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Eugene Romancenko
Principal DevOps & Platform Engineering Leader
Building and governing sovereign & national cloud infrastructure at scale: Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines that keep regulated platforms online, 24/7, from London.
11+
years in cloud & DevOps
20+
product teams partnered with at SAP
24/7
production delivery ownership
4
hyperscalers & sovereign clouds shipped on
# about
I run the platform that other platforms deploy onto.
Currently founding and leading SAP's BTP Operational Delivery team, the group responsible for operational reliability and platform governance of SAP's Sovereign Cloud. Before that: security-first GCP and Azure engagements for the NHS, AXA and Lloyds Banking, and cloud platform builds going back to 2015.
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From the blog
Uptime Monitoring as Code: Site24x7, Terraform, and Zoho's OAuth
An external uptime check, defined in Terraform, on a free plan. It took a data-center mix-up, a trial-versus-free-plan question nobody documents, and a provider whose defaults pointed at Asia Pacific. The journey, the Terraform, and the Zoho OAuth flow underneath it.
Watching It: Golden Signals, a Region Quirk, and Logs on a Timer
Part three of the CI/CD series: once the pipeline could be trusted to ship, the next question was whether the site itself could be trusted to say so. Golden signals on a static site, why two alarms had to live in us-east-1, an uptime check from outside AWS, and why every log here expires in three days.
Building the Pipeline: GitLab, Two Jobs, Zero Dollars
The follow-up to the CI/CD decision post, covering what actually got built: why GitLab won, how the pipeline is wired, what it costs, and the security choices that turned out to matter more than the vendor pick.