Aleksandr Letunov
DevSecOps & Platform Engineering Tech Lead · open to relocation · Moscow · UTC+3
a.b.letunov@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/aleksandr-letunov-89427314b · github.com/flyoverhead · flyoverhead.github.io
Summary
Platform engineering tech lead with four years in DevOps and platform engineering. Largest contributor across a 600-repository infrastructure estate, owning the internal developer platform end to end: ~20 reusable GitLab CI components, 100+ Ansible roles, Terraform modules and containerised CI execution environments. I build the platform other engineers ship on, and the Claude Code agents that help them do it.
Experience
DevOps Tech Lead · Positive TechnologiesMay 2025 – present
Lead a team of 4 engineers on IaC architecture and drive AI adoption in DevOps workflows.
- Designed and built a marketplace of Claude Code plugins for infrastructure work. Terraform module delivery went from weeks to days, Ansible roles from a week to a day.
- Architected and launched a fully managed Kubernetes service on OpenStack.
- Own deployment tooling for fast, predictable, zero-downtime releases under a "no manual toil" policy.
- Hiring, onboarding and mentoring, with explicit limits on team cognitive load. Cross-team work organised with Team Topologies.
DevOps Engineer · Positive TechnologiesNov 2023 – May 2025
Built the organisation's IaC platform from scratch and moved corporate services from monoliths to Kubernetes.
- Delivered a production-ready IaC platform within the probation period. It was adopted as the organisation's standard for service delivery.
- Built a catalog of reusable GitLab CI components and standard execution environments for Terraform, OpenTofu and Ansible.
- Integrated HashiCorp Vault for central secrets management with dynamic injection into CI, which removed hard-coded credentials.
- Set up a private Terraform registry and Ansible roles and collections across AWS, OpenStack and VMware.
- Ran the zero-downtime launch of a large, mission-critical DNS service on the new platform.
DevOps Team Lead · RusBITech-AstraApr 2023 – Oct 2023
Led and grew a unit of 8 engineers responsible for CI/CD, environments and infrastructure as code.
- Migrated mission-critical SCM and messaging services from monoliths to highly available Kubernetes.
- Built zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines and managed ephemeral and persistent staging, dev and stress environments.
- Modernised infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible and Puppet. Set technical roadmaps and owned the full hiring lifecycle.
Senior DevOps Engineer · RusBITech-AstraApr 2022 – Apr 2023
Automated the product lifecycle and ran core engineering services.
- Refactored 20+ legacy Ansible roles into modular collections.
- Re-architected the corporate SSO (Keycloak) from a monolith into a highly available cloud-native service.
- Designed and deployed a GitLab container service with fully automated configuration.
- Built monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana and Alertmanager. Migrated on-premises services to the cloud.
Before infrastructure 2009 – 2022
Product and project management, presales, five years in AML/CFT compliance, and two businesses of my own.
Skills
- Languages: Go, Python, Bash
- Platforms: Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS, VMware, Ceph, Linux, Windows
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform / OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer, Flux
- Delivery & security: GitLab CI, Vault, Prometheus / Grafana
Certifications
- Claude Academy: Claude 101
- Claude Academy: Claude Code 101
- Claude Academy: Claude Code in Action
- Claude Academy: AI Fluency: Framework and foundations
- Claude Academy: Introduction to Model Context Protocol
- Claude Academy: Model Context Protocol: Advanced topics
- Certificate in Business English — 93/100 (B2 Upper Intermediate)
Education
Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin — Economist, Economics, 2004 – 2009