Yauheni Padniuk — Platform Architect
Platform Architect & SRE Tech Lead based in Kraków, Poland, with 12+ years building infrastructure that scales.
About
Platform Architect at ScienceSoft leading architecture for multi-cluster Kubernetes systems serving 20K+ edge devices across 200+ microservices with 99.9% uptime. AI-empowered engineer using tools like Claude Code and Cursor daily for infrastructure automation and smarter workflows.
Tech Stack
Platform & Cloud: AWS (EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS), Azure, GCP, Multi-cluster Kubernetes, Hybrid & Air-gapped solutions, Service Mesh, SOC2 & GDPR compliance.
DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, ArgoCD, CI/CD, Istio, Linkerd.
SRE & Observability: SLI/SLO/SLA, Error Budgets, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, Chaos Engineering.
Languages & Data: Go, Python, Bash, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch.
Experience
Platform Architect / SRE Tech Lead — ScienceSoft (2021–Present)
Leading architecture of multi-cluster Kubernetes platform serving 20K+ edge devices — 10,000+ RPS, 200+ microservices, 99.9% uptime. Implemented GitOps with ArgoCD, 50+ deploys/day. Designed air-gapped K8s for regulated industries ($2M+ pipeline). Cut infra costs by 20% ($250K+/year).
DevOps Lead / Platform Engineer — ScienceSoft (2019–2021)
Led team of 12 engineers building real-time media streaming platform — 10,000+ RPS with GPU-accelerated live video transcoding. Migrated monolith to containerized microservices, cutting deployment time by 80%.
DevOps / Backend Engineer — Various Projects (2013–2019)
Built ETL pipelines processing 1M+ records/day, monitoring systems for 200+ services, and HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.
Key Achievements
- 99.9% uptime for multi-cluster platform with 20K+ edge devices
- $250K+ annual infrastructure cost savings
- 80% reduction in mean time to recovery (MTTR)
- 60% reduction in operational tickets via self-service developer platform
- $2M+ pipeline from air-gapped K8s solutions for regulated industries
Projects
- Formul.io — Scientific formulation platform for professional confectioners with water activity prediction, shelf-life estimation, and Nutri-Score.
- Disaster Recovery & Data Resilience — DR strategy for 5 critical data stores with RPO <30min and RTO <2h.
- Multi-Cluster Migration — Migration of 20+ customer clusters with zero data loss.
- Infrastructure Load Testing Framework — Automated load testing supporting 10,000+ RPS benchmarking and chaos engineering.
Contact
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