About
Stanislav Cherkasov#
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, on-prem environments, Kubernetes at scale, infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible, and CI/CD with GitLab and GitHub Actions.
The common thread is reliable delivery: secure pipelines, observable runtime environments, clear SLOs, and systems that can be handed over without guesswork.
This blog complements my GitHub and LinkedIn profiles with practical notes on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, security automation, and operations.
Everything here is non-confidential: either general guidance or personal work, 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.
Quick links#
Selected work (GitHub)#
- 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)
- dotfiles - Arch Linux workstation automation with Ansible, go-task, uv, and Neovim
- fastapi-k8s-gitops-task - archived real hiring task: FastAPI service with CI/CD, Docker, GHCR, Kubernetes manifests, and GitOps deployment flow
- ansible-mitogen-benchmarks - reproducible Ansible strategy benchmarks with playbooks, configs, and hyperfine
- terraform-nexus-apt-proxy - Terraform module for Sonatype Nexus APT proxy repositories
Talk#
Related repo: mobile_ci_cd