01 About — Infrastructure, automation, cloud

Senior DevOps Engineer and founder with 9+ years of experience. I design, automate and operate scalable infrastructure across cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments. Automation-first, infrastructure as code, mentoring.

9+ years · 1500+ servers · 2 companies · Automation-first · Infrastructure as code · Mentoring

02 Experience — Senior DevOps Engineer

Webnorth · Sep 2023 — present

CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, Docker and Terraform. Cloud infrastructure on GCP and Hetzner with MariaDB, ProxySQL, Redis, LiteSpeed and Nginx.

hours → min deploy time · Terraform · Docker · GitLab CI · GCP · Hetzner · MariaDB · Redis · Prometheus

03 Experience — Founder

SYNTHOS LABS · Apr 2025 — present / CLOUDPODZ LTD · Feb 2021 — Jun 2026

Software, automation tools and cloud infrastructure at SYNTHOS LABS. CLOUDPODZ: a VPS hosting platform for SMBs, developers and agencies — KVM virtualisation, automated provisioning, security hardening.

2 companies founded · VPS hosting platform · KVM · Linux · Automation · Security · DevOps · CI/CD · Cloud

04 Experience — DevOps Engineer

Devtech · Jul 2022 — Mar 2024

Datacenter automation with SaltStack, NAPALM and NOC-PS. Automated provisioning for servers and network switches at scale.

servers · switches automated · SaltStack · NAPALM · NOC-PS · Linux · Networking

05 Experience — Linux System Administrator

Sportradar · Oct 2018 — Jul 2022

Managed 1500+ Linux servers across GCP, Hetzner, Linode and on-prem. oVirt/KVM virtualisation, GlusterFS, SaltStack, Jenkins, MariaDB Galera, MongoDB. Mentored junior engineers.

1500+ linux servers · HA clusters uptime focus · Linux · GCP · SaltStack · oVirt · Jenkins · MariaDB · Grafana

06 Stack — Stack

Linux — Nginx · LiteSpeed · KVM · Proxmox — oVirt · GlusterFS · Kubernetes — Docker · Terraform — Ansible · SaltStack · AWS · GCP — Hetzner · Linode · GitLab CI — Jenkins · GitHub Actions · MariaDB · PostgreSQL — MongoDB · Redis · ProxySQL · Prometheus · Grafana — Zabbix · Graylog · Sensu

07 Blog — Latest writing

Sep 17, 2026 Hello World · First post on my new blog. Welcome to my corner of the internet.

08 Contact — Ping me

branimir@grbesic.com

Drop me a message — infrastructure, automation, or just to say hello. I'll get back to you.