Dawit Nida

About

Senior Infrastructure and Platform Engineer with software background and 5+ years of experience operating high-scale production systems across multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS). Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes platform operations, observability, database operations, and CI/CD automation. Focused on enabling developer platforms and supporting team growth through documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing. Led infrastructure migrations to improve reliability, reduce operational overhead, and modernize systems.

Core Skills

• Cloud Platforms: GCP, AWS, Aiven, Cloudflare
• Container Orchestration: GKE, EKS, ArgoCD, KEDA, Docker, GitHub ARC
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (Multi-cloud), Packer, Helmfile, Ansible, Digger
• Observability: Datadog, Elastic Stack, Prometheus/Grafana
• Databases: Redis, MySQL/PostgreSQL
• CI/CD & Security: Renovate, GitHub Actions, Digger
• Languages: Bash/Shell, Terraform/HCL, Python, PHP
• LLM Platforms & AI Integration: Claude, Gemini API

Key Highlights

• GitHub Actions Runner Controller (ARC) deployment on Kubernetes, replacing legacy Jenkins
• Renovate deployment on Kubernetes with custom per-repo rules
• Redis Enterprise cluster setup and migration to Aiven Redis
• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch migration with Hot/Warm/Cold tiering
• Temporal server cluster deployment on Kubernetes with KEDA autoscaling
• Datadog observability platform migration and setup
• Active incident responder and on-call operations