TOBIASZ GLEBA

DevOps Engineer & Platform Architect
Warsaw, Poland +48 504 519 244 tobiasz.gleba24@gmail.com github.com/tobiasz-gleba
Tobiasz Gleba

Executive Summary

5+ years of experience building scalable, cloud infrastructure. Expert in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, Kubernetes, and modern GitOps workflows. Interested in AI-driven automation and cost-efficiency, creating self-scaling systems that slashing cloud budgets, while accelerating deployment velocity.

Technical Skills

CLOUD & ORCHESTRATION
Azure GCP Cloudflare Kubernetes Helm & Kustomize Linux Docker & compose
IaC & CI/CD
Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) FluxCD (GitOps) Azure DevOps GitLab GitHub
DEVELOPMENT & OBSERVABILITY
Python (FastAPI, PydanticAI) Svelte NoSQL SQL Prometheus/Grafana Elastic Stack

Languages

English (C1 - Professional) Polish (Native)

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) Terraform Associate (003) Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)

Professional Experience

Independent Consultant

Apr 2025 – Dec 2025
Hybrid
  • Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Designed a unified IaC foundation utilizing GCP and On-Premises resources, enabling the rapid deployment of internal apps. Mentored the dev team on FastAPI best practices, ensuring code quality standards.
  • Fleet Telemetry: Engineered a fleet management system integrating GPS telemetry to automate maintenance scheduling based on vehicle mileage, eliminating manual tracking errors.
  • Logistics Automation: Orchestrated company-wide automations and migrations for the implementation of SoloPlan TMS, specifically tailored for high-compliance ADR radioactive transport.
  • Backoffice Engineering: Developed automated backoffice solutions and a custom CRM, streamlining internal data operations, that enabled the company to scale its operations by 2x this year.
  • AI & Production: Deployed AI-driven services including an automated research agent for tunarybki.pl and a task summary platform (asyncstatus.com).
  • Custom CRM solution: Designed and implemented a custom platform to track prospective student leads and monitor tuition payments, automating financial compliance and improving conversion rates.
  • AI Research Infrastructure: Architected a containerized, GPU-accelerated local research environment using IaC and the NVIDIA Linux Toolkit.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Mar 2023 – Mar 2025
Remote | Accenture Contract
  • HPC Platform Optimization: Architected a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment on AKS for an air-pollution monitoring SaaS. Fine-tuned node pools for compute-intensive weather modeling, allowing the company to run legacy models on modern infrastructure.
  • Zero-Touch GitOps: Implemented FluxCD to reconcile clusters, networking, and PaaS add-ons. Achieved "ClickOps-free" infrastructure where 100% of the environment is defined in Terraform and GitLab.
  • Security & Networking: Managed end-to-end provisioning of secure Azure resources (Private Networking, SQL, Storage) ensuring strict compliance for public-sector clients.
  • Legacy Modernization: Modernized legacy Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes by maintaining and refactoring Jenkins pipelines, executing critical migration scripts to align with modern DevOps best practices.
  • Stack Improvements: Standardized the monitoring and ingress stack using Grafana, Traefik, and k8up, creating a robust framework for the SaaS platform.

DevOps Engineer

Nov 2022 – Mar 2023
Poznań, Poland | Inetum Contract
  • Project Delivery: Delivered a complete Azure IaC platform for a solar energy optimization startup within a strict 5-month deadline, including secure Private Links for Azure AI Studio integration.
  • Cost Optimization: Conducted a comprehensive cloud audit, implementing rightsizing and spot instances to reduce monthly cloud spend by about ~25%.
  • Registry Migration: In a legacy environment, executed a zero-downtime migration of the Harbor container registry and imported unmanaged legacy infrastructure into Terraform state.

Junior DevOps

Sep 2020 – Sep 2022
Poznań, Poland | eFitness
  • Cloud Transformation: Spearheaded the "Lift & Shift" migration of 10+ legacy services from on-premises Windows VMs to containerized Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure App Services.
  • High-Availability Scaling: Solved critical downtime issues during gym peak hours (4 PM - 6 PM) by implementing Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA), handling traffic spikes of 300% without degradation.
  • Developer Experience: Automated Cloudflare DNS and microservice provisioning via Terraform and templated pipelines, reducing the "Time-to-Hello-World" for new services from days to minutes.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Implemented ELK stack for log aggregation and monitoring, creating dashboards for system status and APM.
  • AKS IaC platform: Modernized the DevOps in the company, introduced YAML pipelines, modularized Terraform code and introduced containers to the daily use.
  • Legacy infrastructure support: Supported the legacy windows VMs infrastructure during the transition to the new platform.
  • ESX on-premises servers installation: Installed ESX on-premises servers to repatriate workloads, preventing vendor lock-in and cutting cloud costs.

Projects & Interests

Dev Tools & SaaS

Built asyncstatus.com (AI task summary platform) and sprawdzaniekierowcow.pl (SvelteKit), an open-source driver license monitoring system.

Aviation

Fulfilling a lifelong dream and passion for aviation (PPL(A) in progress).

Interests

Investing, ADR Logistics, and experimenting with Modern AI agents for infrastructure automation.