Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Vlad Doster is a Senior Cloud Software Engineer with 10 years of professional experience, specializing in designing, building, and maintaining cloud platforms and infrastructure. At Mastercard, they designed and built a global Platform-as-a-Service on Azure and AWS for microservice workloads, focusing on migration, regional landing zones, security, and PCI compliance using Terraform, Go, Node, Python, and Bash. At Harvard Medical School, they worked as an API/DevOps Software Engineer, managing an HPC cluster, implementing Python-based security scanning pipelines for Apptainer images, building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub and Jenkins, and using Puppet for configuration management and automated remediation. Earlier, as a Full-stack Software Engineer at Global Prior Art, they developed a Django-based system for patent data extraction using Celery, Selenium, and AWS API Gateway, automating deployments with GitHub Actions and Ansible. They also maintain the Zinit zsh plugin manager and contribute to open-source documentation. They are proficient in a wide array of technologies including Python, Go, Django, Terraform, Docker, Azure, AWS, CI/CD tools, and various database types. They are currently located in Nashville, TN, open to remote work, and willing to relocate to Boston or Nashville.