wojtek@zygadlo.ca

© 2026 Voytek Zygadlo

Platform & AI Infra Engineer

Voytek Zygadlo.

I build developer platforms and the agentic AI layer on top of them. Lead DevOps at VidIQ — Kubernetes platform across 348 repos, a custom WAF operator, and a production fleet of AI agents the engineering team uses daily. Fintech background spanning PayPal, Hyperwallet, and PCI DSS environments.

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15+
Years
Building
Platforms

About.

Fifteen years across telecom, fintech, and SaaS — Nokia Siemens, Cisco, Hyperwallet, PayPal, Rocket Financial, and now VidIQ. I own platforms end to end: Kubernetes, AWS, security, FinOps, incident response, and the agent layer on top.

Founder of Openerra — consulting on platform engineering and AI infrastructure. Owner of zygadlo.ca and openerra.com. 12+ engineers at VidIQ route through me daily for platform, security, and AI infra decisions.

  • FocusPlatform engineering, security, AI infrastructure
  • CertificationCKAD — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (2021)
  • Scale348-repo org, 12+ engineers route through me daily
  • Open toSenior IC, EM, and consulting via Openerra

Kubeflare-light.

Custom Kubernetes operator for GitOps-managed Cloudflare WAF and rate-limit rules. Two CRDs, full OpenAPI v3 schemas, Helm chart. Production: 20+ WAF rules, 15+ rate limits, JA3 bot fingerprinting. Battle-tested against signup abuse, scraper bots, and card fraud.

BananaBoat.

AI-powered Grafana monitoring agent with secure read-only AWS access. Used in production by the engineering team for incident triage and metrics queries. Built on Claude with a strict evidence-first system prompt, no hallucinated metrics.

vidiq-infra.

Infrastructure backbone for a 348-repo org. 12 modular Terraform components (VPC, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, ECR, ElastiCache, CloudFront, S3, IAM, VPC peering, LB, Org), Helm charts, AWS monitoring, CI/CD. Clean separation between IaC, apps, and monitoring.

OpenClaw Agent Fleet.

Multi-agent orchestration system running a production fleet — main assistant, marathon coach, legal counsel, gardening agent, strategic co-founder, CPA. Persistent memory, cross-agent messaging, scheduled tasks. The substrate I use to test agentic patterns before shipping them at work.

Signup Abuse Defense.

Led investigation and response to a 3,000 fake-account abuse campaign. Forensics, IP and domain correlation, bot score analysis. Rolled out Cloudflare WAF rules, application-level rate limits, and JA3 fingerprint detection. Abuse traffic dropped to zero within 48 hours.

Experience.

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2024 — Present
VidIQ & Openerra

Lead DevOps Engineer — VidIQ
Effectively Staff/Principal Platform Security Engineer. Kubernetes (EKS), AWS, Terraform (12 modules), full staging environment ownership. Built Kubeflare-light, BananaBoat, vidiq-infra.

Founder — Openerra
Consulting on platform engineering and AI infrastructure. Owner of openerra.com and zygadlo.ca.

2022 — 2024
Rocket Financial

Director of DevOps & IT
Leadership across DevOps strategy and IT operations. Implemented IaC, CI/CD pipelines, PCI DSS compliance, cost-saving cloud strategies. Mentored junior engineers.

Architectural decisions for scalable service expansion. Led IaaS integration into DevOps strategy.

2020 — 2022
PayPal

MTS 2 Software Engineer, DevOps Cloud Engineer
Directed AWS to GCP cloud migration. Automation with Python, Ansible, Terraform. CI/CD environments. Hyperwallet acquired into PayPal org.

Mentored junior team members for career advancement. Reduced operational costs through process improvement.

2017 — 2020
Hyperwallet

DevOps Engineer / Sr Linux Admin
IaC for AWS/GCP and VMware. Fully automated cloud stack. Blue/Green deployments. 24/7 on-call. PCI DSS hardening.

Cross-team channels between dev, ops, QA. Vulnerability scans and patch automation.

2013 — 2017
Cisco Systems

Systems Engineer
OpenStack hybrid cloud. Nagios, ELK, Grafana monitoring. Python/Bash custom scripting. 2nd/3rd-level technical support.

Application performance analysis. Integration between on-premises and cloud resources.

2011 — 2013
Nokia Siemens

Software Integration Specialist
RedHat Linux, Tomcat, WebSphere, Oracle DB. 24/7 on-call. Designed test environments. NSN Femto Solution.

Internal training for customer teams. Core network management during Femto integration.

2006 — 2010
Education

BSc — Computer Systems & Networks

CKAD — Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (2021)

Stack & Tools.

The platform and AI infrastructure layer I work with daily. Production-grade, not slideware.

  • KubernetesKubernetes
  • AWS
  • TerraformTerraform
  • PythonPython
  • PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
  • CloudflareCloudflare
  • DockerDocker
  • GrafanaGrafana
  • AnthropicAnthropic
  • OpenClawOpenClaw
  • Hermes-AgentsHermes-Agents

Companies.

Fifteen years across telecom, fintech, and SaaS.

  • Lead DevOps 2024 — Present
  • Founder 2025 — Present
  • Director, DevOps & IT 2022 — 2024
  • MTS 2, DevOps Cloud 2020 — 2022
  • DevOps / Sr Linux Admin 2017 — 2020
  • Systems Engineer 2013 — 2017
  • Software Integration 2011 — 2013

Contact.

Hiring for a platform or AI infra role? Looking for consulting via Openerra? Let's talk.

Remote · available across timezones

Let's build something solid together.

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