Serhii Matiushchenko is a Senior Technical Leader with over 20 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, cloud platform operations, and team leadership. He specializes in driving large-scale automation, improving system reliability, designing scalable cloud architectures, and delivering measurable cost and performance improvements across enterprise environments.
Serhii Matiushchenko currently serves as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce (February 2025 to Present). In this role, he focuses on infrastructure optimization, Kubernetes operations, security, and reliability engineering for Data Cloud environments. He led an infrastructure cost optimization initiative that reduced the AWS account footprint by 50% and cloud spend by approximately 25%, drove fleet-wide OS migrations with zero downtime, and managed complex Kubernetes platform operations including rolling upgrades and node failure resolutions. He also spearheads security uplift programs and designs automated multi-stage disaster recovery pipelines to ensure continuous service availability.
Prior to that, Serhii Matiushchenko worked as a DevOps Team Lead at Zoomin Software Inc. (January 2023 to February 2025), where he led infrastructure strategy and built CI/CD pipelines to streamline software releases. He successfully achieved a 30% reduction in AWS costs through resource rightsizing and architecture improvements, conducted extensive code reviews, and proactively identified risks to reduce system outages and strengthen overall operational practices.
From April 2013 to December 2022, Serhii Matiushchenko held the role of DevOps Technical Lead at Ciklum LLC. He led a team of up to eight DevOps engineers, establishing Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform and Ansible, and reducing manual workload through CI/CD automation with Jenkins and GitLab CI. He drove cloud and container adoption utilizing Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher, while also managing enterprise networking infrastructure and multi-site connectivity using Cisco and HP equipment. Furthermore, he designed internal training programs and mentored junior engineers to foster team growth.
From October 2002 to March 2013, Serhii Matiushchenko served as the Head of the IT Department at LEMMA JSIC, leading a team of system administrators and technical support engineers. He modernized the corporate network by implementing a Cisco-based core architecture, built a distributed city-wide fiber network, and migrated core Active Directory servers to improve stability and security. He began his technical career as a Methodist in the Information Management Department at the Kharkiv Academy of Physical Culture and Sports (September 2001 to May 2002), managing Windows domain servers, upgrading network connectivity, and providing technical support and computer literacy training for students and faculty.
Serhii Matiushchenko holds a Specialist Diploma (Bachelor’s and Master’s equivalent) in Physical Education and a Master’s Degree in Sports Management from the Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture (1997 to 2002). He holds multiple professional certifications, including Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching, and Exasol Certified Operations Engineer. He is also a professional member of the IEEE and the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT).
His technical expertise spans AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, container platforms, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD methodologies, and enterprise networking. He is highly proficient in systems administration, site reliability engineering, access management, and vulnerability remediation across diverse development and production environments.