Andelo
From Croatia (UTC+2)
Andelo – Python, DevOps, Kubernetes
Andelo is a senior DevOps and platform engineer with over 10 years of software engineering experience, having transitioned from full-stack development to infrastructure-focused roles. He has expertise in Kubernetes platform automation, Terraform, Helm, observability with Prometheus and Grafana, and cloud migrations, with hands-on experience across blockchain and financial infrastructure. His strengths include building reusable infrastructure, improving developer productivity, and integrating AI-assisted workflows. He communicates clearly and articulates his experience well, while also being able to provide additional technical detail and context when needed.
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Senior DevOps Engineer
An onchain credit engine providing uncollateralised, policy-based credit for asset issuers, card programmes, and solvers. The platform has facilitated over $500M in credit with zero shortfalls.
- Architected and implemented a multiplayer AI collaboration solution integrated with Slack, GitHub, and other tools, enabling teams to coordinate work through shared context and move faster across the organization.
- Built LLM alert triage on Centaur: Grafana alerts in Slack are triaged against metrics, logs, and source code, giving on-call a root-cause summary within minutes of the alert.
- Architected and operated production blockchain infrastructure for solver workloads, including self-hosted RPC nodes on bare-metal servers, blockchain indexers, observability, and deployment automation.
- Reduced third-party RPC and indexing costs by up to 90% by leveraging self-hosted infrastructure and open-source indexing solutions.
- Implemented OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki for node health, indexing performance, logs, metrics, tracing, and incident visibility.
- Managed blockchain wallet keys and runtime secrets with HashiCorp Vault and operated the MPC node set for transaction signing, improving key handling, access control, and operational security.
- Built self-service CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners for managing solver workloads, with least-privilege server access and signed container images verified on the nodes, keeping deployments secure and auditable.
Platform Engineer
A global cryptocurrency exchange offering accessible trading for retail users and advanced capabilities for professional and institutional clients. The platform supports high-volume digital asset trading, institutional lending, staking, and multi-asset perpetual futures across a globally regulated infrastructure.
- Developed the infrastructure-as-code framework for a crypto exchange processing $1B+ in daily volume, adopted by 10 teams and 150 engineers, enabling faster infrastructure development and provisioning.
- Led migration from Amazon EC2 to Amazon ECS and designed the multi-AWS-account setup with tightly scoped IAM roles, so teams deployed and managed their own workloads without SysOps intervention.
- Migrated microservices to the new platform without downtime, improving deployment speed by 2x, and introduced per-PR preview environments that spin up full infrastructure, run the integration test suite, and tear down afterwards.
- Implemented an event-driven architecture on Kafka; automated Kafka ACL deployment, reducing manual intervention by 90% and configuration errors by 95%.
- Implemented passwordless microservice authentication and authorization based on AWS IAM and STS, with Go and CDKTF, removing static secrets between services.
- Built an internal RAG platform over company documentation on self-hosted LLMs with Ollama, keeping all data on internal infrastructure, with SSO login and layered roles and permissions; used by 500 people across the company.
CTO
A quality and release intelligence platform that helps development teams assess whether software is safe to ship. It combines bug reporting, crash reporting, and release health monitoring for mobile and web applications.
- Oversaw all decisions regarding the development of the product;
- Owned the technology and product roadmap, introducing new technologies, processes, and tools;
- Led the transformation of the product from only a bug reporting tool to multiple independent products, such as crash reporting and live chat;
- Designed and implemented cloud architecture for live chat with thousands of connected clients;
- Led the process of rewriting the old Angular-based dashboard to a React dashboard;
- Handled developer recruitment and evaluation.
Full Stack Engineer
A quality and release intelligence platform that helps development teams assess whether software is safe to ship. It combines bug reporting, crash reporting, and release health monitoring for mobile and web applications.
- Developed the web-facing stack of a SaaS bug reporting tool for mobile apps;
- Developed the web dashboard for the product;
- Implemented OAuth2 authentication with Google sign-in integration;
- Integrated APIs with third-party services;
- Implemented complex full-text search;
- Implemented complex billing using Stripe;
- Took care of deployments, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and the whole cloud infrastructure.
Software Engineer
A software development agency delivering custom digital solutions for clients across different industries. The agency supports product development from initial concept through implementation and ongoing improvement, helping businesses address technical and operational needs.
- Built a back-office dashboard using Laravel, MySQL, and Vue.js;
- Developed a dashboard for data collected from customers inside retail stores;
- Used Google Maps to mark different sections on store floor plans and implemented heatmaps of customer movement inside the store;
- Developed a customer loyalty program for retail stores with multiple parameters;
- Developed a system for notifying customers about available product discounts while moving inside the store;
- Built a data processing system that handled thousands of requests per second using Django, Redis, and MySQL;
- Used Cisco CMX as a data stream;
- Implemented processing of data from Cisco CMX and saved processed data in the database;
- Built a back-office for an agency photographing events and selling those photos;
- Developed a complex authentication and authorization system with multiple permissions and roles;
- Developed a blog system on top of Laravel;
- Developed multiple categories of data entry in the back-office while attaching images to each of them;
- Developed a shopping cart with PayPal Express Checkout.