Javid Aslanov

Tech Lead Infrastructure @Seven Senders

Berlin, DE

Tech lead for SRE, Platform, and DevOps at Seven Senders — a Berlin-based logistics SaaS powering last-mile shipment tracking for European e-commerce. Reliability & Scale- Shipped an event-driven AI Incident Management Platform on AWS Bedrock, cutting triage time by ~20%- Owned full lifecycle of a multi-cluster EKS estate. Delivered every Kubernetes upgrade and platform migration with zero customer-facing downtime- Hardened the Kafka/MSK data backbone, eliminating message loss during broker failure events. Developer Experience & Platform-as-a-Product- Architected a unified public API Gateway consolidating multiple backend services behind a single JWT-authenticated edge — serving ~1M requests/day. Migrated production traffic with zero downtime- Defined and rolled out org-wide Policy-as-Code standards in CI, enforcing reliability baselines across all services- Introduced and extended Backstage with custom plugins and supply-chain controls — self-service hub for ~50 engineers- Authored the internal \"Graceful Shutdown in Kubernetes\" standard, embedded into the new-service launch playbook. FinOps & Cost Engineering- Delivered 35% infrastructure cost reduction through Kubecost allocation, spot capacity, and a Topology-Aware Routing rollout that cut cross-AZ data-transfer by ~40-50%- Open-sourced an eBPF observability tool to quantify cross-AZ traffic and validate savings. AI / LLM Platform Ownership- Stood up the company\'s internal LiteLLM proxy as the single governed gateway for all LLM access — adopted by ~50 users across 8 engineering teams- Automated full LLM-platform user lifecycle via Lambda + DynamoDB Streams, replacing manual onboarding- Shipped the company\'s first internal AI agents (incident review, runbook automation), saving the SRE team several days per week.Tech stack: AWS (EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, MSK, Bedrock), Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Kafka, LiteLLM, Backstage, Python.