AMIBIOS (C) 1992 American Megatrends Inc.Pentium(R) CPU at 133MHzMemory Test : 65536K OKDetecting IDE drives ... Primary Master : WDC AC2340H Primary Slave : NoneHIMEM is testing extended memory... done.Starting MS-DOS...
ferroman@systems:~$ whoami
Bogdan Frankovskyi
Principal Platform Engineer · Kubernetes · Cloud · the whole pipeline
Two decades across the entire software lifecycle. I started by breaking software as a QA, then built it, scaled it to billions of data points a day, and now keep it reliable as a platform engineer. I think in systems — and I like the seams where they meet.
↓ scroll to travel forward through the decades — the shell reskins as you go · or jump with the switcher ↑
ferroman@systems:~$ ./career --visualize
MK-61 GAME OF LIFE
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program Life;10PRINT"HI*"begin20GOTO10writeln('*');30ENDend.READY._
The origin~ 1995school & the workbench DIY electronicsNorton Commander, DIY electronics, programming contests, and a first taste of code.
My one and only hardware project — and the one I'm proudest of. I started at the bench with a soldering iron and a QA checklist, grew into customer support, then partner coordination, and finally owned the product itself. Everything except writing the software — carried from a bare MVP to a device selling on the market.
QA & soldering
customer support
partner coordination
product owner
hardware bring-up
QA
support
partnerships
product
↳ learned from[ first name ] · Founder
“Ship the product, not the plan — talk to customers before you talk to code.”
[ first name ] · Hardware Lead
“There is no miracles in electronics - just bad connections”
UML CLASS DB SCHEMA
.---------. [users]--<[orders]
| Widget | id id
|---------| [items]--<[lines]
| render()|
'---------' 3D EMULATION
^ extends ____
.---------. / /|
| Button | /___/ | browser
'---------' | | / <html>_
|___|/ </html>
Seven years, one employer, many clients — the Ajax & IE6 era, when single-page apps were only just emerging on the first frameworks. Plain bash gave way to Vim and fish. Full-stack all the way: Django & Rails backends with jQuery / Backbone / CoffeeScript frontends — even a 3D pacifier designer for Baby-Nova — plus heavy data-viz for Compete.com, and eventually Big-Data pipelines at 25M req/hour.
clients:Compete.comBaby-NovaBurstworks
Python
Ruby / RoR
JS · Backbone
data-viz
Vim
↳ learned from[ first name ] · Tech Lead
“The simplest design that works usually wins — and how to say no to complexity.”
[ first name ] · Senior Engineer
“Tests are a design tool, not a chore — write the test you wish existed.”
Data Science2017 – 2020DataRobot ML platformBuilt and scaled the platform data scientists ran on — automated ML across AWS, GCE and bare-metal Kubernetes.
Senior Platform / SRE2020 – 2025CloverTech · Affinidi · CorvaReliability, IaC and Kubernetes across three companies — EKS platforms, decentralized identity at Affinidi, and a K8s migration + first SOC 2 at Corva (partnering with Baker Hughes).
AWS CDK
Terraform
Kubernetes
SRE
↳ learned from[ first name ] · Principal SRE
“Reliability is a feature — measure it, budget for it, and automate the boring parts.”
ARCHITECTURE SECURITY
[api]->[svc] .--[lock]--.
| \ | | zero-trust|
[svc]->[ db ] '----------'
INFRA PEOPLE
(~cloud~) [k8s] o o o
[tf][ci][gitops] /|\/|\/|\
everything... mentoring
Principal Platform Engineer2025 – nowScoutBytes · outstaff● now
Principal Platform Engineer, running platforms for several products at once — the whole pipeline, from cluster to CI to on-call.
building:EngageRocketBuddywiseTimepass
Kubernetes
AWS / GKE
Terraform
GitOps
ferroman@systems:~$ ls ~/projects
Corva
└─ wired into · DevOps / Platform
Migrated the core platform to Kubernetes (dozens of apps), ran on-prem installs for partners like Baker Hughes, and prepped the company for its first SOC 2 audit.
KubernetesOn-premSOC 2
Affinidi
└─ wired into · DevOps / Platform
Building blocks for a decentralized-identity ecosystem — large-scale AWS account management with full observability & configurable SSO.
AWS CDKTypeScriptProjen
DataRobot
└─ wired into · Data Science
Automated ML platform. Built a one-tool Kubernetes installer for AWS, GCE & bare-metal, with full install/update/removal lifecycle.
KubernetesPythonTerraform
Burstworks
└─ wired into · Software Engineer
US data broker. 25M requests/hour, ~1.5 TB/day — migrated Hadoop → Spark on Mesos and single-cloud → multi-cloud.
HadoopSparkAWSAzure
Compete.com
└─ wired into · Software Engineer
Web-traffic analytics for the top 1M sites (later acquired by TNS). 250k lines of Python: data-viz dashboards, i18n / l10n, integrations across data warehouses, and a test engine cut from 27 min to under 2 s.
PythonDjangodata-vizi18n
Meamagic · Baby-Nova
└─ wired into · Software Engineer
An early cross-platform single-page app with a 3D designer to customize goods — a pacifier configurator built back when browsers barely allowed it.
CoffeeScriptBackbone3D
DreamBox
└─ wired into · Product Manager · GSM Dream Team
A GSM phone diagnostic & repair device — hardware, software, and an online service, taken from MVP to sales.
HardwareQAProduct
SavvyClutch
└─ always running · since 2016
An engineering club I co-founded — writing on process, testing, code review, and infrastructure.