Mindia Tulashvili

• Platform & Cloud

  Architecting resilient multi-cloud production environments across AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and on-premise datacenters for high-availability gaming platforms.

• FinOps

  Owning enterprise-wide cloud cost governance through self-hosted FinOps platforms, right-sizing audits, and continuous waste elimination.

• Reliability & Observability

  Operating large-scale monitoring ecosystems with hundreds of dashboards, advanced alerting, and automated edge anomaly detection.

• AI Enablement

  Implementing multi-agent AI workflows, adversarial review loops, and automated quality gates for engineering delivery.

• 1,100+

  Alert rules and 500+ dashboards on one enterprise observability platform.

• 3

  Production and disaster-recovery sites: a second datacenter and a third DR site delivered for full high availability.

• 2

  New markets the gaming platform was prepared for (Uzbekistan, Romania): sportsbook, payments, mobile and desktop.

• 14K+

  Historical tickets turned into a 116-page operations library.

• 24

  Automated quality gates in an AI-governed delivery pipeline.

1. Oct 2025 – Present

   Head of Platform Engineering

   NextBilTech (Mansion Group)

   Leads platform engineering for a multi-brand online gaming and sportsbook group: 6 units (SRE, DevOps, CloudOps, DataOps, Network/NOC, Architecture) across 6 countries.

   15 highlights

   Leadership & operating model

   • Built a 4-level competency model (Junior to Lead) with per-unit skill matrices for hiring, promotion and upskilling.
   • Turned 14,000+ historical tickets into a 116-page operations library and a 13-week rollout plan.
   • Introduced document governance and knowledge-transfer and onboarding plans for SRE, Network, NOC, DevOps and CloudOps.
   • Led an on-site program for knowledge transfer, onboarding and a competency center, building 24/7 follow-the-sun coverage across 6 locations worldwide.
   • Led capacity architecture for a platform targeting 99.99% availability: 34 architecture decisions and a C4 model.

   FinOps & cloud cost

   • Owns FinOps governance across all brands on AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud and on-premise.
   • Took over the self-hosted FinOps platform (OptScale on EKS) and patched the full fleet with zero rollout failures.
   • Ran a right-sizing audit of cloud resources and a clean-up of idle clusters, disks and snapshots.

   Reliability & observability

   • Runs the enterprise observability platform: 500+ Grafana dashboards and 1,100+ alert rules.
   • Cut alert noise by 75%, bringing daily chat-ops alerts from about 945 to 240.
   • Built automated anomaly detection and self-healing monitors for the edge and CDN analytics platform.
   • Led FIFA World Cup 2026 war-room readiness: 104 matches, 6 production Kubernetes clusters, 5-minute P1 response.

   AI enablement

   • Leads AI adoption: AI coding assistants for engineering leads, multi-agent AI as the standard for audits, RCA, security review and documentation.
   • Designed a cross-vendor adversarial AI review loop (Claude and OpenAI Codex) in which each model catches what the other misses.
   • Defined an AI-governed delivery pipeline (design, build, independent verification, publish, retrospective) with 24 automated quality gates.

2. Feb 2025 – Sep 2025

   Chief Information Officer (CIO)

   Crocobet

   Directed DevOps, SysOps, NetOps, DBA, Data Engineering, and Application Support functions.

   3 highlights

   • Delivered a second production datacenter and third disaster-recovery site.
   • Implemented AI-driven incident management and troubleshooting.
   • Established Git-based Infrastructure as Code for all database schemas.

3. Jun 2023 – Jan 2025

   Transformation Lead

   Crocobet

   Eliminated vendor lock-in by acquiring platform source code and establishing in-house engineering ownership.

   3 highlights

   • Redesigned SDLC with DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD, and release governance.
   • Migrated monolith architecture to microservices and Kubernetes.
   • Founded the internal Data Engineering unit.

4. Jul 2022 – Jun 2023

   Location Head of Cloud Practice

   EPAM Systems

   Led a 340+ FTE practice across AWS, Azure, GCP, DevOps, SRE, and DevSecOps.

   3 highlights

   • Owned hiring, compensation ranges, people development, and project staffing.
   • Introduced technical career paths and upskilling programs.
   • Ensured SLA-compliant delivery for enterprise stakeholders.

5. Dec 2021 – Jul 2022

   Head of Application & Infrastructure Managed Services

   EPAM Systems

   Led a 40+ FTE team across infrastructure, DevOps, network, and application support.

   2 highlights

   • Led Windows, Linux, DevOps, Network, SRE and application teams.
   • Ran resource management, hiring and SLA-based service delivery.

6. Sep 2016 – Oct 2021

   Head of IT / CTO

   Crocobet

   Directed a 25+ FTE organization across infrastructure, development, and network operations.

   2 highlights

   • Delivered datacenter upgrades, DR deployments and platform modernization.
   • Managed partnerships with sportsbook feed and casino game providers.

Co-Founder & DevOps Engineer, BWise Solutions (GITA grant of GEL 100,000); Visiting Lecturer in virtualization, Business and Technology University; Head of IT at Caucasus Trust Bankers and Metro Avrasya Georgia; IT engineering and management roles since 2010.

Cloud & Platform

AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Argo CD, Terraform, VMware

Observability

Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Zabbix, New Relic, Sentry, Coroot, Graylog, ClickHouse

Network & Edge

Cloudflare, Imperva WAF, F5 BIG-IP, Palo Alto, HAProxy, Nginx

Data

PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Apache NiFi

AI & FinOps

Claude, Codex, LLM agents, AIOps, Python, OptScale, Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer

Beyond Work. Two-time national champion in parliamentary debate. Rugby and boxing tournament winner.