Dmytro Ivanov
12 years in IT (since 2014): started in help desk and IT support, moved through Linux system administration, and have been doing infrastructure automation and DevOps for 5 years, with AWS in production for the last 4 and a DevSecOps focus for the last 2. I'm looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer & AWS Marketplace Specialist role, or a team lead position. On my most recent project I led infrastructure and production security for a SaaS product on AWS: Terraform-managed ECS Fargate, AWS-native controls (Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF), and Foundational Technical Review readiness. I also designed the architecture and guided the dev team on how to meet FTR and Well-Architected requirements, and translated the technical reality into realistic plans and timelines for non-technical leadership. For me DevOps isn't just engineering. It's the practices, tools and culture that bring development, operations and security together.
How I work
I work well in a team, and on my own when the job needs it. I respect the chain of command: I join a team to help when asked, not to take anyone's seat. My ambition goes into side work: articles on DOU and Tanks 2026, a pet-project game I build in my spare time.
What I'm looking for: A full-time, in-house role at a product company. I want a long-term fit, not a stepping stone.
Links
Shipped
Regulatory Readiness Platform · AWS Marketplace FDA submission-readiness SaaS for medical device makers. My part: the AWS infrastructure, production security and the Foundational Technical Review, guiding the dev team through its requirements. Bookstack Wiki · AWS Marketplace Self-hosted BookStack wiki, packaged for a one-click CloudFormation deploy in ~15 minutes. Built and listed end-to-end. Photo Kiosk Backend · AWS Marketplace One-click secure backend for photo kiosks on AWS: architecture, application and backend, all mine.Certifications
Writing & interviews
Featured
$6 Billion Through One Laptop: How to Turn Your System Into Quicksand · Hillel IT School Why one compromised laptop shouldn't be enough to drain $6.3 billion from Binance. My answer is a defense I call quicksand: a trust budget per session, a silent swap to a mirror, slowdowns and planted markers, checked against the six AWS Well-Architected pillars (UA). How I spent eighteen months writing a comic about AWS CloudFormation · DOU A comic that explains AWS CloudFormation in plain words, with pseudocode in the examples, in the spirit of Head First Java. Eighteen months on and off, and the theory part is done (UA). AWS through a comic? A DevOps engineer's unusual project · YouTube, Hillel IT School Hillel IT School invited me for an interview after my DOU article about the CloudFormation comic. We talk about moving from system administration into DevOps, the comic itself, job interviews, and whether AI will replace engineers (UA, 54 min).7 more: translations and earlier articles
Security & architecture
$6 Billion Through One Laptop: How to Turn Your System Into Quicksand · LinkedIn The same article in English, my own translation, with a November 3 update after Binance's preliminary incident report.Learning DevOps
DevOps Level-Up: Unconventional Resources for Learning · Hillel IT School Written for the Hillel IT School blog at their request: games, hands-on labs, comics and a novel for people who learn by breaking things or seeing them drawn, from OverTheWire Bandit and SadServers to The Phoenix Project (UA). DevOps Level-Up: Unconventional Resources for Learning · LinkedIn The same article in English, my own translation.AI in engineering
How we built infrastructure from scratch with Cursor AI · DOU best of the month How we built a full cloud infrastructure in 3.5 hours with Cursor AI instead of the estimated two months. Featured on DOU (UA). We thought it'd take months. Cursor AI did it in hours · LinkedIn The same story for an English audience: shipping fast with Cursor AI, and where the human judgment still matters.Pet project: Tanks 2026
Updates to my game Tanks 2026 before its Steam release · DOU What changed before the Steam release: pixel and HD looks, and voice commands through the DualSense mic. Behind the scenes, CI runs 1,171 tests on every PR and builds for macOS and Windows from one version tag (UA). I vibe-coded the tank game from my childhood in Java 21 and Swing: DualSense, two-player mode and anti-power-ups · DOU A childhood tank game rebuilt from scratch in Java 21 and Swing, no game engine: two-player mode, a DualSense with rumble, and anti-power-ups like a raven that steals your bonus (UA).AI-Assisted Workflow
AI is part of my engineering toolchain: Claude Code and Cursor run on a curated set of custom skills, rules, subagents and guard hooks that encode my working standards.
- Custom skills for Terraform, AWS and CI/CD standards
- Subagents: verification, security review, changelog upkeep
- Git guard hooks that block risky operations
- Secret scanning (gitleaks) wired into CI
- PR reviews in Conventional Comments style
- Tiered documentation: human / reference / AI-context
- A proofreading skill that flags AI-sounding copy