Yaroslav Nechayev
on-call, most weeks

Yaroslav Nechayev

Platform Engineering Lead | SRE & Infrastructure Specialist

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysianechayevyaroslav@gmail.com

I'm a Platform Engineering Lead / SRE with 8+ years delivering scalable, resilient infrastructure across cloud and on-premise environments — from designing large-scale container orchestration platforms to rolling out observability frameworks and establishing reliability standards through SLIs and SLOs. I care about cost-efficient infrastructure modernization, improving system availability, and enabling engineering velocity through automation and well-defined operational processes. I'm a strong advocate for a reliability-focused culture, with a track record of building incident management practices, clear escalation paths, and cross-team collaboration.

Experience

BigPay

Kuala Lumpur
Platform Senior Engineer Manager · 2025 — Present
Senior DevOps Engineer · 2023 — 2025
  • Accelerated release velocity by designing and implementing a fully automated canary deployment pipeline, reducing release cycles from biweekly to daily.
  • Modernized the observability stack, improving monitoring granularity by 2×, metrics retention capacity by 4×, and overall system reliability, all without increasing operational costs.
  • Established SLOs from the ground up, defining and aligning reliability targets across platform services.
  • Drove cross-functional reliability initiatives with engineering teams, improving monitoring practices and issue resolution workflows to consistently meet SLO targets.
  • Reduced maintenance overhead by deprecating legacy tooling in favor of scalable, community-supported platforms.

Experian

Kuala Lumpur
Senior DevOps Engineer · 2020 — 2023
  • Developed an automated resource optimization tool for OpenShift clusters that dynamically reallocates workloads and scales down unused resources, achieving approximately 20% cost savings.
  • Led the PaaS team as the Point of Contact (POC) for the Malaysia timezone, coordinating cross-functional efforts and ensuring smooth platform operations.
  • Planned and executed major OpenShift upgrades, minimizing downtime and maintaining platform stability throughout the process.

FrogAsia

Kuala Lumpur
Senior System (DevOps) Engineer · 2019 — 2020
System (DevOps) Engineer · 2018 — 2019
  • Led migration of critical applications from legacy appliance-based infrastructure to scalable OpenShift clusters.
  • Developed fully automated continuous delivery pipelines with integrated backup and rollback capabilities, enhancing release reliability and deployment speed.
  • Designed and implemented load testing frameworks for UAT environments to proactively identify performance bottlenecks and potential issues.
  • Optimized ETL pipeline performance and reduced failure rates by tuning Elasticsearch queries, resulting in faster data processing and increased reliability.

Datacom

Kuala Lumpur
Solution Engineer · 2017 — 2018
Technical Support Engineer · 2016 — 2017
  • Recognized as a top performer by consistently exceeding KPIs, including ticket resolution volume, response time, and customer satisfaction ratings.
  • Delivered a client-facing API integration with the Odin Automation platform, enhancing service extensibility and customer capabilities.
  • Mentored and upskilled fellow support engineers, contributing to improved team performance and faster issue resolution.

Education

Novosibirsk State Technical University

Novosibirsk
2012 — 2016
Bachelor's, Instrument Engineering, Automation and Computer Engineering

Cloud & container orchestration

OpenShiftKubernetesDockerAWSAzureGCP

GitOps, CI/CD & delivery

GitHubGitLabBitbucketFluxCDCloud BuildHelmLinkerdFlagger

Observability & logging

GrafanaPrometheusThanosDynatraceOpenTelemetryJaegerSysdigElasticsearchSplunkFluentdFluent BitBigQuery

Databases & messaging

MySQLPostgreSQLKafka

Networking & load balancing

NginxApacheHAProxy

Infrastructure as code & virtualization

TerraformAnsibleAnsible TowerProxmoxVirtualBoxVMwareOneView

Security & storage

Vault (HashiCorp)ClairMinIOGlusterFSNFSCephFS

Languages, build tools & collaboration

PythonBashJavaRustJavaScriptGradleBazelJIRAServiceNow

Languages

EnglishRussian

Also

Active LearningAdaptabilityProblem SolvingCreative ThinkingCritical Thinking