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Nikita Savvin

DevOps | SDET Engineer

Serbia, Belgrade, CET

About

  • Transitioning to DevOps SDET Engineer.
  • Interested in architecting and system development. Recent hand-on experience is: K8s (Kubernetes), cloud providers, CI/CD, automation processes, micro-services, real-time SLA and distributed systems.
  • Experienced in product reliability and performance.

Work Experience

Admirals

DevOps

2025 - Present
K8sAWSTerraformCI/CDHelmAnsibleMonitoringSLAVM
  • Implemented and maintained hybrid infrastructure on AWS and bare metal. Used K8s, Minikube, K3s for various scenarios.
  • Worked on automation using Ansible, Puppet and custom scripts.
  • Worked on infrastructure using Terraform (Terragrunt).
  • Worked on VM‘s / HyperV and infrastructure for critical services, providing environment for mobile apps and web apps for automation testing purposes.
  • Developed and updated Helm charts for K8s deployments.
  • Administrated and worked on Gitlab, CI/CD and pipelines for various projects and scenarios, providing flexible and reliable deployment and test processes.
  • Worked with registries and mirroring solutions.
  • Worked with monitoring tools such as: Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix and others.
  • Worked with Akamai CDN.
  • Worked on SAST and DAST tools and processes.
  • Collaborated with Engineering and SRE teams to improve system reliability and performance.

SDET Specialist

2023
SeleniumSelenideAppiumJavaMonitoringAutomation
SDET in fintech company that provide trading platform and services.
  • Built an automation environment with various tools, utilities and integrations among with CI/CD using such tools as Gitlab, Helm, Ansible and others.
  • Engineered and structured Kubernetes solution on AWS for continuous site reliability monitoring.
  • Worked on improving platform reliability, observability and monitoring using: Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Zabbix and other monitoring tools.
  • Developed and maintained an automated tests solution from scratch, covering API and UI testing. Covered critical business logic and services.
  • Developed mobile automation environment and tests for iOS and Android apps.
  • Developed SLA and alert services that provide 24/7platform monitoring and alerting.
  • Mentoring and supporting team members. Providing documentation and knowledge mind maps achieving faster onboarding.

Inspera

Senior Automation Specialist

2022 - 2023
JavaSelenideCI/CDAutomationK8sAWSTestRail
Senior Automation Specialist in a company providing assessment tests and unique platform for educational institutions.
  • Developed and maintained an automated tests from scratch, covering API and UI testing.
  • Built an automation environment with various tools, utilities and integrations among with CI/CD.
  • Supported test strategy of the engineering team.
  • Worked with world wide assessment test solutions and educational institutions.

MetaMap (Mati.io)

Lead QA Engineer

2021 - 2022
JavaPythonPlaywrightAWSK8sJenkinsTestRail
Lead QA Engineer at Mati.io (renamed to MetaMap), a leading identity verification and biometry platform.
  • Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures in international distributed team (US, MX, India, FR, RU, Asia, EU, etc.)
  • Developed and maintained automation tests covering UI and API. Worked with: Gitlab, Jenkins, Playwrite, PyTest, Java, Selenium, AWS, K8s, Test Rail, Report Portal, BrowserStack, and other tools.
  • Worked on popular techologies and solution for: AML, Global check, Biometric verification, e-mail and phone checks, control panel and platforms for customer support, e-commerce, and B2C platforms.
  • Supported development and maintenance of features and micro-services.
  • Monitored and supported infrastructure and services.

Certifications and Education

Kubernetes for Developers

Kubernetes for Developers

The Linux Foundation

Introduction to Kubernetes

Introduction to Kubernetes

The Linux Foundation

Murmansk Arctic State University

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science

Skills

⚙️ DevOps

DockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLabJenkinsTerraformHelmAnsiblePuppet

☁️ Cloud

AWSNginxTraefik

📊 Monitoring

PrometheusGrafana StackELK StackLokiZabbixAlertManager

💻 SDET

JavaSeleniumSelenideAppiumBrowserStackPostmanRestAssuredMoon

Projects

A compact terminal tool with modern UI (TUI) for managing GitLab CI/CD pipeline schedules.
Quickly list, create, edit, and remove scheduled pipelines across your GitLab projects.
GoGitLabCLITUIcronGitHub ActionsGoReleaserHomebrewMacOSLinux
glcron
Docker! Use context!

A terminal tool (CLI) tool to quickly switch between Docker contexts.
GoDockerDocker contextpromptCLIGoReleaserHomebrewMacOSLinux
dux

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