Hi, I’m Maruša. 👋
I’m not the biggest tech enthusiast in the room — and I’m fine with that. What drives me is trust. Trust that what I promised will get delivered. Trust that the system I built will hold. Trust that the team can rely on me when it matters.
The philosophy closest to me is you build it, you run it. If I’m shipping something to production, I need to understand it well enough to own what happens next. I take a bit more time to verify in a safe environment rather than rush and fix things under pressure — because production incidents are expensive in every sense, and I’d much rather prevent them.
Over the years I’ve touched a wide range of things: managing Linux and EC2 instances, setting up EKS clusters, working with alerts and monitoring, migrating workloads from on-premise to cloud, building CI/CD workflows, spinning up ephemeral environments, supporting dev teams, handling networking, and figuring out where the money goes.
Two things genuinely excite me.
Automation. There’s something deeply satisfying about watching manual, repetitive work disappear into a pipeline — knowing I’ll never have to do that by hand again and can put that energy somewhere more useful. Getting to know the tooling, solving problems on the fly, building something that just runs — I’ve found real joy in that.
Cost optimisation. By a set of circumstances this became a passion. There is a specific kind of satisfaction in finding the things quietly eating your AWS bill and fixing them. Watching a monthly invoice drop by thousands of euros you can now spend on something that actually matters — that never gets old.
Lately, AI has been everywhere — and I’d be foolish not to integrate it into my daily workflows, which I’ve been doing actively. I enjoy figuring out how much it can actually bring to the table when used right. That said, I have a strong opinion: like every tool, it needs to be used responsibly. In the wrong setup, with the wrong permissions, it can be destructive. I’m focused on how to use it with the right guardrails, especially in production environments.
I’m also adaptable. Over the years I’ve learned to approach tasks I’ve never done before — how to start when you don’t know where to start. And while infrastructure has been my main focus, I’ve picked up enough of the wider development cycle to get around beyond just infra when needed.
AWS · Kubernetes / EKS · Terraform · Helm · Argo CD · GitHub Actions · Docker · Grafana · Loki · Prometheus · OpenSearch · Azure · Python · Java