Volodymyr Kuksa

Full-Stack Rust Platform Engineer · DevOps · Warszawa
Most engineers list technologies — I can show you a running platform. Since 05.2026 I single-handedly design, build and operate a production multi-site CMS ecosystem in Rust: ~250K lines of Rust, 6 Axum microservices, own K3s cluster with registry, TLS and observability. Hire me →

Proof of work — built & operated solo

Mayak CMS Platform

Multi-site headless CMS: WASM/Yew public sites and a 200-file admin control center, Axum BFF with session auth, PostgreSQL, media service with HLS pipelines.

rust · yew/wasm · axum · postgres

Self-managed K3s cluster

In-cluster container registry with pull-through cache, cert-manager with 15+ Let's Encrypt certificates, Prometheus/Loki/Vector observability, PostgreSQL CronJob backups, RBAC, Kustomize overlays, buildx builders.

k3s · traefik · cert-manager · prometheus

ExStudio block editor

Visual editor built from scratch: CRDT collaborative documents (yrs), isomorphic renderer (preview == artifact), signed .ex container format, E2E pipeline block → build → artifact → verify.

crdt · yrs · axum · e2e

Verification-first culture

Self-check system, 34 verify/debug scripts, baseline snapshots before edge changes, hotfix/rollback manifests, AGENTS.md runbooks learned from real incidents.

selfcheck · rollback · runbooks

Experience

Founder / Platform Engineer — Mayak ecosystem

05.2026 – present

Own product (ProdMedia, ExStudio). Full vertical: from PostgreSQL schema to production deployment and the pixel of a visual editor. 764 commits in the main repo over 14 weeks.

IT Infrastructure Engineer — Music99 / Music Trade

03.2026 – 07.2026

Hybrid environment: physical server, VPSes and WSL2 nodes in a Kubernetes/k3s cluster; WireGuard/OpenVPN, GitLab CI/CD, Vault, monitoring, backups; mail, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Redis.

Manual QA Tester — TVN Warner Bros. Discovery

09.2024 – 06.2025

VOD / Live TV / ad features on Android TV and mobile: ADB, logcat, Kibana, MUX, DAI; defect lifecycle in Jira with dev and product teams.

Co-founder / Software Engineer — KOTEC

03.2022 – 03.2024

Python/FastAPI + SvelteKit SaaS: CSV/XLSX → XML conversions for KRZ-K, Paynow payments, data model, tests, Linux deployments, Nginx.

Toolkit

RustAxumYew/WASM tokiogRPC/tonicCRDT/yrs Kubernetes/k3sDocker/buildxTraefik cert-managerHelm/Kustomize PostgreSQLPrometheus/Loki PythonGitLab CILinux WireGuardVault

Education & languages

Warsaw University of Technology — Telecommunications (B.Eng. in progress) Polski C1English B2 Ukrainian nativeRussian native

Contact

Email: v.kuksa@vlafvlaf.com · voff.kukca@gmail.com · Phone: +48 729 228 891 · GitLab: gitlab.com/voff.kukca
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