Hi, I'm

Alexander Samay

DevOps / Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Building secure, reliable AWS delivery platforms with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, observability, and practical AI-assisted engineering.

CKA CKAD AWS Solutions Architect AWS CloudOps Engineer Terraform Associate
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01.About Me

Platform / DevOps engineer based in Boston, MA with 5+ years building and operating cloud-native delivery platforms on AWS.

I run 15+ EKS clusters and 20+ microservices with self-service CI/CD and GitOps used by 30+ engineers, cutting release cycles from days to hours.

My work spans reusable infrastructure, Kubernetes reliability, observability, and security, with practical AI-assisted engineering using Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and MCP-based automation to accelerate delivery and reduce operational toil.

KubernetesTerraformGitOps ObservabilitySecurityAI-Assisted Engineering
alexander@infra ~ /about
$ whoami
alexander-samay
$ cat role.txt
DevOps / Platform Engineer / SRE
$ location
Boston, MA
$ focus --list
→ self-service platforms
→ reliability & observability
→ AI-assisted delivery
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02.Skills & Tools

alexander@infra ~ /skills
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☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Karpenter
  • Rancher
  • Istio
  • Velero

🔄 CI/CD & GitOps

  • GitHub Actions
  • FluxCD
  • ArgoCD
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI

📊 Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Alertmanager
  • OpenTelemetry
  • EFK Stack
  • CloudWatch
  • Datadog
  • Thanos

🔒 Security

  • Teleport
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • IAM
  • VPC Security
  • mTLS
  • Kyverno
  • SealedSecrets
  • Audit Logging

🗄️ Data & Messaging

  • Apache Kafka
  • Amazon Kinesis
  • PgBouncer
  • RDS
  • Aurora
  • DocumentDB
  • DynamoDB

🤖 AI & Dev Tools

  • Claude
  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Cursor
  • MCP
  • AI Agents
  • Prompt Engineering

03.Experience

Akamai Technologies
— Present
Cambridge, MA
Current

Platform / DevOps Engineer

  • Operated a cloud-native platform of 15+ AWS EKS clusters and 20+ microservices, enabling self-service delivery for 30+ engineers and cutting release cycles from days to hours.
  • Built reusable Terraform patterns for AWS infrastructure and serverless workloads across networking, compute, APIs, data services, and identity.
  • Standardized CI/CD and GitOps across dev, staging, and prod with GitHub Actions, Helm, ArgoCD, FluxCD, and Kustomize.
  • Supported business-critical Tier-0 services through incident response and root-cause analysis; automated operational workflows with Python, TypeScript, Java, SQS, and RabbitMQ.
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Serverless
  • Event-driven
  • Observability
iRobot
—
Bedford, MA

DevOps Engineer

  • Automated cross-team delivery across robotics, cloud, mobile, and machine-learning teams, reducing customer release time by ~50%.
  • Maintained Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Artifactory platforms and integrations, improving delivery consistency and reliability across engineering teams.
  • Built infrastructure and deployment automation for an internal web platform providing shared testing resources across the organization.
  • Jenkins
  • Bitbucket
  • Artifactory
  • AWS
  • Linux
  • Automation

04.Education

Clark University
M.S. in Professional Communication (MSPC)
2017 — 2019 · GPA 3.82
South Ural State University (SUSU)
Master's degree · Information Technology Project Management
2016 — 2017

05.Certifications

CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation · CNCF
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CKAD — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux Foundation · CNCF
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate
Amazon Web Services
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HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
HashiCorp
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AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
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06.Get in Touch

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