Ayan Nurbolat

Technical Lead | Solutions Architect | DevSecOps

Salary / Daily rate

Astana, Kazakhstan

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

DevOpsSite reliability engineeringCompliancePower AppsPySparkHadoopscikit-learnTomcatDjangoFlaskWordPressDrupalBlockchainData EngineeringDeep LearningAnsiblePower BI.NETAngularReact NativePythonTerraformServiceNowGrafanaTensorFlowPHPLaravelJavascriptCSSBootstrapIonicMySQLMongoDBGitGitLabSeleniumRubyPostgreSQLDockerAgile CoachingScrumKanban

Languages

Kazakh (Native)Russian (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

Technical Lead with 11+ years delivering enterprise-scale solutions on Microsoft Azure. Hybrid leader and hands-on DevOps/DevSecOps engineer specializing in secure CI/CD automation, Azure platform architecture, and cloud security hardening. Proven track record modernizing legacy applications, building real-time OT/data platforms (including AVEVA/OSIsoft PI Historian ecosystems), and embedding compliance-by-design for highly regulated industries such as oil & gas.

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Work experience

Tengizchevroil

Jun 2019 - Present

7 years 5 months

Astana, Kazakhstan

Technical Lead, Corporate Program

Oct 2025 - Present

1 year 1 month

Astana, Kazakhstan

• Led delivery of a corporate Kazakh Content (KC) Reporting & Analytics Portal, improving transparency, governance, and regulatory compliance across services, works, and materials. • Coordinated delivery across multiple stakeholders, including Finance, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Procurement, ensuring alignment of business, regulatory, and technical requirements. • Automated mandatory Ministry of Energy (MoE) Kazakh Content reporting, eliminating ~600 hours of annual manual effort through automated data aggregation and validation. • Delivered real-time KC performance monitoring and forecasting dashboards, enabling departments to track KC targets and support management decision-making. • Integrated enterprise systems (SmartGEP, JD Edwards, Anaplan) via ADF-based ELT pipelines to deliver a centralized, auditable data platform, built using .NET, Angular, and Microsoft Azure, with secure access via Azure SSO and Okta for both internal users and external business partners.

Technical Lead, Security Digital Initiatives

Jun 2024 - Oct 2025

1 year 5 months

Astana, Kazakhstan

• Led three teams within the Corporate Product Line, owning delivery and operational readiness for 40 products with strong compliance, reliability, and stakeholder alignment. • Designed and delivered a real-time security incident management platform to ingest and correlate incidents from security teams, surveillance systems, and access-control logs, integrating a mobile app to accelerate response at manufacturing sites. • Automated 100% of CI/CD pipelines, integrating SAST/DAST security scanning to ensure compliance with security standards, reducing deployment time by 40%, and eliminating manual errors. • Implemented secure deployment automation across environments using ARM templates for Azure Functions and Ansible roles for server provisioning/configuration; previously leveraged Terraform for server provisioning and infrastructure standardization. • Secured APIs in Azure API Management using OAuth 2.0 (Okta & Entra ID) with validate-jwt (aud) and RBAC, enforced TLS/mTLS, protected public endpoints with Azure Front Door WAF, and enabled database compliance with Azure SQL Audit Groups and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). • Technologies: Azure PaaS, Azure API Management (APIM), Azure Functions, Logic Apps (ARM Templates), WebJobs, .NET, Angular, React Native, Power BI, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Ansible Roles, Azure SQL, Azure GHAzDO, ServiceNow, Netsparker, Okta, Lenel OnGuard API, Azure Front Door (WAF), Application Insights, Azure Load Testing, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake.

Technical Lead, Production Optimization Product Line

Oct 2021 - Jul 2024

2 years 10 months

Astana, Kazakhstan

• Led 30+ Developers, Business Analysts, and QA Engineers, managing Program Increment (PI) delivery across five teams by streamlining feature creation, estimation, and execution tracking in Azure DevOps. • Led multi-million-dollar modernization programs, defining and executing a roadmap for system upgrades, OS migrations, and the migration of 20+ applications and 110 servers to Azure, including mission-critical real-time systems, using Waterfall and Agile delivery models (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban). • Delivered GHG and AEMS digital initiatives (operational/environmental domain), bridging engineering requirements with hands-on implementation teams to provide reliable, compliant reporting and analytics capabilities. • Ensured security, continuity, and operational compliance by maintaining and annually updating Engineering Standards, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans, Service Level and Operational Level Agreements, and Support Models. • Owned application support and reliability for enterprise systems, resolving 2,000+ ServiceNow tickets/incidents while achieving 99.6% uptime by implementing real-time monitoring and alerting with SolarWinds and Grafana, and streamlining triage and escalation. • Improved security posture through continuous vulnerability management, running regular scans with Tanium, Netsparker, and SonarQube. • Technologies: Windows Server, Azure IaaS/PaaS, Siemens XHQ, Honeywell Experion PKS, Python, Azure SQL, MS SQL, Oracle, Ansible Playbooks, Azure DevOps, Azure Data Factory (ADF), OSISoft/Aveva PI DA, PI AF, PI UFL Connector, PI Manual Logger, PI Vision, WinCC OA, SmartSignal, PlantTriage, Power BI, SEEQ, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake.

Software Engineer, Real-Time Data Foundation

Jun 2019 - Oct 2021

2 years 5 months

Atyrau, Kazakhstan

• Built and operated mission-critical real-time production systems aligned with Chevron/TCO engineering and technology standards. • Architected and delivered an automated conversion tool to migrate 5000+ HMI screens (Base Business and Future Growth Project) to Siemens XHQ. • Technologies: Windows Server, Internet Information Services, Siemens XHQ, Honeywell Experion PKS, Python, Selenium, PowerShell, Power Apps, Power BI, Azure SQL, MS SQL, Oracle, Ansible Playbooks, Azure DevOps, OSISoft/Aveva PI DA, PI AF, PI UFL Connector, PI ML, PI Vision, WinCC OA.

Senior Software Engineer, Big Data Engineering

Artillegence

Nov 2018 - May 2021

2 years 7 months

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Designed a real-time data processing system from social networks and 500+ news sites, with implemented machine learning algorithms for tone analysis and category classification based on Russian and Kazakh datasets. • Technologies: Ubuntu Server, PySpark, Hive, Hadoop, Scikit-learn, Selenium, Crontab, Power BI, Bash, GitLab.

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Academy of Preventive Medicine

Jun 2018 - Jul 2019

1 year 2 months

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Led the development of 10+ projects, including web/mobile applications, API integrations, deep learning (breast cancer, COPD). • Technologies: Ubuntu, Apache Tomcat, NGINX, Docker, Python (Django, Flask), TensorFlow, PHP (Laravel, Kohana), JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, Bootstrap, Materialize CSS, PhoneGap, Ionic, MySQL, MongoDB, Bash, Git, Trello.

Co-Founder, Full-Stack Software Engineer

Moving.Support

Jun 2018 - May 2019

1 year

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Created a web platform with an integrated computer vision algorithm that generates in-house moving orders. • Technologies: Ubuntu Server, Apache 2, PHP (Slim), Python, TensorFlow, JavaScript, CSS, MySQL, CertBot, Trello.

Blockchain Developer

UNICEF Innovation Lab

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

1 year 1 month

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Built an e-voting system using smart contracts and a drug supply chain management system using Hyperledger Fabric.

Ruby Developer

Crypto Exchange

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

1 year 1 month

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Developed a telegram bot to provide accounting and transactional services in Bitcoin & Bitcoin Cash for 150+ daily users. • Technologies: Ubuntu Server, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Bitcore, Bitcoind, JSON-RPC.

Software Development Instructor

International Information Technologies University

Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

2 years 1 month

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Prepared lesson plans and instructional materials for 100+ students of STEM and web development courses at IT school.

Software Developer

Epigraph

Jan 2017 - Jan 2017

1 month

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Developed 20+ electronic books equipped with multimedia systems and an electronic testing system to assess the students.

PHP Developer

Freelancer

Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

2 years 1 month

Kazakhstan

• Designed and deployed 60+ small projects as a freelancer, including WordPress/Drupal plugins, eCommerce, and web applications.


Education

Quantic School of Business and Technology

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools

High School Diploma, Computer Science

Abay Myrzakhmetov Kokshetau University

Master of Engineering and Technology, Information Systems

International Information Technologies University

Bachelor of Engineering and Technology, Information Systems


Licenses & certifications

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional

Issued: –

Certified by Oracle

Visualizing PI System Data

Issued: –

Certified by OSIsoft

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