01 Impact
Infrastructure that lets AI products grow fast without breaking.
$6M
ARR reached in 11 months on infrastructure I scaled from zero for a Generative AI product.
4→25
engineers: I built and led Backend, Frontend, QA, DevOps and MLOps teams.
SOC 2
Type II completed and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified at Acclaim AI.
13+ yrs
from systems administration to running infrastructure for AI products.
02 Experience
Jul 2025 — Now
Remote
Remote
Head of Infrastructure
Acclaim AI · Voice-first AI platform
Kubernetes infrastructure across GCP and on-prem, including GPU inference. Led the company through SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001.
Apr 2023 — Jun 2025
Remote
Remote
Head of Engineering · Head of Infrastructure
Brask · Rask AI
Scaled the engineering team from 4 to 25 people and the platform to $6M ARR in 11 months. Drove SOC 2 readiness, observability and cost optimization.
Dec 2020 — May 2023
Automation DevOps Team Lead
Arenadata
Delivery and observability tooling for an enterprise open-source data platform.
Apr 2015 — Dec 2020
Automation DevOps Engineer
Sharx Datacenter
Automated deployments and hardware provisioning with Ansible, and ran Linux virtualization.
Nov 2012 — Apr 2015
Senior Systems Administrator
Yellow, Black and White
03 Toolbox
Platform
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- AWS
- On-prem
- GPU inference
- Microservices
Delivery
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CI/CD
- GitOps
- Python
- IaC
Reliability & Security
- SRE
- Observability
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- Cost optimization
04 Education
Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyMSc, Computer Science · 2010 – 2012
Southern Federal UniversityBSc, Computer Science · 2006 – 2010