Senior Cloud & DevOps Software Engineer

Vlad Doster is a Senior Cloud Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, specializing in designing and building Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for microservice workloads on Azure and AWS, facilitating global on-prem to cloud migrations. They have expertise in creating regional landing zones, designing platform components with Terraform, Go, and Node, and developing support tooling with Bash, Python, and Azure CLI. A strong focus is placed on de-risking platforms by addressing security vulnerabilities and ensuring PCI compliance.

Prior experience includes working as an API/DevOps Software Engineer at Harvard Medical School, managing a large CentOS HPC cluster, implementing Python-based security scanning pipelines, coordinating emergency patching, and building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub and Jenkins. They also used Puppet for configuration management and automated remediation of security findings.

As a Full-stack Software Engineer at Global Prior Art, they leveraged Django, Celery, Selenium grid, and AWS API Gateway for data scraping, CV-based data extraction, and report generation, automating deployments with GitHub Actions and Ansible.

Vlad is also an active open-source contributor, maintaining Zinit (a zsh plugin manager with 4k stars) for 5 years and contributing hundreds of documentation corrections to over 400 open-source projects. Their profile indicates a strong background in cloud architecture, DevOps, security, full-stack development, and open-source contributions. They are remote-friendly and willing to relocate to Boston or Nashville. Their GitHub profile is available at http://github.com/vladdoster.