Andrey Gubarev

Andrey Gubarev
RU Citizen
Mtskheta St 17, Tbilisi, Georgia

Work Experience

Director of Infrastructure at RebelMouse

Jan 2017 - Present
New York, USA

2025

  • Developed new Python-based web crawler for CDN cache prewarming, significantly reducing time required to cache to populate after huge content updates.
  • Researched and developed workflow for financial reports generation based on Anthropic Claude and Clickhouse MCP.
  • Successfully led modernization project to upgrade development environment by implementing AWS EBS volumes, AWS Backup for EBS, and Restic for manual backups, significantly improving data durability and safeguarding critical development operations.
  • Designed and implemented an Incident Response process for the DevOps team, resulting in a 90% reduction in unprocessed incidents.
  • Refined roles and responsibilities of DevOps team to improve transparency and alignment with company roadmap.

2024

  • Researched and developed analysis of Docker container performance metrics using Pandas to optimize scaling policies in Kubernetes clusters and reduce resource overprovisioning.
  • Designed and implemented cost-effective terabyte-scale centralized logging solution using OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, and Grafana as a replacement for Loki-stack, significantly improving system stability and performance.
  • Developed Grafana dashboards for resource utilization analysis of applications in a Kubernetes cluster to reduce compute resource consumption.
  • Successfully led the company's SOC2 compliance initiative from planning to certification, managing a team of 4 engineers, implementing required technical controls, and establishing new workflows - resulting in successful certification on first attempt.
  • Developed a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) for the company, implementing a minimal number of vendor-locked dependencies to ensure successful operation and recovery in case of major incidents.
  • Developed an automated SSH user management solution using AWS SSM and Ansible to ensure security and proper access control across all AWS stacks.
  • Documented roles and responsibilities of the DevOps team. Developed personal development plans for each team member.

DevOps Engineer at RebelMouse

Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
New York, USA

Software Engineer at RebelMouse

Nov 2012 - Jan 2015
New York, USA

Software Engineer at CasaHop

Dec 2011 - Nov 2012
New York, USA