{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Ivan Kornienko",
    "label": "Senior DevSecOps & Cloud Solutions Architect",
    "image": "",
    "email": "ivan@korn.systems",
    "phone": "+380(95)434-95-08",
    "url": "https://korn.systems",
    "summary": "Senior Cloud Infrastructure Consultant with 20+ years in IT, including 14 years contracting for top US/EU companies. Expert in Cloud Solutions Architecture (GCP, AWS), automated CI/CD/Sec pipelines, high-scale Kubernetes management, GitOps, MLOps, and AI Reliability (scaling LLM workloads, Karpenter, cost optimization). Contributor to Google Cloud Foundation Toolkit.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Obukhiv",
      "region": "Kyiv Region",
      "countryCode": "UA",
      "postalCode": "08700"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "ivankornienko",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivankornienko"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "ivankorn",
        "url": "https://github.com/ivankorn"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "korn.systems",
      "position": "Creator / AI Architect",
      "url": "https://korn.systems",
      "startDate": "2024-01",
      "endDate": "",
      "summary": "Development of an advanced AI assistant and foundational infrastructure modules.",
      "highlights": [
        "Architected and developed the korn.systems AI assistant integration.",
        "Built and open-sourced terraform-spaceship-github-pages module for automated GitHub Pages and DNS management.",
        "Developed, automated deployment, and open-sourced the korn.systems portfolio website."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "METRO Digital",
      "position": "Site Reliability Engineer / Cloud Consultant",
      "url": "https://metro.digital",
      "startDate": "2021-09",
      "endDate": "2025-12",
      "summary": "Comprehensive cloud transformation, multi-cluster GCP migrations, and GitOps implementations across 500+ microservices.",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed and executed the complete GCP migration path for hundreds of microservices, including a critical NoSQL database SaaS migration.",
        "Replaced internal CD tools with ArgoCD using the app-of-apps pattern for highly scalable deployments.",
        "Implemented secure Gateway API and GCP Private Service Connect (PSC), successfully replacing legacy HAProxy load balancers.",
        "Migrated secrets to GCP Secret Manager, fully automated using Jenkins, Terraform, and SOPS.",
        "Configured dynamic Jenkins pipelines with automatic repository discovery and dynamic configuration.",
        "Developed reusable Terraform modules, structured Helm charts, and Kustomize templates for optimal Kubernetes multi-cluster management."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Voyc AI",
      "position": "Cloud Engineer (Contractor)",
      "url": "https://voyc.ai",
      "startDate": "2025-05",
      "endDate": "2025-06",
      "summary": "AI-powered compliance monitoring AWS cloud design and automation.",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed highly available and cost-efficient AWS Cloud Architecture.",
        "Automated infrastructure provisioning using OpenTofu, Terraform, and Terragrunt.",
        "Implemented Karpenter for AWS EKS to achieve dynamic, cost-optimized scaling of Kubernetes nodes for AI workloads."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Elsewhen Ltd",
      "position": "Engineering Consultant",
      "url": "https://elsewhen.com",
      "startDate": "2021-07",
      "endDate": "2021-09",
      "summary": "ETL pipeline implementation and IaC design for an advertisement firm.",
      "highlights": [
        "Redesigned Cloud Architecture with a 5-layer system decomposition using Terraform.",
        "Developed Python ETL pipelines for Google Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow), migrating from Airflow 1 to Airflow 2.",
        "Provisioned Dataflow, DataCatalog, BigQuery, and Cloud Functions for the data stack."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "American Robotics Corp",
      "position": "DevOps Consultant",
      "startDate": "2021-02",
      "endDate": "2021-08",
      "summary": "Planned and drove comprehensive DevOps transformation.",
      "highlights": [
        "Provisioned AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt (EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda).",
        "Implemented Jenkins and GitLab CI pipelines alongside ArgoCD for Kubernetes deployments."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "American Broadcaster / Media Company",
      "position": "DevOps Technical Lead",
      "startDate": "2020-02",
      "endDate": "2021-02",
      "summary": "Managed DevOps scope and IAM organization for a Next Gen TV Platform.",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed a hybrid cloud architecture deploying GCP GKE and AWS EKS.",
        "Configured Confluent Kafka Connections through VPC peering, Redis, and Apigee API Gateway.",
        "Implemented Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and Splunk Dashboards with Alerts."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SDLC Accelerator & Smart City Platform",
      "position": "Lead Infrastructure Engineer",
      "startDate": "2019-08",
      "endDate": "2020-01",
      "summary": "Bare-Metal SDLC and Kyiv Smart City infrastructure setup.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built a Bare-Metal/Public Cloud Hybrid SDLC accelerator platform with Kubernetes/K3S and ArgoCD.",
        "Designed and implemented the cloud infrastructure for Kyiv's Intelligent Traffic Management System (Green Wave) using GKE and Cloud Functions."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "DevOps Training Lead & Mentor",
      "position": "Lector / Training Lead",
      "startDate": "2017-09",
      "endDate": "2019-05",
      "summary": "Directed Resource Development Centers in Poland and Ukraine.",
      "highlights": [
        "Wrote syllabus and coached trainee systems engineers in Linux, networking, python, and cloud architecture.",
        "Mentored trainee engineers, achieving a 5/5 score for lectures on DevOps and IaC."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "US On-Site Cloud Consulting",
      "position": "Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer",
      "startDate": "2018-04",
      "endDate": "2018-12",
      "summary": "Delivered on-site CI/CD solutions in California and Connecticut.",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed advanced CI/CD solutions in Connecticut for a major American Investment Management firm.",
        "Maintained multi-node Hybris and Apache e-commerce clusters in California."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "American Multi-Level Marketing Company",
      "position": "Lead Infrastructure Engineer",
      "startDate": "2017-02",
      "endDate": "2017-09",
      "summary": "E-commerce platform and sub-services development.",
      "highlights": [
        "Drove migration to Kubernetes, architecting Helm charts and Ansible roles for a massive e-commerce deployment."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Worldwide Express Logistic Company",
      "position": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
      "startDate": "2016-11",
      "endDate": "2017-02",
      "summary": "Developing front-end solution to replace about 13 legacy systems.",
      "highlights": [
        "Engineered continuous delivery pipelines and optimized infrastructure for the new unified front-end solution."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Major Retail Brand",
      "position": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
      "startDate": "2015-09",
      "endDate": "2016-04",
      "summary": "Rolling out an E-commerce platform.",
      "highlights": [
        "Responsible for architecture design, developing, testing, and full system engineering efforts for the global rollout."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' (IASA)",
      "url": "https://kpi.ua",
      "area": "Computer Science (Computer Systems Engineering)",
      "studyType": "Master",
      "startDate": "2008",
      "endDate": "2010",
      "gpa": "",
      "courses": []
    },
    {
      "institution": "National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' (IASA)",
      "url": "https://kpi.ua",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelor",
      "startDate": "2004",
      "endDate": "2008",
      "gpa": "",
      "courses": []
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Cloud Providers",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "Google Cloud Platform (GCP)",
        "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
        "Azure",
        "Hybrid Clouds"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Infrastructure as Code",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "Terraform",
        "OpenTofu",
        "Terragrunt",
        "Ansible",
        "Chef",
        "Helm"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Containerization & Orchestration",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "Kubernetes",
        "GKE",
        "EKS",
        "AKS",
        "Docker",
        "ArgoCD",
        "Gateway API"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "CI/CD & DevSecOps",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "GitHub Actions",
        "GitLab CI",
        "Jenkins",
        "Azure DevOps",
        "Secret Manager",
        "SOPS",
        "Trivy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "MLOps & AI Reliability",
      "level": "Senior",
      "keywords": [
        "Karpenter",
        "GPU Scaling",
        "Inference Scaling",
        "LLM Infrastructure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Languages",
      "level": "Senior",
      "keywords": ["Python", "Groovy", "Bash", "Golang", "HCL2"]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Professional working proficiency"
    },
    {
      "language": "Ukrainian",
      "fluency": "Native"
    },
    {
      "language": "Russian",
      "fluency": "Native"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Technology",
      "keywords": [
        "Artificial Intelligence",
        "Linux",
        "Programming",
        "Edge Computing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hobbies",
      "keywords": [
        "Science-fiction",
        "Literature",
        "Documentaries",
        "Art",
        "Flowers"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "korn.systems Website",
      "meta": ["Owner & Author", "Portfolio Codebase"],
      "description": "Development, automated deployment, and open-sourcing of the personal portfolio website and AI assistant platform.",
      "url": "https://github.com/ivankorn/korn.systems",
      "tags": ["HTML/CSS/JS", "GitHub Actions", "Playwright"],
      "hasGitHubLink": false
    },
    {
      "name": "terraform-spaceship-github-pages",
      "meta": ["Owner & Author", "Terraform Registry"],
      "description": "Owned and authored Terraform module for automated GitHub Pages and Spaceship DNS configuration.",
      "url": "https://registry.terraform.io/modules/ivankorn/github-pages/spaceship/latest",
      "tags": ["Terraform", "Spaceship", "GitHub Pages"],
      "hasGitHubLink": false
    },
    {
      "name": "terraform-skill",
      "meta": ["Contributor", "AI Coding Agents"],
      "description": "Contributed to the open-source terraform-skill plugin for AI coding agents.",
      "url": "https://github.com/antonbabenko/terraform-skill",
      "tags": ["AI Agents", "Terraform", "LLM"],
      "hasGitHubLink": true
    },
    {
      "name": "agent-plugins",
      "meta": ["Contributor", "AI Coding Agents"],
      "description": "Contributed to the open-source agent-plugins repository (specifically the code-intelligence skill) for AI coding agents.",
      "url": "https://github.com/antonbabenko/agent-plugins/tree/master",
      "tags": ["AI Agents", "LSP", "LLM"],
      "hasGitHubLink": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Cloud Foundation Toolkit",
      "meta": ["Google CFT", "Open Source"],
      "description": "Contributed official Deployment Manager templates, tools, and automation scripts for Google Cloud.",
      "url": "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-foundation-toolkit",
      "tags": ["Google Org", "Automation"],
      "hasGitHubLink": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Terraform Google Modules",
      "meta": ["Google CFT", "Open Source"],
      "description": "Contributed official Terraform modules, tests, and automation builds for Google Cloud.",
      "url": "https://github.com/terraform-google-modules",
      "tags": ["Terraform Modules", "Go Tests"],
      "hasGitHubLink": true
    }
  ],
  "caseStudies": [
    {
      "meta": ["METRO Digital", "GCP / NoSQL"],
      "name": "GCP & NoSQL Database Migration",
      "summary": "Planned and executed the migration of a fleet of nearly a hundred microservices into GCP, and successfully migrated a critical NoSQL database to another SaaS vendor.",
      "tags": ["GCP", "Kustomize", "NoSQL"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["METRO Digital", "GitOps / K8s"],
      "name": "GitOps & ArgoCD Migration",
      "summary": "Replaced internal CD tools with ArgoCD, establishing an app-of-apps pattern to manage and deploy over 100+ microservices efficiently.",
      "tags": ["ArgoCD", "GitOps", "Terraform"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["METRO Digital", "Networking"],
      "name": "Web Routing Architecture",
      "summary": "Modernized web routing by replacing legacy HAProxy load balancers with secure Gateway API and GCP Private Service Connect (PSC).",
      "tags": ["Gateway API", "GCP PSC", "Networking"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["METRO Digital", "Security"],
      "name": "Enterprise Secrets Management",
      "summary": "Migrated secrets to GCP Secret Manager, completely automating encryption and secure delivery pipelines using Jenkins, Terraform, and SOPS.",
      "tags": ["Secret Manager", "SOPS", "Security"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["METRO Digital", "CI/CD Automation"],
      "name": "Dynamic CI Pipelines & Helm",
      "summary": "Configured dynamic Jenkins pipelines featuring automatic repository discovery, and built fully automated Helm charts for multi-cluster CI/CD.",
      "tags": ["Jenkins", "Helm", "CI/CD"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["Voyc AI", "AWS / EKS"],
      "name": "AI-Powered Scaling Architecture",
      "summary": "Designed and provisioned AWS cloud architecture for AI-powered compliance monitoring. Automated complete infrastructure using OpenTofu and Karpenter.",
      "tags": ["OpenTofu", "Karpenter", "GPU Instances"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["Consulting", "GCP / Python"],
      "name": "Cloud Architecture & ETL",
      "summary": "Redesigned Cloud Architecture with a 5-layer infrastructure decomposition using Terraform. Developed an ETL pipeline in Python for Google Cloud Composer.",
      "tags": ["Apache Airflow", "ETL", "BigQuery"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["American Robotics", "AWS / Jenkins"],
      "name": "DevOps Transformation",
      "summary": "Planned and drove a comprehensive DevOps transformation for an American Robotics Corp, provisioning AWS infrastructure and implementing Jenkins/GitLab pipelines.",
      "tags": ["AWS EKS", "Terragrunt", "ArgoCD"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["Media Company", "Hybrid Cloud"],
      "name": "Next Gen TV Platform",
      "summary": "Managed DevOps scope for a major US media company, designing a hybrid cloud architecture spanning GCP GKE and AWS EKS with Kafka integration.",
      "tags": ["Hybrid Cloud", "Azure DevOps", "Kafka"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["Smart City", "GCP / GKE"],
      "name": "Intelligent Traffic Platform",
      "summary": "Designed and implemented the cloud infrastructure for Kyiv's Intelligent Traffic Management System (Green Wave), utilizing GKE and Cloud Functions.",
      "tags": ["Smart City", "GKE", "IoT"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["E-Commerce", "K8s / Ansible"],
      "name": "Platform Migration & Architecture",
      "summary": "Led the infrastructure engineering and Kubernetes migration for a major multi-level marketing company, architecting Helm charts and Ansible roles.",
      "tags": ["Kubernetes", "Ansible", "Helm"]
    },
    {
      "meta": ["Global Logistics", "CI/CD"],
      "name": "Legacy Systems Modernization",
      "summary": "Engineered continuous delivery pipelines and optimized infrastructure for a unified front-end solution replacing 13 legacy systems for a logistics giant.",
      "tags": ["CI/CD", "Modernization", "Microservices"]
    }
  ]
}