About
Andrey Lesnikov
Senior DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect at CONTACT Software GmbH building production AI infrastructure with Kubernetes/EKS, GitOps, observability, Terraform, and AI gateways. Cloud Native Rockstars 2026 Company Award, 3rd place.
- Positioning
- Senior DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect / AI Platform Architect
- Current role
- Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer, CONTACT Software GmbH
- Focus
- AI infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS, GitOps, Terraform, observability, cloud architecture, platform engineering.
- Recognition
- Cloud Native Rockstars 2026 Company Award, 3rd place
Recognition
Andrey Lesnikov, Senior Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer at CONTACT Software GmbH, was listed 3rd in the Company Award category. Official source: https://www.cloudnativeconference.de/cn-rockstars-2026.
Speaking and public appearances
- Cloud Native Rockstars 2026 — Company Award finalist, 3rd place — CONTACT Software GmbH
- Cloud Native Conference Frankfurt 2026 — Cloud-native systems, GitOps, and platform operations
- Fourier AI talks — AI infrastructure, automation, and production readiness
Architecture case studies
- Automatic SaaS Restore System
- Cloud-Native AI Gateway
- Kanister Backup Restore
- GitOps ArgoCD Flux
- SBOM Integration
- LLM Infrastructure Runtime
- RAG Knowledge Platform
- EKS Platform Foundation
- OpenTelemetry Observability Mesh
- SLO Driven Monitoring
- Multi Region GitOps
- Terraform Platform Modules
- ArgoCD App of Apps
- Policy as Code Guardrails
- Secrets and Certificate Automation
- Incident Runbook Automation
- Self Healing Infrastructure
- AI DevOps Labs Platform
- Developer Platform Interface
- Cost and Token Observability
- FleetDM Endpoint Visibility
- Zero Trust Service Mesh