Sergey Volkov

About Me

I’m a DevOps Engineer based in the Greater Chicago area. I build and improve cloud infrastructure with a focus on automation, reliability, and simple, effective solutions that make deployments faster and systems more stable, using AI-assisted workflows to speed up development, deployment, and troubleshooting.

I independently built and launched two SaaS applications: MilesPay, helping independent truck drivers track expenses and profitability, and FeedFunds, simplifying income tracking, expense management, receipt storage, and invoicing for self-employed professionals.

Before moving into DevOps, I spent many years in logistics and operations leadership. That experience shaped the way I work today — calm under pressure, structured in my approach, and focused on solving real problems.

Outside of work, I enjoy travel, learning new technologies, and spending time with my family and our Siberian cat Bonya.

Professional Journey

My DevOps path started in structured environments where I supported existing cloud and Kubernetes platforms and learned how real production systems are operated—monitoring, incident response, and safe change management.

Most recently, I worked as the sole DevOps engineer at a small company, owning the cloud platform end-to-end and leading the migration of a legacy Elastic Beanstalk monolith toward a Terraform-based, three-tier ECS/Fargate architecture. I built AWS account structure and SSO access, environment-based GitLab CI/CD pipelines, centralized configuration using SSM and Secrets Manager, and implemented monitoring with emergency notifications into Slack.

Alongside my DevOps career, I’ve independently designed, built, and launched two production SaaS applications: MilesPay and FeedFunds. Both run on serverless AWS infrastructure, using Terraform for infrastructure management. These projects allow me to apply my cloud engineering experience to real-world products, from architecture and deployment to security, reliability, and ongoing operations.

Skills

Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)