Currently Lead DevOps @ VidIQ · Open to fractional engagements

Voytek Zygadlo.
Platform & AI infra engineer for teams that ship.

15+ years building production systems across telecom, fintech, and SaaS. Kubernetes, AWS, security, AI infrastructure. Based in BC, Canada.

Chilliwack, BC Available Q4 2026 CKAD certified

Products I've built and run in production.

Not toys. Systems that handle real traffic, get paged at 3 AM, and survive scrutiny.

Four practices. One operator.

Senior platform work, delivered through Openerra. Pick the slice you need.

A few things I'm proud of.

Stopped a 3000-account signup abuse incident

VidIQ · 2025

Led forensics, IP/domain correlation, and bot-score analysis. Built JA3-fingerprint bot detection and Cloudflare WAF rules that now block the same pattern in <100ms at the edge.

Built a custom k8s operator for Cloudflare WAF GitOps

VidIQ · 2024

Two CRDs, full OpenAPI v3 schemas, Helm chart. 20+ WAF rules and 15+ rate limits managed declaratively in production. Cut WAF change lead time from days to minutes.

Designed a production multi-agent ops platform

VidIQ · 2025

BananaBoat reads Grafana, summarizes alerts, and proposes fixes via PR. Reduced first-touch time on infra alerts; team trusts it enough to skip the dashboard.

Directed AWS → GCP cloud migration

PayPal · 2020–2022

Migration of a financial services platform under PCI DSS scope. Python, Ansible, Terraform. Zero outages on cutover.

Where I've been.

Poland → UK → Canada. Telecom → fintech → SaaS. 15+ years.

2024 — present
Lead DevOps Engineer · VidIQ (remote, BC)
2022 — present
Director of DevOps & IT · Rocket Financial
2020 — 2022
MTS 2 Software Engineer / DevOps · PayPal
2017 — 2020
DevOps Engineer / Sr Linux Admin · Hyperwallet (Vancouver)
2013 — 2017
Systems Engineer · Cisco Systems (UK)
2011 — 2013
Software Integration Specialist · Nokia Siemens Networks (Poland)

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