# Elen Kartina

I enjoy automating infrastructure (IaC) and orchestration.

- elenkartina@gmail.com
- https://kartinka.dev/

## Work Experience

### Pixmove
**DevOps engineer**  
*Jul 2025 - Present*

- Developed and maintained various internal Ansible collections
- Built logging, metrics, and alerting infrastructure
- Administered a Kubernetes (k3s) cluster
- Developed reusable Helm libraries
- Maintained CI/CD pipelines

### Higher School of Economics
**System administrator**  
*Dec 2022 - Jun 2025*

- Administered a Linux server for a university laboratory hosting web applications
- Containerized existing workloads
- Helped developers transition to the new deployment workflow
- Developed several public web tools

### toOlympus
**Clojure developer**  
*Dec 2019 - Aug 2020*

- Developed backend REST API logic
- Maintained an existing codebase
- Implemented unit tests

## Education

### Higher School of Economics
**Fundamental and Computational Linguistics**  
*Jul 2025*

Studied natural language processing (NLP), data analysis, machine learning, and theoretical linguistics. Developed a morphological parser for the Shughni language as a bachelor's thesis project.

## Skills

- **Containers and Orchestration:** Docker, Kubernetes (k3s), Helm
- **Infrastructure as Code (IaC):** Ansible, Terraform
- **Monitoring:** Prometheus, Grafana, Vector
- **CI/CD:** GitLab CI, Werf
- **Operating systems:** Linux
- **Programming:** Python, Rust, C++