure domains and disaster-recovery planning.

Security and identity

Keycloak, Vault, FreeIPA/LDAP, OIDC/SSO, RBAC, TLS/PKI and secrets management.

02 Stack

Kubernetes

  • Kubernetes
  • TalosOS
  • Deckhouse
  • Cilium/eBPF
  • Hubble
  • Gateway API
  • cert-manager
  • Helm
  • containerd

Cloud

  • GCP
  • AWS
  • Bare metal
  • Proxmox/KVM
  • Docker

IaC and GitOps

  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Helmfile
  • Argo CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • TeamCity

Networking

  • HAProxy
  • Nginx
  • Keepalived
  • VXLAN
  • WireGuard
  • Tailscale/Headscale
  • nftables

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • VictoriaMetrics
  • VictoriaLogs
  • Loki
  • Graylog

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL/PXC
  • ClickHouse
  • MongoDB
  • Cassandra
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ

AI engineering

  • Claude Code
  • OpenAI Codex
  • MCP
  • Agentic workflows
  • Self-hosted LLM tooling

Languages

  • Python
  • Bash
  • Go
  • PHP

03 Experience

  1. Aug 2023 - now

    DevOps Engineer · technology product company

    Reliability and troubleshooting of large-scale production platforms in GCP and Kubernetes. Introduced Argo CD and GitOps delivery, moved observability to VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs, set up controlled engineer access with Hoop.

  2. Nov 2021 - May 2023

    DevOps Engineer · betting platform

    AWS production infrastructure for a betting platform: Kubernetes on Talos, Helm charts, CI in TeamCity and GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana and Loki.

  3. Jul 2020 - Nov 2021

    DevOps Engineer · software development company

    Bare-metal infrastructure from the ground up for a federal public-services system and an analytics platform: self-hosted GitLab, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Hadoop/Spark/HBase.

  4. Feb 2019 - Jun 2020

    DevOps Engineer · government platform

    Government product-labeling platform. Migrated a high-load production Kafka cluster between data centers; Hadoop ecosystem, Kubernetes, GitLab CI and Ansible.

  5. Aug 2013 - Feb 2019

    System Administrator · pharmaceutical distribution

    Distributed network of 400+ pharmacy stores: servers, warehouse systems, databases, Cisco and MikroTik networks.

St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Programming in Computer Systems · Russian (native), English (B2)

Let's talk infrastructure

Platform engineering, reliability, migrations and production troubleshooting.

mihailmakarov9959@gmail.com Telegram @ops_wizard