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 – 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)
