Victor Trapenok

Founder

Almaty, Kazakhstan14 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led large-scale platform transformations with Kubernetes.
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by ~50% through optimization.
  • Delivered AI-powered products with rapid deployment cycles.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI Infrastructure Architect with extensive experience in cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ArchitectureAi InfrastructureSaasDevopsFull-stack DevelopmentMachine LearningPlatform Architecture

Other Skills

Large Language Models (LLM)MLOpsStartupsAI APIsTypeScriptKubernetesTeam ManagementgrafanaMessage QueueMySQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)IT StrategyDockerSolution ArchitectureWeb Development

About

I’m a Principal Platform / Cloud Architect and founder-engineer with 14+ years of experience designing scalable SaaS systems, Kubernetes-based platforms, and developer infrastructure. My work focuses on turning fast-growing engineering organizations and early-stage products into predictable, cost-efficient, and scalable systems — reducing operational risk while increasing delivery speed and time to market. I’ve led large-scale platform transformations end-to-end, including migrating production backends to Kubernetes, cutting infrastructure costs by ~50%, and maintaining years of stable, incident-free operation. I design and own CI/CD and deployment strategies that reduce release cycles from days to minutes, enabling teams to move from a few releases per year to weekly production deployments without sacrificing reliability. In recent work, I’ve been building and operating AI-powered conversational products, focusing on the infrastructure and systems layer: scalable backends for LLM-based chat, request orchestration, cost control, prompt pipelines, and reliability under unpredictable traffic patterns. This includes production deployment of AI features, monitoring usage and latency, and balancing model quality against infrastructure and API costs. I operate at the intersection of architecture and execution — taking hands-on ownership, setting technical direction, and delivering outcomes without unnecessary process overhead. My focus is leverage: improving developer velocity, lowering operational risk, and making infrastructure boring and predictable. Engagement format: B2B / C2C via my own company. Remote-first. Clear scope. Clear metrics. No HR overhead.

Experience

14 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 2 mos
Current Experience

Imba-dev

Cloud Architect

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Kazakhstan · Remote

  • Cloud Architect (confidential B2B project)
  • I work full-time as a Platform / Cloud Architect on a large-scale production system (Kubernetes, CI/CD, infra cost optimization, reliability).
  • In parallel, I build and ship AI-powered MVPs alongside my full-time architecture role.
  • Deliver end-to-end MVPs: idea → production → first users in weeks
  • Use AI across the full cycle: ideation, coding, infra, analytics
  • Optimize for speed, signal, and unit economics — not technical perfection
  • Validate through real users and metrics; shut down early if numbers don’t work
  • Operate in B2B / C2C format via my own company (Kazakhstan)
  • Typical stack: AI APIs, TypeScript, cloud infra, Kubernetes — tools chosen per task, not by habit.
Machine LearningLarge Language Models (LLM)DevOpsMLOpsStartupsSaaS+2

Nanoheal

2 roles

Principal Engineer

Mar 2022Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Remote

  • Development of a multi-tenant SaaS cloud project that provide web interface for managing kubernetes and deployments.
  • It decreased deploying time, and now product-sales for product demonstration can deploy nanoheal software from our internal ui in one of the existed clusters in several minutes. It save a lot of working time for whole team.
  • Developers and QA team can deploy all services from specified development brunches for testing.
Team ManagementgrafanaMessage QueueMySQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)IT Strategy+40

Staff Software Engineer

Apr 2021Apr 2022 · 1 yr · Remote

  • Architected a multi-tenant SaaS control plane for Kubernetes-based environments.
  • Built internal UI allowing the Sales and QA teams to deploy complex setups in minutes.
  • Reduced CI/CD infrastructure costs by 70% by leveraging spot instances and Karpenter (see blog post).
  • Migrated core services to Kubernetes; introduced EFS for persistent storage.
  • Created Ansible playbooks that reduced on-prem installation time from 6h+ to <1h
  • Acted as a hybrid DevOps / Cloud / SRE engineer and led cross-functional efforts.
  • Led backend architecture for deployment management and configuration.
  • Mentored junior engineers and conducted regular code reviews.
  • Designed scalable infrastructure on AWS; implemented monitoring and alerting.
Team ManagementTechnical ArchitecturegrafanaMessage QueueAnsibleAmazon Web Services (AWS)+38

Cube dev

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2020Mar 2021 · 7 mos · Vladivostok, Primorye, Russia · Remote

  • This role combined full-stack engineering with cloud DevOps responsibilities. I served as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, working with Cube.js and Cube.dev (Node.js, React.js, SQL), while also applying my DevOps skills to manage Kubernetes clusters in both Google Cloud and AWS.
  • Contributed to Cube.js open-source and internal SaaS analytics platform.
  • Built cloud for cube.dev - Kubernetes deployment visibility dashboard – (React + Ant Design) that enabled faster debugging and reduced issue resolution time for customer environments.
  • Designed and implemented APIs for real-time pod monitoring via Kubernetes API, improving reliability and transparency of managed services.
Clean CodingMessage QueueMySQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)Web DevelopmentQuery Optimization+24

Noveo group

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2019Aug 2020 · 10 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France · Remote

  • Developed and optimized high-performance front-end applications for a leading global marketing technology firm, improving user engagement and interaction for major enterprise clients.
  • Enhanced application features and functionality based on user feedback and analytics, contributing to customer satisfaction and product usability.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with UX designers, back-end developers, and product managers to align on project goals and deliver innovative solutions.
  • Led front-end performance optimization initiatives, reducing load times and enhancing overall application responsiveness.
  • React.JS, TypeScript and NodeJS development for a large SaaS project.
Clean CodingEnglishLinuxTeamworkFull-Stack DevelopmentSaaS+5

Sancom

Machine Learning Engineer

Jan 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Vladivostok, Primorye, Russia · Remote

  • At SanCom, I used machine learning and my Full-Stack Engineering skills to develop SaaS service capable of detecting answering machines in multiple languages.
  • Designed and built a multilingual machine learning system to detect answering machines using audio fingerprinting from the ground up.
  • Created a custom training interface to label and process large volumes of audio samples from telecom providers across 12+ countries.
  • Achieved over 80% classification accuracy on the initial version of the system, enabling reliable distinction between voicemail, busy tone, and unreachable numbers.
  • Scaled the system to process up to 10,000 call recordings per hour on a single server, with support for horizontal scaling.
  • Offered as a premium analytics service to clients of the company, the system provided insights into call delivery outcomes and failure reasons.
  • Enabled clients to reduce manual analysis and optimize their outreach campaigns through real-time reports and call outcome dashboards.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningAudio FingerprintingTechnical ArchitecturewebrtcMessage Queue+17

Individual entrepreneur

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2017Jan 2018 · 11 mos · Vladivostok, Primorye, Russia · On-site

  • • Founded Comet Server (comet-server.com), an open-source real-time engine, adopted by 50+ production systems and serving thousands of concurrent users
webrtcWeb DevelopmentPHPSoft SkillsLinuxProblem Solving+9

Vst consulting

Full Stack Engineer

Feb 2015Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Vladivostok, Primorye, Russia · On-site

  • Co-created Polemarch, an open-source infrastructure orchestration platform (600+ GitHub stars), integrating Ansible with a modern web GUI and kernel-level operations. Built the frontend architecture using Django, Vue.js, and RESTful APIs, enabling seamless job scheduling, role-based access control, and inventory management. The platform managed over 1,000 servers across multiple data centers and supported highly complex deployment scenarios.
  • Engineered a speech synthesis proxy system for telecom use cases, bridging MRCPv1/v2 protocols with modern REST APIs. Developed a custom C plugin for UniMRCP to stream real-time audio, enabling seamless interoperability between legacy voice platforms and web services.
  • Led adoption of modern engineering practices such as Gitflow, TDD, CI/CD, and automated infrastructure testing.
  • Contributed to internal knowledge sharing and mentoring programs, helping scale engineering capacity and code quality.
grafanaAnsibleDockerApplication FrameworksTransmission Control Protocol (TCP)Scalable Web Applications+13

Worldpage.ru

Full-stack Developer

Feb 2012Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Vladivostok, Primorye, Russia · Hybrid

  • Business social network site.
  • Developed core modules (job board, chat, blog, and search) for a business-focused social network.
  • Designed and implemented an ML-based moderation system that reduced spam by 90%.
  • Built a highly available Sphinx search cluster with real-time indexing and fault tolerance.
  • Extended Sphinx to support REPLACE operations on distributed indexes, enabling seamless, zero-downtime updates.
Application FrameworksPHPSphinxSearchjQueryFull-Stack DevelopmentGit+4

Education

Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU)

Specialist Degree (Software engineer) — Computing systems complexes and networks

Jan 2010Jan 2015

Primorsky Polytechnic College

secondary vocational education (Software engineer) — Computer Programming

Jan 2006Jan 2010

Secondary comprehensive school No. 66

Basic General Education — Basic General Education

Sep 1997May 2006

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