Lead DevOps &
Cloud Engineer
Kubernetes - Terraform - AWS - GitOps - Cloud Security
I get brought into high-stakes environments - a national telecom operator, a cybersecurity startup through its acquisition by Check Point - to single-handedly build the production-grade, zero-trust AWS and Kubernetes GitOps platforms that survive technical due diligence. Founder of Tara Vision, LLC and creator of taracode.
The Engineer Behind taracode
Dejan Stefanoski
Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Founder @ Tara Vision, LLC
I'm a Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer with a passion for building intelligent automation tools that simplify complex infrastructure challenges.
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, specialised in Cyber Defense, Computer Crime and Forensics, experienced in Cloud Computing & Infrastructure Services including but not limited to AWS Cloud, GCP as well as Cloud Native.
Most recently the sole DevOps and Cloud engineer at Cyclops Security through its acquisition by Check Point; earlier, the AWS lead for Telenor Sweden and multi-cloud landing zones for monday.com via OpsGuru.
Creator of денар.мкд - a mobile-first e-invoicing platform integrated end-to-end with the Macedonian tax authority (UJP), including qualified hardware-token e-signing. And taracode - an open-source (MIT), Go, fully local-LLM DevOps and cloud AI assistant CLI: 58 built-in tools, a 7-agent system, native MCP client support, and persistent project memory (no cloud, no telemetry).
With more than 15 years of professional experience programming, developing and deploying software across a variety of platforms using different tools and technologies.
I've worked and contributed on numerous projects from concept to completion, including architecture, analysis, project estimations and development operations while mentoring younger engineers, coding to consistently high standards and regularly refreshing skills staying always up to date with the ongoing trends and the latest technologies.
Core Technologies
Selected Engagements
Embedded lead delivering production cloud and Kubernetes platforms, contracted through Tara Vision, LLC.
Cyclops Security, a Check Point Company
Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer | GitOps-IaC
- Sole DevOps and Cloud engineer; single-handedly delivered the full platform roadmap (scoped for a 2-3 engineer team) in ~4 months, from zero to production.
- Designed and built a 2-account, 2-region AWS EKS GitOps platform: 9 reusable Terraform modules, 10 environment stacks (~6,800 lines of IaC), 6+ EKS clusters, ArgoCD app-of-apps delivery.
- Implemented fully keyless CI/CD with GitHub Actions OIDC (no static cloud credentials), plan-on-PR / apply-on-merge with environment gating; removed all bastion hosts and SSH (SSM Session Manager + IAM access entries only).
Telenor Sweden
AWS Lead Cloud Engineer & Cloud Architect | GitOps-IaC
- Owned the GitOps IaC platform for the entire telenor.se AWS estate (CloudFormation + Terraform) across a dev/test/stage/prod multi-account landing zone.
- Ran ~30 independent, keyless GitHub Actions pipelines federated via OIDC into 5 AWS accounts with zero long-lived credentials.
- Engineered shared-ALB traffic routing at scale: 110 host/path listener rules serving 4 product teams, with documented governance against AWS service limits.
monday.com via OpsGuru
Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer | Multi-Cloud Landing Zones
- Authored a 36-module reusable Terraform library (networking, security and governance, platform, data) consumed across multiple client landing zones.
- Built a hardened multi-cloud baseline: a 7-account AWS Organizations landing zone (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, IAM federation, isolated security/log accounts) and a GCP organization hierarchy with Shared VPC and VPC Service Controls.
- Delivered a self-service Internal Developer Platform (Port.io + GitHub Actions) with keyless Workload Identity Federation for on-demand GCP environment and cluster provisioning via GitOps.
E-Invoicing for Macedonia
A mobile-first e-invoicing platform for Macedonia, integrated end-to-end with the UJP e-Faktura government system. Issue, sign, and submit legally compliant electronic invoices - all from your browser.
DevOps & Cloud AI Assistant
Expert guidance for Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and multi-cloud. 58 built-in tools, 7-agent system, MCP client. Runs locally on a bring-your-own LLM.
Privacy-First PDF Toolkit
12 tools for PDFs. Local tools process in your browser. AI tools (OCR, Summarize, Translate, Chat, Rewrite, Generate) run on self-hosted servers.
Privacy-First Image Toolkit
12 tools for images. Standard tools process in your browser. Self-hosted AI for object removal, background removal, blending, restyling, and generation.
Core Competencies
Specialized skills across cloud engineering, DevOps automation, and machine learning.
Cloud Architecture & Cloud Engineering
Designing scalable, secure cloud solutions on AWS, GCP, and Azure. Migration planning and Well-Architected implementations.
DevOps & Software Engineering
CI/CD pipeline design, GitOps workflows, and automation. Kubernetes orchestration and Terraform infrastructure management.
Site Reliability Engineering
Monitoring, alerting, and observability. Ensuring system reliability with SLOs, SLIs, and incident management best practices.
Service-Oriented Architecture
Microservices design, API development, and event-driven architectures. Building maintainable, loosely coupled systems.
Enterprise Implementations
Large-scale system integrations, enterprise software deployments, and team leadership. From concept to production at scale.
Machine Learning & LLM Agents
Fine-tuning and deploying local LLMs, building intelligent AI agents for automation and RAG solutions on self-hosted infrastructure.
Professional Credentials
AWS Partner
Technical, Cloud Economics, Sales
Google Cloud
Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
Associate Cloud Engineer
EF SET English
C2 Proficient
Academic Background
To enrich knowledge, I attended two universities in Macedonia and successfully completed exchange program in the oldest private military college in the United States.
I strongly believe that the key to pursuing excellence is to embrace a long-term learning process. Eventually, growth comes at the expense of leaving the comfort zone via constant challenge to oneself trough knowledge and day-to-day practice.
Norwich University
Student Exchange Program
Norwich University - Northfield, Vermont USA
Major: Cyber Defense & Computer Crime and Forensics
University of Information Science & Technology
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, CSE
University of Information Science & Technology "St. Paul the Apostle" - Ohrid, Macedonia
Major: Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty of Technical Sciences
Computer and Information Sciences
Faculty of Technical Sciences, "St. Kliment Ohridski" University - Bitola, Macedonia
Major: Computer and Information Sciences, General