Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Vlad Doster is a highly experienced Senior Cloud/Platform/DevOps Engineer with 10 years of professional experience. They have a strong background in designing and building Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for microservice workloads on Azure and AWS, facilitating the migration of on-premise systems to the cloud. They are proficient in creating global platforms, planning regional landing zones, and designing platform components using Terraform, Go, and Node. Their expertise extends to developing support tooling with Bash, Python, and Azure CLI, as well as de-risking platforms by addressing security vulnerabilities and ensuring PCI compliance.

At Harvard Medical School, they managed a 15k core CentOS HPC cluster, designed Python-based security scanning pipelines for Apptainer images via SLURM, coordinated cross-team emergency patching, and built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub and Jenkins. They also wrote Puppet modules for configuration management and automated remediation of security findings.

In a full-stack role, they utilized Django, Celery, Selenium grid, and AWS API Gateway for IP rotation to automate patent data extraction and reporting, saving significant daily hours. They also implemented E2E black-box/fuzzing unit tests and automated on-premise deployments with GitHub Actions and Ansible.

Beyond professional roles, Vlad is an active open-source contributor, maintaining Zinit (a zsh plugin manager with 4k stars) and contributing hundreds of documentation corrections to over 400 open-source projects. They are open to remote work and willing to relocate to Boston or Nashville.