DevOps Engineer • Systems & Automation

Building resilient infrastructure that ships faster, fails quieter.

System administrator turned DevOps engineer focused on Linux, automation, and observability. I turn manual ops into repeatable pipelines and design platforms that keep teams confident in production.

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Reliability-first Metrics-driven IaC & Automation
Ops Control Center Healthy
Release cadence Weekly
Mean deploy time 18 min
MTTR improvement 32%
Terraform Kubernetes Grafana

About

Based in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. I specialize in Linux, automation, and infrastructure management with hands-on work in containerization, monitoring, and IaC.

Focus

Make operations predictable with pipelines, telemetry, and clear runbooks.

Strengths

Infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and incident response improvements.

Current Learning

Kubernetes production patterns, cloud automation, and advanced SRE practices.

Operational Impact

Short, outcome-oriented highlights you can expand with real metrics.

Provisioning Speed

Automated golden images and IaC pipelines for consistent environments.

2h → 20m

Deployment Reliability

Introduced CI/CD gates, smoke tests, and rollback playbooks.

95% success

Observability Depth

Unified metrics, logs, and alerts into service dashboards.

32% MTTR drop

Case Studies

Structured stories that show the problems, approach, and measurable results.

Infrastructure Automation

Reusable Terraform modules and automated provisioning for repeatable environments.

Terraform • Ansible • Linux
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Observability Platform

Grafana + Zabbix stack with unified alerts and actionable dashboards.

Grafana • Zabbix • Alerting
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CI/CD Pipeline Template

GitHub Actions pipeline for linting, testing, and container builds.

GitHub Actions • Docker
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Linux Homelab Automation

Bootstrap scripts, configuration management, and backup automation.

Bash • Ansible • Backups
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Selected Projects

Hands-on labs and applied work across automation, monitoring, and platform ops.

Docker Deployments

Composable stacks with health checks, logging, and service discovery.

Docker • Compose • Grafana

Kubernetes Exploration

Kind/Minikube clusters to practice deployment workflows and Helm releases.

Kubernetes • Helm • Kind

Backup Automation

Automated backup verification, retention policies, and restore drills.

Bash • Cron • Rsync

Zabbix + Grafana

Centralized metrics, alert routing, and SLA-focused dashboards.

Zabbix • Grafana • Alerting

Toolbox

A modern DevOps stack that balances automation, visibility, and stability.

Linux Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana Loki Vault Networking AWS / Azure

DevOps Notes

Practical tutorials and field notes on Linux, monitoring, and automation.

Linux Hardening Baseline

Step-by-step checklist for SSH, firewall rules, and system updates.

Linux • Security

Zabbix + Grafana Quickstart

Install, connect, and build an infra health dashboard in under an hour.

Monitoring • Dashboards

Automated Backups with Rsync

Incremental backups, retention policies, and verification scripts.

Automation • Backups

Services

Engagements focused on reliability, automation, and production readiness.

Infrastructure as Code

Design reusable Terraform modules and automation workflows.

CI/CD Enablement

Build automated pipelines with quality gates and safe deploys.

Observability

Metrics, logs, and alerting that match your service objectives.

Platform Ops

Linux administration, hardening, and performance tuning.

Resume

Download the full experience timeline and certifications.

Contact

Let’s talk about automation, infrastructure, or a production rescue.

Email

zdravko.panov@example.com

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