Infrastructure engineer with 19+ years in IT. In recent years — operating and evolving e-commerce and card processing infrastructure in fintech: Internet Payment Gateway, 3-D Secure (v1/v2), ACS, integrations, fault-tolerant environments, and automation.
What I can help with
- Payment processing & e-commerce — deploying, integrating and operating IPG / 3DS / ACS components, working with vendors, payment scheme certifications;
- High availability — application clustering, Nginx, Keepalived, single entry points, building production and integration environments;
- Automation — Python, Go, Bash, SQL, Ansible, GitLab CI: from day-to-day operations to continuous delivery of vendor applications;
- Observability & operations — monitoring and logging (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Graylog), production incident analysis, operations documentation.
Career
MTS Fintech — Lead Infrastructure Engineer, E-commerce Processing
2022 — present · Moscow
Operating and evolving card processing infrastructure: IPG, 3DS (v1/v2), ACS.
- Deployed and configured the ECOMM processing integration environment;
- Implemented and operated 3DS/ACS components from multiple vendors;
- Built a fault-tolerant setup: application clustering, Nginx, Keepalived, single entry point;
- Developed a Go service routing AReq messages between two processing platforms during migration;
- Set up continuous delivery for vendor Java applications via Artifactory, GitLab, Ansible;
- Participated in MirAccept certification (Mir payment system);
- Automated integration and operations workflows with Python, Go, SQL, Ansible, Bash.
Aktion-MCFR — System Administrator / DevOps Engineer
2017 — 2022 · Moscow
Company server infrastructure and high-load web services (PHP, Nginx, MySQL/Percona).
- Migrated key services to VMware vSphere / vSAN;
- Backup system: Veeam, TrueNAS, ZFS, MinIO, rsync, Python/Bash automation;
- Rolled out FreeIPA, Zabbix, PMM, Graylog, Ansible AWX;
- CI/CD with GitLab CI and Ansible for development and production environments;
- Moved the database to Percona Server; introduced Git/gitflow to the dev team;
- Planned and executed a full office and data-center infrastructure relocation.
Earlier: 2006 — 2017
From system administrator and webmaster to PHP developer and development lead: websites and modules in PHP (WordPress, Drupal, 1C-Bitrix, Yii), external API integrations (RIPE, ISPmanager), self-hosted platforms on Ubuntu Server (PHP, Nginx, MySQL), and network infrastructure (UniFi, MikroTik). Full history — on LinkedIn.
Education & languages
- Moscow Witte University — Bachelor’s degree, Applied Informatics (2019);
- Tashkent College of Informatics and Computer Engineering — Technician-Programmer (2001);
- Kubernetes course (MTS corporate university, 2026);
- Russian — native; English — technical (documentation, correspondence).
Contacts
- Telegram: @goodigy
- Email: qwestdown@icloud.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/igy-m