Frankly, defining Work and Non-Work is a bit of a challenge for me, since I enjoy my work so much.

I’ll use Work to describe what I do most of the time and Non-Work to describe what I’m doing in-between.

Work

These days I’m mostly focused on consulting as a fractional Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer. I enjoy working with small and mid-size startups, where I can leverage a mix of my technical and business skills. Depending on my load I can be available for 5-20 hours per week (reach out).

1. SRE & DevOps Projects

These projects occupy the biggest chunk of my time on a regular basis.

I use my hands-on skills as an SRE, DevOps or Cloud Architect

• Event Management Platform (AWS, RDS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, Ruby on Rails
• Transportation Management Platform (AWS, RDS, DynamoDB, Serverless, Terraform, GitOps, TypeScript)
• Scalable Browser Automation System (AWS, MongoDB, ECS, Terraform, GitOps, Selenium Grid, C#)

For the list of past projects see Past Projects.

2. Lab Projects

Since I enjoy SRE & DevOps so much (maybe too much) I decided to challenge myself and start building projects where I can stay away from anything DevOps-related.

I tend to write in Python, Go and TypeScript. I try to do my best no to get involved in infrastructure work as much as possible while doing my Lab Projects.

2.1. Travel Expense Assistant for Solopreneurs

• Stack: Python, Flask, Supabase, TypeScript
• Deployment: Google App Script, Hetzner Cloud, Kamal
• Description: Tool that helps solopreneurs to track their travel expenses and maximize deductions.

I use it a lot myself, but there is no public version yet.

2.2. Reward Travel Assistant

• Stack: Python, Flask, Playwright
• Deployment: Hetzner Cloud, Kamal
• Description: Tool that helps you find best route using travel redemptions for your travel direction.

Still MVP, I’m working on the automated search at the moment using Playwright.

Non-Work

This is a hard one to point out, since the Work section is basically what I enjoy the most.

1. Languages

Learned a tiny bit of Japanese recently.

I love languages. At the moment I can communicate in English, Russian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Croatian and Ukrainian and some others at varying levels.

2. Music

I got a KORG nanoKEY2, and I’m having a lot of fun with it.

Also discovered a free DX7 plugin Dexed and got really impressed.

3. Travel

I travel a lot for a mix of business and pleasure. I’ve been to Japan some time ago and it turned out to be a good combination of both.

4. Video Games

I’ve played Hitman 3 recently and really enjoyed it. I’m often “late to the game”. Sometimes too late, and I have not played GTA V yet.