# Irena Abramchuk > Platform Engineering | DevOps | Infrastructure as Code | Automation Location: Greater Boston, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/irena Platform engineer with experience in automating infrastructure deployments, enhancing operational efficiency, and implementing Infrastructure as Code at scale. Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines and self-service capabilities, serving a technology community of 4000+ users across 5 different timezones. Additional areas of expertise include configuration management and cloud infrastructure. ## Work Experience ### Staff Cloud Engineer @ Handshake Jan 2024 – Present | United States ### Staff Engineer, Platform Engineering - Infrastructure Lifecycle & Orchestration @ Wayfair Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 • Established a paved path for cloud-native development, enabling developer teams to kickstart GCP projects through a single self-service action, under 15 minutes, and in compliance with Wayfair’s internal standards. • Led the migration from a centralized Terraform repository to decoupled on-demand IaC repositories. Solution included a boilerplate IaC code and Buildkite CI/CD pipeline that configured Terraform workspaces and provisioned infrastructure into GCP. Increased developer productivity by reducing pull request review time for deploying infrastructure changes by 67%. • Led the strategic implementation, deployment, and maintenance of Terraform Enterprise in GCP, a critical component in self-service enablement effort. Supported 3000+ workspaces and 4000+ developers. Deployment included Puppet and Terraform code for automated installation and upgrade, Datadog monitoring, custom Docker images enabling secure provider authentication for each run, cost transparency and ownership assignment with BigQuery, and automated cleanup procedures for abandoned resources. • Contributed to the successful rollout of the internal platform-as-a-service. This platform served over 11K executions with 35% engagement of technology employees in the first 6 months. • Developed one of the top 3 orchestration providers for the internal platform-as-a-service. This Go provider translated Terraform configurations into UI workflows for no-code deployments. • Authored and maintained a suite of Buildkite plugins, pipelines, and repository templates for bootstrapping and publishing Terraform providers, modules, and Sentinel security policies. • Acted as technical lead for a team of 4 outsourced engineers and 2 senior engineers. ### Sr. SRE Engineer, Infrastructure Platforms @ Wayfair Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Spearheaded the creation of a hybrid solution to unify infrastructure deployments between on-premise and GCP data centers. Reduced the deployment time for physical and virtual instances to minutes. • Designed a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline that allowed users to orchestrate deployments of infrastructure resources across disparate providers in a single commit; reduced operational burden and facilitated the migration to the cloud. • Developed 4 custom Terraform providers to automate the provisioning and management of diverse infrastructure components(storage and network, IP address management, and service account keys handling). Contributed to the open-source Terraform provider for GCP. • Collaborated with security team and automated security scans of image templates created by Packer in a customized Jenkins CI/CD pipeline. Reduced vulnerability detection time by 30%. • Delivered vendor-agnostic cost visibility solution using BigQuery, Jenkins, and Looker. Proposed infrastructure labeling standards and drove the adoption to 80%. • Deployed and operated Jenkins clusters serving all infrastructure deployments. ### Systems Engineer II, Infrastructure Engineering - Virtualization @ Wayfair Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 • Established continuous configuration consistency and compliance of 250+ ESXi hypervisors through implementing configuration management with Puppet. • Designed, tested, and automated ESXi network configuration, achieving higher levels of resiliency. • Led the automation of service-based VM templates using Packer, resulting in 25% reduction in template creation time. • Implemented a customized ESXi monitoring tool with ELK stack and Jenkins, leading to a 20% decrease in system downtime through proactive issue identification. • Maintained the stability and scalability of a vast virtualization environment, overseeing 6000+ VMs across 250+ hypervisors. ### Systems Engineer I, Infrastructure Engineering @ Wayfair Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Automated VMware ESXi hypervisor provisioning with PXE boot and Foreman, reducing the time to production by 70% and improving the system stability. • Engineered an internal Python-based tool for VMware virtual machine provisioning, enabling VM delivery in under 15 minutes. • Optimized initial virtual machine placement through a Python solution, ensuring runtime efficiency and performance. • Deployed and managed Nasuni file storage solution for distributed office locations. ### Network and Server Engineering Intern @ Wayfair Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Introduced a Python-based solution for dynamic VMware vSphere resource pool management. • Configured network switches and firewalls. Improved network monitoring leveraging Solarwinds. • Provisioned VMware ESXi hypervisors. ### Computer Lab Assistant @ University of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Information Technology UMass Boston ### Bachelor's degree in Linguistics Minsk State Linguistic University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/irena-abramchuk --- Source: https://flows.cv/irena JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/irena/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31