Ivan Barjaktarov
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Ivan Barjaktarov

ivan@barjaktarov: ~/portfolio

Who Am I

Platform Engineer by day. Solutions Designer by night. At-Scale Strategist all the time. With over a decade of Kubernetes orchestration under my belt, and a few more decades in Infrastructure Development, I'm now diving deep into the fascinating world of Agentic AI.

I fell in love with Docker orchestration and Kubernetes for its self-healing, declarative magic ✨ There's something beautiful about infrastructure that thinks for itself. Now I'm taking that philosophy to the next level by building AI agents that can actually operate that infrastructure!

Currently experimenting with cutting-edge Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to revolutionize how we approach SRE and operations.

Core Expertise

20+
Years Infrastructure
10+
Years Kubernetes
2+
Years AI/Agentic

Kubernetes Orchestration

10+ years experience with K8s at scale. From tiny dev clusters to massive production beasts. Self-healing, declarative magic.

Core Strength

Platform Engineering

Building developer platforms and self-service infrastructure at enterprise scale.

Agentic AI Systems

Building autonomous infrastructure with A2A communication and MCP. AIRE methodology for self-improving systems.

GitOps & IaC

Infrastructure as Code, Everything as Code. Declarative, GitOps-first approach with ArgoCD.

DevSecOps

Security-first deployment pipelines with observability and governance for production systems.

AWS & Azure Cloud

Full-stack cloud-native solutions on AWS EKS and Azure AKS. Multi-cloud architecture expertise.

My Toolbox

Kubernetes Ecosystem

Kubernetes Expert
Docker Expert
ArgoCD Advanced
Helm Advanced

AI & Automation

Agents Intermediate
A2A Intermediate
MCP Intermediate
Ollama Intermediate

Cloud Platforms

AWS EKS Advanced
Azure AKS Advanced
OpenShift Advanced

Languages & Operating System

Python Expert
Bash Expert
Linux Expert
Terraform Advanced
Philosophy: "In order to be successful in what you've started doing, you must finish it. Stop Starting, Start Finishing."

Featured Projects

Real-world apps crafted with care and released fully open-source on my GitHub.

Beyond Code

Outside of Kubernetes and ArgoCD finalizers, I play guitar and produce music.

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Let's Connect

Interested in the future of autonomous infrastructure? Let's chat about Agentic AI, Kubernetes at scale, or something else.