Ilya Nikolaev

Background

About Ilya Nikolaev

I design and implement infrastructure, CICD practice, and observability for SaaS solutions with a heavy bias towards agile, modern, cloud-native, secure IaC posture. My current stack is based on AWS services, Kubernetes/EKS, and a number of CICD and monitoring tools, including ArgoCD, Grafana, Prometheus etc.Up to 2020, I was a senior consultant in Observability tools, Application Performance, Infrastructure and Business Process Monitoring, Discovery and Configuration Management, IT Automation and Orchestration Solutions. I was a Scrum master and Agile implementer at CBA and Westpac, as well as being a team lead at Epicon (now acquired by Telstra Purple).I was a part of AppDynamics (Cisco) Professional Services delivery team, participating in large-scale rollouts at NAB, Westpac and other major customers.In 2018 I obtained Master of IT Management degree at the University of Sydney (awarded Dean's Award for Academic Excellence in 2015). As a part of my research pathway I developed a blockchain-based tool for monitoring and analysis of cryptocurrency transactions.I have over 18 years of experience in providing pre- and post-sales professional services and executed projects in the US, Australia, Russia, Kuwait, and Vietnam (banking, governmental, and corporate sectors).