Ян

IAN STADNIK
Junior DevOps Engineer

[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | Kyiv, Ukraine | [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) | github.com/sneikovich

S U M M A RY

Junior DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in containerization, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code.
Strong foundation in cybersecurity and systems programming, gained through academic study and applied through
team-based robotics engineering. Comfortable working across the stack — from low-level virtualization to cloud-native
deployment pipelines. Eager to grow expertise in reliability engineering and automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Containers Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

Cloud Services AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch)

IaC Terraform, Ansible, Nix

Languages Go, Python, Shell scripting, C

Virtualization QEMU, KVM

WORK EXPERIENCE

Junior DevOps Engineer — Deftech January 2026 — Present

Kyiv, Ukraine

• Containerized existing services with Docker and Podman, and deployed workloads to a Kubernetes cluster using
Helm charts for repeatable releases.
• Configured Envoy Gateway as the ingress layer for internal microservices, defining routing rules and traffic policies.
• Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC) using Terraform, and automated configuration
management with Ansible.
• Wrote automation and tooling scripts in Python and Shell to support CI/CD pipelines and routine operational tasks.
• Maintained reproducible development environments with Nix, and supported local testing using QEMU/KVM virtual
machines.
• Participated in on-call rotation and incident triage, documenting runbooks to improve team response time.

PROJECTS

KPI Hackathon 2026 — Team Lead, 3rd Place 2026

Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

• Led a team to build a robotics platform combining computer vision, LiDAR-based algorithms, and autonomous pilot
control, placing 3rd overall.
• Coordinated task distribution across vision, navigation, and control sub-teams, and set up the development/testing
infrastructure used throughout the hackathon.
• Integrated LiDAR point-cloud processing with the autopilot decision loop to enable real-time obstacle avoidance.

E D U C AT I O N

Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUСA) 2025 — 2027

Faculty of Automation and Information Technologies — Cybersecurity

Uzhhorod National University (UzhNU) 2023 — 2024

Faculty of Physics — Cybersecurity