Artem Tokarev

Expert DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer at Zühlke Group

Sept 2022 – Present | London, UK

Kubernetes platform on Azure (Apr 2026 – Present)

• Operate and evolve a multi-environment AKS platform (dev/stage/prod) with secure workload isolation
• Defined deployment standards with Helmfile and diff-based workflows for consistent, auditable releases

Serverless & container platform (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026)

• Introduced Lambda Layers to standardise dependencies, cutting Lambda package size by 99%
• Led the migration from EC2 Auto Scaling to ECS, designing deployment patterns and container workflows

Global telecom client (Apr 2023 – Mar 2025)

• Designed hybrid identity between on-premises and AWS with IAM Roles Anywhere and Private CA, saving nearly £1M
• Built a scalable serverless Kubernetes platform on EKS with Knative
• Created reusable Terraform modules for multi-region architecture
• Ran Prometheus observability for distributed systems and GitLab CI pipelines

Regulated insurance client (Sept 2022 – Apr 2023)

• Reduced AWS costs by £15,000/year (~20% of total spend) through architectural optimisation
• Hardened containers with vulnerability scanning; shrank Docker images 20x with Alpine base images
• Automated infrastructure and pipelines with CloudFormation and CodePipeline

DevOps Engineer / Solutions Architect at Svitlofour

Jul 2022 – Aug 2022 | Croatia

• Designed a multi-account serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, DynamoDB, CloudFront, S3) with near-zero off-peak cost
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code with reusable Terraform and Terragrunt modules
• Delivered secure CI/CD pipelines with AWS-native tooling

DevOps Engineer at NIX

Mar 2015 – Aug 2022 | Kharkiv, Ukraine

Platform Engineer (2022)

• Led an ephemeral Kubernetes testing platform for an enterprise client: provisioning cut from 1–2 days to ~4 minutes, 10x deployment frequency, 100+ developers testing in parallel, 60% lower infrastructure costs
• Troubleshot, tuned and hardened production Kubernetes nodes; centralised logging and alerting with CloudWatch

Platform Engineer (2019–2022)

• Engineered scalable backend infrastructure for a real-time video platform (Google Meet–like) for enterprise clients
• Introduced service isolation and container security best practices across microservices
• Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines with test, build and deploy stages

DevOps Engineer (2019)

• Automated AMI builds with Packer and event-driven workflows with EventBridge
• Secured test report storage with S3 and IAM policies

DevOps Engineer (2016–2019)

• Built and operated an internal Kubernetes platform on EKS with Helm, Istio and nginx ingress, with observability and reusable deployment patterns

Systems Administrator

2008 – 2015 | Ukraine

• LLC MAXNET (2014–2015): Linux servers and Cisco/D-Link network switching
• Mageal (2008–2014): Linux servers, virtualisation and enterprise networking for internal services used by 10k+ users