Hello, I'm

Zheenbek Karaev

DevOps / SRE Engineer with 5+ years of experience supporting cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and production systems across enterprise retail and financial environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud: AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Route53, EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch) Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible Containers/Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch Programming: Python, Bash Concepts: Microservices, High Availability, CI/CD, GitOps, HA/DR, RTO/RPO, DevSecOps OS: Linux, Windows Server, Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, HTTP/S, SSH, UDP, Infrastructure: Active Directory, NFS, Virtualization, Operations : Backup & Recovery, Incident Management, System Monitoring

Location: Chicago, USA

Focus: AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform

Open to: DevOps / Cloud / SRE opportunities

PROJECTS:

Kafka Enterprise Orders

Microservices app with Kafka. Deployed using Docker and Kubernetes. Infrastructure managed with Terraform. CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

Tech: Kafka, K8s, Docker, Terraform

Octopus AI Tutorials

Created video scripts and documentation for a TMS platform used in trucking. Covered loads, safety, mobile app, and reporting.

Tech: TMS, Trucking, Documentation

JumpToTech Microservices Platform

Full-stack microservices platform deployed on Kubernetes using GitOps and CI/CD automation. Includes frontend, API gateway, backend services, database, monitoring stack, and automated deployments.

Tech: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, ArgoCD, FastAPI, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana

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Feel free to reach out if you want to talk about DevOps, cloud, or projects.