Oleg Chunikhin

Design and deliver a telemetry data lake to ingest, store, and analyze data from physical datacenters for a company that designs, builds, and operates next-gen AI digital infrastructure and cloud services.

Ingestion & processing: Batch/stream pipelines using Spark and Iomete to normalize and prepare telemetry for analytics.

Platform & orchestration: On-prem Kubernetes managed with Kublr for scalable, portable compute; GitHub Actions for CI/CD of data pipelines and platform… Show more

Design and deliver a telemetry data lake to ingest, store, and analyze data from physical datacenters for a company that designs, builds, and operates next-gen AI digital infrastructure and cloud services.

Ingestion & processing: Batch/stream pipelines using Spark and Iomete to normalize and prepare telemetry for analytics.

Platform & orchestration: On-prem Kubernetes managed with Kublr for scalable, portable compute; GitHub Actions for CI/CD of data pipelines and platform components.

Storage layer: MinIO (S3-compatible) object storage for durable, cost-efficient data lake storage and lifecycle management.

Outcomes: Unified telemetry foundation enabling cross-datacenter visibility, faster analysis, and reusable data products. Show less

Led the platform team building and operating an on-premises Kubernetes estate for development & QA for a European cybersecurity company.

Core stack: Proxmox VE for virtualization; Kubernetes with Ceph for cloud-native storage.

Observability: Centralized logging via ELK (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana); metrics with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, aggregating telemetry for analysis and alerting.

Identity & access: Federated SSO/RBAC using Keycloak for consistent access control… Show more

Led the platform team building and operating an on-premises Kubernetes estate for development & QA for a European cybersecurity company.

Core stack: Proxmox VE for virtualization; Kubernetes with Ceph for cloud-native storage.

Observability: Centralized logging via ELK (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana); metrics with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, aggregating telemetry for analysis and alerting.

Identity & access: Federated SSO/RBAC using Keycloak for consistent access control across clusters.

Delivery workflow: Argo CD (GitOps) for declarative deployments and Jenkins for CI, enabling repeatable, template-driven releases.

Compute & ML: NVIDIA CUDA GPU enablement on Kubernetes and Kubeflow for ML/AI pipelines.

Ownership: Cluster lifecycle, day-2 operations, and platform reliability in a security-sensitive environment. Show less

Led the platform team helping build and operate a multi-region, multi-cluster Kubernetes estate across Azure and AWS, covering development, staging, QA, and production for a large healthcare IoT company.

Observability at scale: Centralized logging with ELK (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) and metrics with Prometheus, aggregating telemetry for analysis and alerting.

Identity & access: Federated SSO/RBAC via Keycloak and Okta, standardizing access across clusters and… Show more

Led the platform team helping build and operate a multi-region, multi-cluster Kubernetes estate across Azure and AWS, covering development, staging, QA, and production for a large healthcare IoT company.

Observability at scale: Centralized logging with ELK (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) and metrics with Prometheus, aggregating telemetry for analysis and alerting.

Identity & access: Federated SSO/RBAC via Keycloak and Okta, standardizing access across clusters and environments.

App delivery: Deployed complex services and shared components (e.g., Kafka via Strimzi Operator, Istio service mesh, Zipkin, Jaeger etc) using Argo CD (GitOps) and Jenkins for CI with templated, repeatable release workflows.

Edge & security: Managed client traffic with AWS WAF, AWS ALB, NGINX Ingress Controller, and cert-manager + Let’s Encrypt for automated TLS.

Reliability & scale: Owned day-2 operations - upgrades, capacity planning, incident response, and cost/efficiency tuning - for a multi-tenant platform serving regulated customers. Show less

Led the platform team helping build and operate a multi-region, multi-cluster Kubernetes platform on AWS for a large fintech. The estate spans development, staging, QA, and production across multiple AWS regions; the largest clusters run ~100 worker nodes and serve 70+ B2B customers (banks and financial institutions).

Observability at scale: Centralized logging with the ELK stack (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) and metrics with Prometheus, ingesting dozens of terabytes of telemetry for… Show more

Led the platform team helping build and operate a multi-region, multi-cluster Kubernetes platform on AWS for a large fintech. The estate spans development, staging, QA, and production across multiple AWS regions; the largest clusters run ~100 worker nodes and serve 70+ B2B customers (banks and financial institutions).

Observability at scale: Centralized logging with the ELK stack (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) and metrics with Prometheus, ingesting dozens of terabytes of telemetry for analysis and alerting.

Identity & access: Federated SSO/RBAC via Keycloak, standardizing access across clusters and environments.

App delivery: Deployment of complex Java business services to Kubernetes using Argo CD (GitOps) and Jenkins for CI, with templated, repeatable release workflows.

Edge & security: Managed client traffic with AWS WAF, AWS ALB, NGINX Ingress Controller, and cert-manager + Let’s Encrypt for automated TLS.

Reliability & scale: day-2 operations - upgrades, capacity planning, incident response, and cost/efficiency tuning - for a multi-tenant platform used by regulated customers. Show less

CTO & Lead Architect for Kublr Kubernetes Management Platform.
Owned technical vision, architecture, and delivery for Kublr, an enterprise platform that provides private Kubernetes-as-a-Service across clouds and on-prem. In production since 2017, used for mission-critical workloads in regulated sectors (finance, healthcare), helping customers run dozens of clusters and hundreds of nodes with measurable ops cost reductions.

Multi-cloud control plane: Unified cluster lifecycle via API &… Show more

CTO & Lead Architect for Kublr Kubernetes Management Platform.
Owned technical vision, architecture, and delivery for Kublr, an enterprise platform that provides private Kubernetes-as-a-Service across clouds and on-prem. In production since 2017, used for mission-critical workloads in regulated sectors (finance, healthcare), helping customers run dozens of clusters and hundreds of nodes with measurable ops cost reductions.

Multi-cloud control plane: Unified cluster lifecycle via API & UI across AWS, Azure, GCP, vSphere, vCloud Director, plus on-prem / BYOI.

Day-2 operations out of the box: Automated centralized logging, monitoring, security hardening, identity management and SSO, upgrades/patching, and standardized release workflows.

Enterprise identity & access: Built-in SSO/RBAC integrations (SAML, OIDC, LDAP/AD) for consistent access across environments.

Reliability & scale: Designed for high availability and policy-driven operations to support regulated, mission-critical workloads.

Tech stack & leadership: Implemented in Go and TypeScript, integrating key open-source components; led the engineering strategy and hands-on development. Show less

Design and implement a white-labeled SaaS that streamlines claims payouts, money transfers, and related financial workflows - reducing risk, lowering operating costs, and enabling seamless B2B transactions.

Architecture: Microservices on Kubernetes with an Istio service mesh, deployed across multiple Azure regions for high availability and automated failover.

Standards & interoperability: ISO 20022–aligned messaging and an extensible provider model to integrate third-party… Show more

Design and implement a white-labeled SaaS that streamlines claims payouts, money transfers, and related financial workflows - reducing risk, lowering operating costs, and enabling seamless B2B transactions.

Architecture: Microservices on Kubernetes with an Istio service mesh, deployed across multiple Azure regions for high availability and automated failover.

Standards & interoperability: ISO 20022–aligned messaging and an extensible provider model to integrate third-party services, payment systems, banks, and merchants.

APIs & integration: Public Merchant API plus internal adapters to onboard new providers with minimal code changes.

Identity & security: Built-in identity verification mechanisms to strengthen onboarding and transaction safety.

Outcomes: A scalable, resilient platform that accelerates time-to-market for partners while standardizing core financial operations. Show less

Paranormal Activity: Sanctuary is a location based, massively multiplayer, augmented reality game set in the real world.
I participated in the project as a technical lead and developer of the server development team.

NBA: King of the Court is a Location-based, Augmented Reality game for both iPhone and Android smart phones.
I participated in this project as a technical lead and developer for server and BI development team.