Nerea Kalandadze's Resume

Nerea Kalandadze

DevSecOps / SRE Lead

Barcelona, Spain, CET

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About

DevSecOps Lead and SRE Engineer leading teams to deploy, secure and operate reliable cloud infrastructure in providers like GCP and AWS using IaC tools like Terraform. I define DevSecOps strategy and standards, build CI/CD pipelines on native cloud products like CloudBuild and CodePipeline, and mentor engineers. I also have hands-on experience in cybersecurity, improving security in client environments and testing it against possible vulnerabilities.

Work Experience

Making Science

2026 - Present

DevSecOps / SRE Lead

  • Lead the DevSecOps practice, defining strategy, standards and best practices for secure and reliable cloud infrastructure across client and internal projects.
  • Mentor and coordinate a team of engineers, driving technical decisions, code reviews and delivery quality.
  • Own the security posture of client environments: threat modeling, IAM governance, hardening and incident response.
  • Architect and standardize IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while enforcing security and compliance.
  • Drive observability and reliability initiatives (monitoring, alerting, SLOs) and lead the On Call rotation.
  • Remote
  • Leadership
  • DevSecOps
  • GCP & AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Security
  • SRE

KaveTech

2025 - 2026

DevSecOps Engineer and Cibersecurity analyst

  • Lead in the adoption of IAC tools like Terraform to deploy and manage the company's infrastructure.
  • Lead the efforts to improve the security of the company's infrastructure, on premise servers, office security, etc.
  • Maintain and improve the company's Kubernetes Clusters.
  • Remote
  • IAC
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Python
  • Security
  • GCP
  • On Premise

Making Science

2023 - 2025

DevSecOps Engineer

  • Worked deploying, maintaining, securing, improving and monitoring cloud infrastructure orchestrated using Terraform and Ansible, both for clients and internal products of the company
  • Pentested and improved security in client environments, managing IAM and monitoring events.
  • Implemented monitoring and alert systems for client environments and participated in the On Call rotation.
  • Developed CICD pipelines and code delivery procedures.
  • Deployed and maintained cost optimized Kubernetes Clusters.
  • Developed AI solutions like chatbots, ad and Social Media content creators, and Marketing analysis tools
  • Remote
  • DevOps
  • GCP & AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Security

GIGAS Hosting

2022 - 2023

LV2 Support and Sysadmin

  • Offered advanced support for clients that were hired products and virtual machines that ran on KVM and Qemu. I helped them deploy software to the virtual machines like databases, ORM, CMS, and also helped them manage and maintain those products.
  • Improved the process and the software used for the virtual machines' orchestration, managing and disposition, reducing downtime and improving its performance
  • Improved security in internal software used for daily internal tasks like accounting and VM and infrastructure management
  • Sysadmin
  • Linux
  • KVM
  • Qemu
  • Virtualization
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Security
  • Own Cloud

Typsa

2022 - 2022

Fullstack Developer and DevOps

  • I migrated an old on premise set of microservice to GCP improving security and reliability of the services. Creating development, preview and production environments and improved the code delivery process, reducing code issues and downtime
  • I developed a CICD pipeline using Jenkins, so developers could deploy new versions of the services.
  • I reworked and secured the company Active Directory and solved the present security issues.
  • I developed a IAM, onboarding and developer access management system to make permission management easier and more secure, and dispositions of accounts for new employees.
  • DevOps
  • Onprem to Cloud
  • CI/CD
  • AD
  • Security
  • GCP

Education

ULL

2016 - 2020
Computer Science Degree

CESUR

2020 - 2022
Game Dev Professional Course

Certifications

Cloud Architect

2025 - 2028
Amazon Web Services

Cloud Architect

2025 - 2028
Google Cloud

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Team Lead
  • DevSecOps
  • DevOps
  • GCP & AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Security
  • On Premise
  • CI/CD
  • AD
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Virtualization
  • Qemu
  • KVM
  • Pentesting
  • AI
  • SecOps
  • SRE
  • Sysadmin
  • RedTeam
  • BlueTeam