About

Systems development engineer.

I build and automate scalable platforms so large systems deploy faster, fail less often, and stay visible in production.

Impact snapshot

80%

Deploy time cut

90%

Fewer prod bugs

90%

Less downtime

500+

Ansible servers

Experience

Role-by-role proof from cloud platforms, release systems, and production operations.

What changed in each role, what shipped, and where the strongest outcomes came from.

Jan 2025 – present

Amazon Web Services

Systems Engineer

I work inside large-scale AWS systems: automating services, fixing bugs in code, and adding the monitoring those infrastructure components need.

Automate AWS services so operational work is repeatable.
Write code to fix bugs and implement monitoring.
Work with infrastructure components inside large-scale systems.
AWS Automation Monitoring Large-scale systems

Aug 2019 – Dec 2024

Deutsche Telekom

Senior DevOps Engineer

Release and infrastructure became code: GitOps for 17 projects, Kubernetes for the runtime, and Terraform for the machines underneath.

Implemented a GitOps deployment strategy for 17 projects that cut deployment times by 60% and made feature releases more frequent.
Led the move to microservices on Kubernetes, cutting downtime during deployments by 50%.
Integrated and managed GitLab CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, cutting post-production bugs by 70%.
Introduced infrastructure as code with Terraform and Terragrunt across more than 200 machines, cutting provisioning time by 50%.
GitOps Kubernetes GitLab CI Terraform Terragrunt

Jul 2017 – Jul 2019

IPHH GmbH

DevOps Engineer

Configuration, monitoring, and dashboards for a large server fleet, plus day-to-day mentoring for the engineers learning that system.

Introduced Ansible configuration management for 500+ servers, cutting systems downtime by 50%.
Implemented monitoring with the ELK stack and Nagios, improving detection of system bottlenecks by 80%.
Built performance metrics and dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana, improving system availability by 25%.
Mentored 3 junior engineers, contributing to a 15% increase in team productivity.
Ansible ELK Nagios Prometheus Grafana

Education

Azerbaijan Technical University

Oct 2008 – Oct 2011

Bachelor degree

Major: Telecommunication

Azerbaijan Technical University

Aug 1998 – Jul 2000

Master degree

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Azerbaijan Technical University

Sep 1995 – Jul 1998

Bachelor degree

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Certifications

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Oracle SQL Expert
IBM System Administrator

Scale

17

GitOps projects

200+

Machines as code

80%

Bottleneck detection

25% higher system availability from Prometheus and Grafana.
Mentored 3 junior engineers.
15% increase in team productivity.

Profile

Languages

Azerbaijani English German Russian Turkish

Hobbies

Motorcycling Reading Traveling

Skills

Cloud computing

VMware AWS

Containers and orchestration

Docker Kubernetes Helm Rancher Istio Terraform Terragrunt

Continuous integration and deployment

GitLab CI/CD ArgoCD Jenkins

Configuration management

Ansible Puppet

Scripting and programming

Bash Perl Go