TeamLead SRE_

Bakhtiyar Iminov

10+ years building, operating, and evolving high-load, fault-tolerant IT systems. I implement SRE practices (SLI/SLO/SLA), reduce operational risk, and improve service reliability. I lead DevOps/SRE teams across the public sector, fintech, and EdTech in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

10+ years in prod Team Lead On-call 24/7 Relocation ready Kubernetes HA/DR architecture SLA 99.9% Ansible

bakhtiyar@sre:~

$ whoami

Bakhtiyar Iminov — TeamLead SRE

$ cat profile.json

{

  "experience": "10+ years",

  "role": "DevOps / SRE Team Lead",

  "stack": ["K8s", "Prometheus", "CI/CD"],

  "status": "available"

}

$ uptime --sla

✓ 99.9% services online

10+ years of experience
11 companies & projects
25+ technologies in the stack
2010 career started

About me

An engineer who owns the outcome

Experienced DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with hands-on Team Lead experience managing infrastructure and service-support teams. Originally from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Open to relocation and business trips.

Throughout my career I've built, optimized, and maintained high-load distributed systems, and led teams of system/network administrators, DevOps and SRE engineers. I know how to plan IT budgets, set up service support and development processes, hire and grow IT specialists, and successfully run projects from idea to delivery.

My strengths are analytical thinking, attention to detail, a results-driven mindset, and teamwork. I value continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and building a positive professional environment.

SRE practices in action SLI/SLO/SLA, incident & problem management, RCA, MTTR reduction.
Team leadership Leading DevOps/SRE and sysadmin engineers, mentoring, running on-call.
24/7 reliability Designing HA/DR architectures and keeping federal-scale services online.
Relocation ready Open to relocation, business trips, and working in distributed teams.

Key expertise

What I bring to a project

I don't just keep the lights on — I build processes that make services more reliable and teams faster.

Reliability & SRE practices

I implement SLI/SLO/SLA, incident & problem management. I reduce MTTR through incident analysis and root-cause investigation (RCA).

High-load systems

I design and evolve HA/DR architecture for federal-scale services and payment systems.

Containerization & orchestration

Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes — from production clusters to load balancing and fault tolerance.

Monitoring & observability

Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Zabbix — full infrastructure visibility and fast incident response.

CI/CD & automation

GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Bash — automating routine work and speeding up production delivery.

Team leadership

Leading DevOps/SRE and sysadmin teams, building processes, mentoring engineers, running on-call duty.

Stack

Skills & technologies

SRE / DevOps

  • SLI / SLO / SLA
  • Incident & Problem Mgmt
  • RCA
  • MTTR
  • On-call

Administration

  • Linux & Unix
  • Windows Server
  • Systems engineering
  • IT & data center architecture

Containerization

  • Docker
  • Docker Swarm
  • Kubernetes

Virtualization

  • VMware
  • Proxmox
  • KVM
  • Hyper-V

Monitoring

  • Prometheus
  • Alertmanager
  • Grafana
  • Zabbix

DBs & queues

  • PostgreSQL
  • Patroni cluster
  • Apache Kafka
  • Message brokers
  • Cache systems

CI/CD & automation

  • Git
  • GitLab / GitLab CI/CD
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • Bash

Network & security

  • Data networks
  • Information security
  • Suricata (IDS/IPS)
  • PCI DSS

Fault tolerance

  • High-load systems
  • HA/DR

Career

Work experience

  1. August 2026 — Present Now

    DevOps / SRE Engineer

    rx2go.ai

  2. March 2024 — July 2026

    TeamLead SRE

    Kundalik LLC (emaktab.uz)

  3. July 2021 — February 2024

    Head of Systems & Network Administration

    Salyk Service State Institution, under the State Tax Service, Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic

  4. September 2020 — April 2021

    DevOps Engineer

    Namba Soft LLC

  5. September 2018 — August 2020

    Senior System Administrator

    IT Service State Institution, under the State Tax Service of the Kyrgyz Republic

  6. May 2018 — September 2018

    Senior System Administrator

    TSEV State Enterprise, under the State Committee for IT and Communications of the Kyrgyz Republic

  7. October 2017 — April 2018

    Senior System Administrator

    IT Service State Institution, under the State Tax Service of the Kyrgyz Republic

  8. Aug 2014 — Feb 2016, Oct 2016 — Sep 2017

    Technical Consultant

    Private practice (CBI.KG and others)

  9. January 2014 — July 2014

    IT Specialist / Engineer

    AiTiEl LLC

  10. June 2011 — January 2014

    Senior IT Specialist

    Mol Bulak Finance Holding

  11. March 2010 — April 2011

    Chief Engineer

    Inter Alliance LLC

Ready to talk?

Open to DevOps/SRE opportunities, infrastructure reliability consulting, and project work. I reply fast — fastest on Telegram.

Get in touch

Contact

Open to offers and projects. The fastest way to reach me is Telegram.