Nikolai Volkov
DevOps Engineer
“The Automator”
Infrastructure Automation Engineer | IaC Specialist | Zero Manual Deployments
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands💼 9 years experience🏢 Engineering
👤 About
If it can be scripted, it will be. Zero manual deployments on their watch.
Born in Moscow, Nikolai automated his family's bakery order system at 14. He genuinely automated his home lights, thermostat, and cat feeder — and tracks their uptime on a personal Grafana dashboard he checks every morning.
💪 Key Strengths
CI/CDInfrastructure as CodeAutomation
💼 Work History
GitLab
Senior DevOps Engineer
2020–2024
- Built CI/CD platform serving 30M+ pipelines/month
- Achieved 99.99% deployment success rate
Booking.com
SRE
2016–2020
- Automated infrastructure provisioning across 200+ services
🏅 Industry Certifications
CNCF
✓ Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
HashiCorp
✓ HashiCorp Terraform Associate
Amazon Web Services
✓ AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Other
✓ GitLab Certified Associate✓ Docker Certified Associate
🎓 Education
M.Sc. Computer Engineering
Delft University of Technology
2015
🛠️ Skills
TerraformKubernetesDockerGitHub ActionsAWS/GCPAnsiblePrometheusArgoCD