Alexander Donov
Platform engineering for startups & SMEs · Prague / Remote

Ship faster. Stop babysitting infrastructure.

Kubernetes, GitOps and CI/CD that give your developers dev, staging and production, plus a preview environment per PR. Built in weeks, on AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner or on-prem.

One contact, a senior team behind it. I'm Alexander, 15+ years in platform engineering.

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Stack

Kubernetes
GKE, EKS, AKS, self-managed
GitOps & CI/CD
ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
IaC
Terraform, Ansible, Helm, plain manifests
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ELK

Also covered: Postgres/MySQL/Redis/Kafka, backups & DR, networks & telephony, SOC 2 / ISO readiness, web and mobile development.

Track record

Qatar Insurance Company · ~$7B in assets

Migration to Google Cloud

Led the migration of QIC's platform to GCP and the move from legacy IT to an internal developer platform, built on open-source foundations.

Veeam Software · scaling toward $5B+

Internal Developer Platform for 100+ engineers

Led a team of 20+ engineers building high-load, zero-downtime multi-cloud environments for 100+ developers.

How it works

You talk to me. I scope the work, own the architecture and the result. Hands-on delivery is done by me and a small team of senior engineers I've worked with for years, pulled in only as the scope needs.

You get one point of accountability and the capacity of a team, without hiring a full-time DevOps lead before you need one.

Ways to work together

Indicative prices in EUR, excl. VAT. Final quote after a short call.

Project

Platform Bootstrap

from €5,000 · 2–4 weeks

Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, ArgoCD and Helm from scratch, handed over with docs.

  • ✓ Dev / stage / prod
  • ✓ CI/CD pipelines
  • ✓ Preview environments for PRs
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Monthly retainer

Managed Platform & SRE

from €1,200/mo

Your outsourced platform team: upkeep, monitoring and on-call-style support.

  • ✓ Monitoring, logging, incident response
  • ✓ Cluster & security upgrades
  • ✓ Cost and scaling reviews
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Flexible

Custom Scope

Custom price · hourly or fixed

Anything you need that isn't covered above: let's discuss it and scope it together.

  • ✓ Architecture, networks, telephony, DR/backups, SOC 2 / ISO
  • ✓ Web and mobile services development
  • ✓ Audits, reviews and one-off tasks
Discuss your task

Let's talk about your infrastructure

Tell me your stack and your bottleneck. I'll reply within one business day.