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About

Stanislav Cherkasov
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I am a Senior {DevOps,DevSecOps,Platform} Engineer. I work as a contractor with US and European companies, typically owning platform foundations from design to operation.

My recent work includes AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, as well as on-prem environments, Kubernetes at scale, infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible, and CI/CD with GitLab and GitHub Actions. I help teams ship safely and reliably by embedding security into pipelines and runtime environments, and by operating platforms against clear SLOs using metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting.

This blog continues my LinkedIn profile with practical notes on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, security automation, and operations. Everything here is non-confidential: either general guidance or personal work (for example, my homelab), and never anything covered by an NDA. Personal blog and personal views; verify any commands before use. For work inquiries, please reach out on LinkedIn.

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Selected work (GitHub)
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Platform / DevOps / GitOps
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  • mbkp - secure MikroTik backups over SSH (encrypted artifacts, cron-friendly automation)

  • golden-microservice - minimal HTTP service for Docker/Kubernetes deployment testing (traffic + health/readiness endpoints)

  • FastAPI CI/CD + GitOps - GitHub Actions pipeline (tests/build), publish to GHCR, update Kubernetes manifests, Argo CD sync

  • mobile_ci_cd - React Native CI/CD example (CircleCI + Fastlane), code signing, beta/prod distribution, white-label flow (conference demo)

Personal tooling
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