Peter Stukalov

Peter Stukalov is a DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering Build Fellow at Open Avenues Foundation, where he works with students leading projects in cloud infrastructure, automation, and GitOps practices.

Peter is a Senior DevOps Engineer at PayGears Corporation, where he designs and maintains a fault-tolerant Open Banking platform that has delivered 100 % service uptime for three consecutive years while meeting PCI DSS and SOC 2 standards through rigorous security automation.

Peter has over 15 years of experience in the DevOps/SRE field. Across fintech, manufacturing, e-commerce, and cybersecurity domains, he has built and scaled mission-critical systems, mentored engineering teams, and championed Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps methodologies.

He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering.

A fun fact about Peter is that he spends his weekends experimenting with high-power lasers and 3-D-printing custom optical hardware for side projects.