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nikita
bolotov_

staff backend engineer / platform engineer · betterme

Engineer with a PHP background (Symfony, Laravel, Yii) who evolved into Platform Engineering and Go. I build and maintain centralised CI/CD platforms, manage Kubernetes via Helm and Istio, and work on supply-chain security and compliance. Active speaker — most recent talk: "Observability as Code".

subjectnikita bolotov
classstaff · platform
nodekyiv, ukraine · hybrid
cycle8.0 yr in service
statusheads-down · not on the market

who i am

I'm a backend engineer turned platform engineer — started in PHP (Symfony, Laravel, Yii) building services, then got pulled into the systems that run them.

These days I'm focused on the unglamorous craft of keeping deploys boring: centralised CI/CD on GitHub Actions, Helm and Istio in production, and the supply-chain and compliance work that's getting harder to ignore.

I write about it on this site and occasionally talk about it in person — most recent talk was "Observability as Code" at a backend meetup.

Open to talks, collaboration, and coffee.

tech stack

Languages 01
PHPGoTypeScriptBash
Frameworks 02
SymfonyLaravelYiiMagento
CI/CD 03
GitHub ActionsReusable WorkflowsSLSAOIDC/ABAC
Infrastructure 04
KubernetesIstioHelmDockerTerraform
Cloud & Security 05
AWSContainer ScanningSecrets MgmtISO 27001
Observability 06
Elastic APMDORAPlantUMLConfluence

focus areas

/01Supply Chain Security /02DORA Metrics /03AI-assisted Tooling /04GitOps & Helm /05Compliance /06Developer Experience /07Container Security /08Service Mesh /09Tech Talks & Meetups

languages

UK
Ukrainian
native
EN
English
professional working
PL
Polish
limited working

hobbies

/01Cars /02Gaming