Eliazar Chodjayev

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20+ cloud platforms built

50% CI/CD time reduction

99.9% production uptime

~$45K tooling saved / year

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I build secure cloud platforms and compliance infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure —

combining Kubernetes, Terraform, DevSecOps, and pragmatic architecture. Over 4+ years,

I've built 20+ landing zones, cut PR-to-prod cycles by 50%+,

and cut cloud + tooling spend by roughly $45K/year.

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Production cloud architecture

Multi-account and multi-project foundations, IAM guardrails, network segmentation, DNS, security baselines, and cost-aware defaults.

Kubernetes & delivery platforms

Kubernetes platforms across cloud providers with GitOps, observability, and autoscaling for production workloads.

Secured CI/CD pipelines

CI/CD pipelines with embedded security checks, SAST/SCA, secret detection, and vulnerability scanning baked into delivery.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, and cloud-native automation for repeatable environments and scalable changes.

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AWS GCP Azure

Kubernetes Terraform Terragrunt CloudFormation ArgoCD Helm Karpenter Crossplane ACK Config Connector

Python Node.js TypeScript Bash PowerShell

GitHub Actions GitLab CI Azure DevOps AWS CodeBuild Jenkins Artifactory

Grafana Prometheus ELK CloudWatch Google Cloud Monitoring Loki Azure Monitor

Zero Trust IAM Guardrails WAF SAST SCA Secret Detection SBOM OWASP CIS Hardening Checkmarx Orca QRadar SIEM

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Platform & DevOps Engineer Nov 2022 — Present Cloud Castles · Cloud consultancy · Remote 20+ production landing zones across AWS, GCP, and Azure for client organizations. Zero-Trust and SOC 2-aligned controls, $45K+/year in cloud and tooling cost removed, release cycles cut by half.

Founder & Sole Engineer May 2026 — Present Veritrail · Independent · Remote SOC 2 evidence automation, built and shipped solo — backend, frontend, infrastructure, and deploy.

Founding Engineer Aug 2024 — Mar 2026 SBC Finance · Remote Financial trading platform integrating the Interactive Brokers API for live market order execution. Zero to production.

Post-Silicon Validation Engineer Jan 2022 — Jun 2022 Intel Corporation · Contract · Haifa, Israel CPU and DDR platform stability through automated stress and reliability testing on Linux.

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Extracted and sanitized from private client and production work, then published as standalone reference repos — so commit history reflects the date of publication, not the years of work behind them.

[01] Veritrail — SOC 2 Evidence Automation

Python · FastAPI · React · Postgres · Celery · Terraform · Vault PKI

Built and deployed solo: a multi-tenant compliance platform with 140+ automated checks mapped across 90 SOC 2, CIS AWS L1, and ISO 27001 controls. Uses scoped read-only IAM roles for agentless collection and deliberately runs on a single VPS with Docker Compose—not Kubernetes or microservices—because that is the right operational tradeoff at its current scale.

↗ github.com/Veritrail/Veritrail

[02] EKS Production Platform

HCL · Terraform · EKS · Karpenter · Helm

Production EKS platform with Karpenter autoscaling, IRSA, External Secrets, observability, and encrypted storage.

↗ github.com/awakzdev/eks-production-iac

[03] AWS Serverless Platform

HCL · Terraform · Terragrunt · Lambda · Aurora Serverless · Kinesis · CloudFront

Serverless AWS platform with Lambda, Aurora Serverless v2, API Gateway, SQS FIFO, Firehose, CloudFront, least-privilege IAM, and KMS.

↗ github.com/awakzdev/aws-serverless-iac-portfolio

[04] GCP Production Platform

HCL · Terraform · Terragrunt · GKE · ArgoCD

GCP platform with GKE, ArgoCD GitOps, Cloud SQL, private networking, IAM, CDN, WAF, and Cloud Armor.

↗ github.com/awakzdev/gcp-platform-iac

[05] AWS Audit & SIEM Pipeline

HCL · Terraform · Terragrunt · Lambda · Python 3.11 · KMS · Secrets Manager

Serverless audit pipeline that retrieves Monday.com logs, encrypts them, and forwards them into SIEM workflows.

↗ github.com/awakzdev/monday-audit-pipeline

[06] DevSecOps CI Pipeline

HTML · GitLab CI · OWASP ZAP · SAST

GitLab pipeline with SAST, secret detection, authenticated OWASP ZAP DAST, and a unified security report.

↗ github.com/awakzdev/gitlab-devsecops-ci

[07] Event-Driven Alert System

HCL · Lambda · EventBridge · SNS · SQS

AWS alerting system using EventBridge, Lambda, SNS, Slack fan-out, DLQ handling, and least-privilege IAM.

↗ github.com/awakzdev/aws-eventbridge-notifications

[08] Ansible Automated Pipeline

Jinja2 · Ansible · Traefik · CI

Ansible automation for provisioning, Traefik routing, application deployments, and multi-environment CI workflows.

↗ github.com/awakzdev/ansible-platform-automation

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Open to senior platform, DevSecOps, and cloud security roles.

Four years building and running production cloud platforms for client organizations, plus a compliance-automation product shipped solo. Most interested in work where security and platform engineering are the same job.

Open to: Senior Platform · DevSecOps · Cloud Security Based: Haifa District, Israel Work: Tel Aviv area (on-site or hybrid) · Remote Stack: AWS / GCP / Azure · Kubernetes · Terraform · Python

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