Profile

Shahriar Eftekhari — Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in Tallinn, Estonia.

Focused on increasing velocity, reliability, and quality across cloud-native systems. Deep experience with Linux, Kubernetes, Networking, and modern DevOps tooling.

Contact & Links

• Email: me@shahriar.ee
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shahriar-e
• GitHub: github.com/mehraneftekhari99
• Location: Tallinn, Estonia

Current

Site Reliability Engineer @ Bolt (Apr 2024 — present).

Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ Paxful/Noones (Mar 2021 — present, remote).

Tech Interests

Cloud infra, high-scale distributed systems, observability, security, cost efficiency, and a soft spot for open source.

Summary

Devoted to increasing velocity, reliability, and quality for IT products. Extensive SRE experience on uptime-critical services (Paxful.com, ArvanCloud CDN), managing high-scale distributed workloads and diving into low-level system engineering when necessary.

Experience

• Site Reliability Engineer — Bolt Technology OÜ (04/2024–Present, Tallinn)
  • Maintain data services and stateful workloads; on-call rotations.
• Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Paxful/Noones (03/2021–Present, Tallinn | New York, Remote)
  • Migrated services to Helm, Vault, ArgoCD, Terraform; weekly on-call; built services for Data/Security; helped cut infra costs by 50% across teams.
• Site Reliability Engineer — AbreArvan (ArvanCloud) (06/2019–01/2021, Tehran)
  • Troubleshot/operated CDN infra; DDoS detection/mitigation; self-hosted Kubernetes migration.
• Lead DevOps Engineer — Innovation Village (06/2018–06/2019, Isfahan)
  • Embedded Linux for LTE modem/router (OpenWRT); CI/CD; AAA integrated with Linux networking.
• Site Reliability Engineer — CPOL (03/2016–03/2017, Isfahan)
  • Raspberry Pi distributed computing lab; infra across Windows/Linux/Mikrotik/Cisco; IPTV appliance.

Skills

Platforms/Cloud: Linux, Windows Server, AWS

Networking: Cisco R&S

Data/Streaming: Elastic Stack, Redis, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink

DevOps: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD, Vault, SaltStack, Automation, Security, Incident Response

Programming: Python, Lua, SQL

Languages: FA/EN (Excellent), DE/EE/RU (Basic)

Achievements

• WorldSkills Iran — 1st (2016)
• Khwarizmi International Awards — Bronze (2016)
• IUT APA CTF — 1st (2018)
• APA CyberSecurity Startup Contest — 1st (2018)
• SharifCTF — 2nd (2019)

Projects

• MinTweet / Pantheon (2023–Present): LLM experiments in social contexts.
• Intelligent Distributed Computing (2015–2016): runtime patching & offloading; Khwarizmi award.
• rayanfam.com Blog (2017–2021): systems deep-dives.

Education

• B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics (unfinished), University of Isfahan (2017–2019)
• B.A. Liberal Arts in Social Sciences, Tallinn University (2023–Present)