Hi, I'm

Alexander Samay

Platform / DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Building resilient infrastructure at scale — Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and everything in between.

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01.About Me

Infrastructure & Platform Engineer based in Boston, MA — I build the systems that let engineers ship faster, sleep better, and spend less.

With 5+ years of hands-on experience, I manage large-scale Kubernetes environments, build self-service CI/CD pipelines, and automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform — from cluster provisioning to policy enforcement.

Most recently I've managed 15+ EKS clusters and 20+ microservices, building deployment pipelines that serve 30+ engineers — cutting release cycles from days to hours.

I'm passionate about GitOps, observability, cost optimization, and building platforms that let engineering teams ship faster with confidence.

KubernetesTerraformGitOps CI/CDObservabilityCost Optimization

alexander@infra ~ /about

$ whoami

alexander-samay

$ cat role.txt

Platform / DevOps / Cloud Engineer

$ location

Boston, MA

$ focus --list

→ self-service platforms

→ reliability & observability

→ cloud cost efficiency

02.Skills & Tools

alexander@infra ~ /skills

$ ls skills/ --grouped

☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS
Azure
GCP
Terraform
Helm
Kubernetes
Docker
Linux
Karpenter
Rancher
Istio
Velero

🔄 CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions
FluxCD
ArgoCD
Jenkins
GitLab CI

📊 Observability

Prometheus
Grafana
Alertmanager
OpenTelemetry
EFK Stack
CloudWatch
Datadog
Thanos

🔒 Security

Teleport
HashiCorp Vault
IAM
VPC Security
mTLS
Kyverno
SealedSecrets
Audit Logging

🗄️ Data & Messaging

Apache Kafka
Amazon Kinesis
PgBouncer
RDS
Aurora
DocumentDB
DynamoDB

🤖 AI & Dev Tools

Claude
Claude Code
GitHub Copilot
Cursor
MCP
AI Agents
Prompt Engineering

03.Experience

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Sep 2023 — Present

Boston, MA

Current

Platform / DevOps Engineer

Engineered and operated a production AWS/EKS platform spanning 15+ clusters and 20+ microservices, enabling self-service delivery for 30+ engineers; reduced cloud spend by 40% and accelerated releases from days to hours.
Build and operate secure AWS infrastructure for enterprise, Tier-0 production systems.
Deliver cloud-native APIs and event-driven services using Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, RabbitMQ, Python, TypeScript, and Java.
Improve production observability, alerting, and incident response with Datadog, Splunk, and centralized logging.

AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Serverless
Event-driven
Observability

iRobot

Sep 2020 — Aug 2023

Bedford, MA

DevOps Engineer

Maintained Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Artifactory services and integrations across the organization.
Connected robotics, cloud, mobile, operating-system, and machine-learning teams to shorten customer release cycles.
Built infrastructure, APIs, and automation for an internal platform providing shared engineering test resources.

Jenkins
Bitbucket
Artifactory
AWS
Linux
Automation

04.Education

Clark University

Master's degree · MSPC

2017 — 2019 · GPA 3.82

South Ural State University (SUSU)

Master's degree · Information Technology Project Management

2017 — 2019

05.Certifications

CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundation · CNCF

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CKAD — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

The Linux Foundation · CNCF

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

Amazon Web Services

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HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

HashiCorp

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AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

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06.Get in Touch

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