Steve’s CV

YISHAYAHU (STEVE) BAR YAKOV GINDI

SENIOR DEVSECOPS ENGINEER | PLATFORM & MLOPS ENGINEER | CLOUD SECURITY

📧 steve@gindi.cloud | 📞 054-457-2366 | 🌍 LinkedIn Charmingsteve

Professional Summary

Senior DevSecOps, Platform and MLOps Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing, securing and operating Linux, cloud, Kubernetes and AI/ML infrastructure across cybersecurity, AI, healthcare and startup environments. Strong background in Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, security/compliance and production operations. Recent work includes GPU-enabled ML infrastructure, CUDA lifecycle management, RAG workflows, self-hosted/open-weight LLMs, private registries, OpenAI-compatible API routing, local LLM serving and controlled/offline infrastructure environments.

Core Expertise

·  AWS, Azure, GCP

·  Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm

·  GitOps, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD

·  DevSecOps, Vault, IAM, Compliance (SOC2, HIPAA)

·  Linux, Python, Bash, Monitoring, FinOps

Professional Experience

Lead DevSecOps Architect |  LLM Provost | 2026–Present

Creator of Agent Provost product and LLM Provost service, an AI governance and audit platform designed to bring security, compliance and observability to autonomous AI agents.

  • Designed a policy enforcement layer and immutable audit architecture for AI-driven workflows.
  • Built security-focused CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
  • Implemented OpenAI-compatible API routing patterns for AI agent traffic, including policy-based request handling and controlled proxy flows.
  • Used Ollama for local/self-hosted LLM serving and controlled inference workflows during AI platform development.
  • Implemented WORM-compliant audit logging and compliance-oriented infrastructure controls.
  • Applied specification-driven engineering, AI-assisted development and automated testing to rapidly deliver security and compliance features.

Infrastructure Engineer | Check Point Software | 2025–2026

  • Supported hybrid AWS, Azure and on-prem infrastructure environments.
  • Implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and Vault-integrated secrets management.
  • Built and operated enterprise virtualization and infrastructure platforms using Proxmox.
  • Improved infrastructure security through encryption, credential lifecycle automation and monitoring.
  • Worked across networking, storage, observability and platform operations.

DevOps Engineer | Coro | 2024–2025

  • Managed AWS EKS platforms using Terraform and GitOps processes.
  • Implemented GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Argo Workflows for Kubernetes-based deployment automation.
  • Operated MongoDB-backed services and supported database integration for production application workloads.
  • Automated secrets synchronization and Vault-based credential management.
  • Built and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  • Enhanced monitoring, alerting and operational visibility across Kubernetes workloads.

Senior DevOps Engineer | Lynx.md | 2023–2024

  • Built HIPAA-compliant cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
  • Improved security posture through automated vulnerability scanning and DevSecOps practices.
  • Implemented GitOps deployment methodologies and observability solutions.
  • Supported OpenSearch and Elasticsearch infrastructure for search, observability and data-access workloads.
  • Supported healthcare research environments requiring strong compliance controls.

Senior DevOps Engineer / MLOps | Datagen | 2020–2023

  • Designed and operated Kubernetes infrastructure supporting AI/ML workloads, RAG workflows and self-hosted LLM infrastructure.
  • Managed GPU platforms, CUDA lifecycles, GPU scheduling, GPU allocation, GPU telemetry and utilization for containerized ML environments.
  • Worked with open-weight and self-hosted LLMs, including Llama and Mistral, with model validation for controlled AI/ML environments.
  • Managed private registries and container image workflows for controlled AI/ML platform environments.
  • Used PySpark in data and ML infrastructure workflows supporting large-scale processing needs.
  • Implemented centralized identity and access management.
  • Led cloud cost optimization efforts and infrastructure modernization initiatives.

DevOps Engineer | Octopus Solutions | 2018–2019

  • Built and deployed private cloud solutions for telecom and banking clients using OpenStack and OpenShift.
  • Automated cloud infrastructure operations to improve reliability, repeatability and scalability.
  • Set up and administered on-prem GitLab and supported offline installation workflows in controlled customer environments.

Earlier Experience
DragonTail Systems – DevOps Engineer | BMC Software – Tech Lead, Unix/OpenVMS Support | Barzelan – System Administrator | VerticalNet / Tradeum – Unix Systems Administrator

Education & Certifications

BA Psychology â€“ SUNY Empire State College

Red Hat:

  • OpenShift Administration
  • OpenStack
  • Ceph Storage

Ansible Automation Additional Training: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps, Kubernetes Administration, Google Cloud Security, A Cloud Guru (300+ hours)