Oleksandr Kashuba

Systems & Cloud Engineer focused on reliability and automation.

Hardware-to-cloud engineer: diagnose and build systems, manage Linux/Windows, design secure cloud platforms, and automate delivery pipelines for consistent, incident-free releases.

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AWSAWS
AzureAzure
Azure DevOpsAzure DevOps
TerraformTerraform
AnsibleAnsible
DockerDocker
KubernetesKubernetes
JenkinsJenkins
GitHubGitHub
GrafanaGrafana
PythonPython
BashBash
PowerShellPowerShell
LinuxLinux

Skills

Cloud

AWS & Azure — IAM, secure VPCs, compute (EC2/ECS/EKS), managed DBs, serverless/app services.

Systems

Linux & Windows — hardening, systemd/logs, TCP/IP, DNS/DHCP/VPN, shell scripting.

Automation

Terraform & Ansible — modules, state/workspaces, secrets (Vault/SSM), CI/CD hooks, Packer images.

DevOps

Docker, Kubernetes (ingress, autoscaling, RBAC), Helm/Kustomize, GitOps with ArgoCD/Flux.

CI/CD & Tooling

GitHub Actions, Terraform Cloud, Docker Compose, kubectl/helm, jq/yq.

Observability

Prometheus + Alertmanager, Grafana, CloudWatch, Loki/ELK basics, metrics/logs/traces, SLOs.

Security

IAM least-privilege, segmentation, secrets management, baseline hardening, threat-aware reviews.

Infrastructure & Architecture

RAID/NVMe/SATA, diagnostics, VMware/VirtualBox, cost-aware design.

Core Strengths

Systems & Hardware

  • PC build/diagnostics, Windows/Linux admin (AD/GPO, backups, virtualization).
  • Networking: VLANs, routing, VPNs, firewalls.

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS/Azure (IAM, VPC/VNet, compute/storage).
  • Secure, cost-efficient designs; hybrid on-prem + cloud.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

  • Terraform modules; Ansible for configs/patching.
  • Repeatable builds, drift detection, CI/CD integration.

DevOps & Delivery Engineering

  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins), release pipelines.
  • Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Helm, logging/metrics.

Reliability & Troubleshooting

  • Incident response, RCA, performance debugging.
  • Dashboards/alerts, noise reduction, prevention focus.

Certifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner badge AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS Solutions Architect Associate badge AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Languages: English / Ukrainian / Russian Location: Massachusetts, USA (remote-friendly)

Education

  • Bunker Hill Community College — Computer Science, 2018–2021 (Focus: C#, Java)
  • National Academy of Internal Affairs — Law, 2014–2018