Hello, I'm

Olga Galsan

DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Passionate about building scalable cloud infrastructure, automating CI/CD pipelines and deploying cloud-native systems across AWS, GCP and Azure. Based in New York, NY.

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Live on Kubernetes · Deployed via ArgoCD & GitHub Actions

About me

I'm a DevOps and Cloud Engineer based in New York, NY, passionate about building infrastructure that is reliable, secure, and frictionless for development teams. My background in accounting gave me a deep appreciation for precision and structured thinking — skills that translate directly into designing airtight systems.

Over the past five years I've worked in fintech and financial data, managing production Kubernetes clusters on EKS, architecting GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, and provisioning AI infrastructure on AWS Bedrock. I believe that if something is done manually more than once, it should be automated.

Some technologies I work with regularly:

Kubernetes & Docker
Terraform & Ansible
AWS · GCP · Azure
GitHub Actions & Jenkins
ArgoCD & GitOps
Prometheus & Grafana
HashiCorp Vault & Doppler
Bash & Python

Certifications

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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

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Terraform Certified Associate

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Experience

DevOps Engineer @ MoneyGram International

Jan 2021 – Present

Maintained and troubleshot containerized applications across Kubernetes clusters on EKS/ECS, ensuring uptime and scalability for cloud-native microservices.
Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines integrated with ArgoCD for GitOps-based deployments, improving deployment consistency and eliminating manual steps.
Implemented full monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog — including custom dashboards for Kubernetes metrics and application health.
Built custom Terraform modules to automate provisioning of AWS compute, networking, and database components.
Managed secure secrets handling across CI/CD workflows and Kubernetes environments using Doppler and HashiCorp Vault.
Integrated testing into CI/CD pipelines (unit, SonarQube, Veracode, image signing and scanning), improving code quality and bug detection speed.
Automated Slack alerts for CI/CD pipeline inactivity during business hours, improving operational visibility.

Cloud Engineer @ Morningstar

Jan 2020 – Dec 2021

Designed and managed scalable AWS architectures using VPC, EC2, Route53, S3, CloudWatch, SNS, ECR, KMS, and RDS.
Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and automated cloud infrastructure on GCP using Terraform.
Automated nightly database backups for Docker Compose deployments to Google Cloud Storage with a 30-day retention policy.
Improved image promotion pipeline reliability by implementing configurable retry logic with backoff for retagging and pushing.

Projects

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GitHub ↗

This Portfolio

Built and deployed using a production-grade DevOps pipeline. k3s Kubernetes on DigitalOcean, ArgoCD for GitOps continuous delivery, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, NGINX Ingress, and cert-manager with Let's Encrypt TLS. Every git push triggers an automatic build and deploy — zero manual steps.

KubernetesArgoCDGitHub ActionsDockerNGINXcert-manager

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AI Chatbot Infrastructure

Provisioned AWS Bedrock (non-prod) using Terraform modules and built CI/CD pipelines for an internal AI monorepo with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD. Enabled modular, agent-based chatbot architecture with secure secret handling via Doppler, supporting LLM experimentation in a sandboxed environment.

AWS BedrockTerraformGitHub ActionsArgoCDDoppler

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Android Build Automation

Automated the React Native Android build process using Yarn-based scripts and CLI workflows. Enabled QA engineers to generate APKs independently, reducing reliance on frontend engineers and significantly accelerating testing cycles.

React NativeYarnCI/CDAutomation