Consulting & Contract ServicesPermalink

Hi! I’m Greg, a software engineer with 12+ years of industry experience in cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, and release engineering.

Check out my LinkedIn for more info about my work.

I am available for consulting & fixed-term contract work in the domains detailed below. Any contract work I deliver includes:

• Clear, detailed documentation
• Minimal use of LLMs, with option for strict ban of LLM use [1]
• Your requirements implemented with a careful balance of security, excellent UX, simplicity, and flexibility

Reach out at work@gregmalkov.dev. Let’s build some cool stuff!

My ExpertisePermalink

KubernetesPermalink

• Kubernetes cluster creation/modification/debugging
• Helm chart creation/modification/debugging
• Installation & configuration of various operational cluster services including but not limited to:
  • Karpenter
  • OpenTelemetry Collector
  • External secrets operator
  • Kube-Prometheus stack
    • Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager
  • Service meshes such as Linkerd/Istio/Calico/Cillium

Cloud InfrastructurePermalink

• Cloud infra architecture design
• Creation/modification of cloud resources using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools
• Migration of legacy applications to containerized/cloud deployments
• Primary expertise in:
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Terraform
  • OpenTofu
  • Terragrunt
  • Ansible

Release EngineeringPermalink

• Creation/modification of build/test/release/deployment pipelines
• Creation/modification of GitOps-based infrastructure management workflows
• Primary expertise in:
  • Argo CD
  • GitLab
  • GitHub
  • Jenkins
  • CircleCI

ObservabiityPermalink

• Creation/modification of observability infrastructure for telemetry collection/storage/querying/dashboarding
• Primary expertise in:
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • DataDog