Vasyl Korytov

Lead DevOps | Infrastructure Architect | Systems Engineer

Dnipro, Ukraine v.korytov@outlook.com chillum.github.io

Summary

Senior infrastructure and DevOps leader with 20+ years of hands-on experience and 5+ years in technical leadership. Specializes in designing resilient infrastructure, architecting automation at scale, and leading cross-functional teams. Strong advocate for GitOps, open-source collaboration, and scalable, secure platforms. Seeks a lead or principal role at a modern, remote-first product company.

Education

Master of psychology, psychology teacher. Jewish University in Moscow
(2002-2007, 10 semesters)

Post doctorate: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
(2007-2010, 5 semesters)

Core competencies

• Infrastructure & Architecture: GitOps, IaC, Kubernetes, cloud-native systems
• Leadership: hiring, mentoring, planning, code reviews, cross-functional collaboration
• Automation & CI/CD: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform, pipelines, auto-testing
• Cloud & Containers: AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, OpenShift, Helm, K8s
• Programming: Go, Python, Groovy, Ruby, JavaScript, shell
• Open Source: contributor to Emacs, Jenkins, X.Org; Chocolatey maintainer
• Dev Tooling: Git, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, EFK, Graylog
• English: C1 written or spoken

Open Source & Community

• Long-standing contributor to open source since early 2000s
• Contributions to Emacs, Jenkins, X.Org
• Maintainer of Chocolatey packages
• Mentored developers and QA engineers outside immediate team

Hobbies

Bass player (semi-professional), photographer (amateur)

Work experience

DevOps Team Lead, Sandsiv Group Ltd. (2021-2025)

• Designed and led the company-wide GitOps transformation using ArgoCD, slashing deployment time from 1 hour of manual effort to 5 minutes of fully automated processes
• Introduced automated testing post-deployment, eliminating 1+ hour of manual QA effort per release
• Architected a self-hosted on-prem installation suite for the product platform
• Led a DevOps team: hiring, mentoring, technical planning, and reviews
• Oversaw tech debt reduction and modernized delivery workflows

Senior DevOps engineer, GlobalLogic (2020-2021)

• Led migration to cloud-native infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code practices
• Built robust CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation tooling
• Conducted R&D for optimized client cloud migrations
• Actively involved in code reviews and solution architecture

Senior DevOps Engineer, Codefresh (2019-2020)

• Built and maintained Helm charts and deployment pipelines
• Designed custom Prometheus exporters and Grafana dashboards
• Refactored legacy infrastructure to support new client needs
• Implemented proactive monitoring and alerting systems

Sr. DevOps/Systems architect, Fortifier (2015-2019)

• Designed and built company-wide infrastructure across AWS and Azure
• Formed and mentored the DevOps team
• Led IaC, automation, containerization, and auditing processes
• Unified dev and ops workflows, implemented robust CI/CD

DevOps, Roch Systems LLC (2014)

• Developed internal tools used in development and production environments
• Automated builds and service provisioning

Deployment lead, Inside Systems LLC (2012-2014)

• Architected scalable cluster solution handling up to 8GB/s HTTP traffic
• Designed DB, load balancer, and Puppet-based infra automation
• Managed release cycles and system performance testing

Chief information officer, Hot Spot (2011-2012)

• Built and led sysadmin department
• Planned infrastructure, implemented policies, and led IT strategy
• Collaborated with developers on performance tuning and security