Nurdaulet Bolat
Nurdaulet Bolat (nvimq) — Senior DevOps & DevSecOps Engineer. Building resilient cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps and AWS, with a security-first mindset across CI/CD, IAM and secrets management.
// certifications
- Certified Calico Operator: eBPF — Tigera (verify)
- Cilium AI/ML Security — Isovalent (verify)
- Chaos Engineering — Gremlin (verify)
- OWASP Top 10 — Snyk (verify)
- Discovery: SecOps Engineer — Isovalent (verify)
- Go (Intermediate) — HackerRank (verify)
- SQL (Advanced) — HackerRank (verify)
- Docker Foundations Professional Certificate — Docker (verify)
- Ubuntu Linux Professional Certificate — Canonical (verify)
- Introduction to OSINT — Centri (verify)
- Introduction to Penetration Testing — Centri (verify)
- Kubernetes - Level 1 — KodeKloud (verify)
// Labs, Challenges & Rankings
- Architecture Builder Badge — LeetCode: A medal for building robust systems and software
- Data Navigator Badge — LeetCode: A symbol of glory in mastering data query and manipulation
- Cyber Apocalypse 2026 — HTB: Top 7.7% (#519 of 6,743)
- Project Euler+ — HackerRank: Top 0.02% (#49 of 256,473)
- Orchestrate Hackathon — HackerRank: Top 3.6% (#72 of 1,983, 72.9/100)
- Brutus — HTB
- CrownJewel-2 — HTB
- CrownJewel-1 — HTB
- Reaper — HTB
- Noxious — HTB
- Campfire-2 — HTB
- Campfire-1 — HTB
- Unit42 — HTB
- SecretPictures — HTB
- Web Attack Investigator — LetsDefend
- Linux Fan — LetsDefend
- Brute Force — LetsDefend
- Web Server Analyzer — LetsDefend
- MITRE ATT&CK — LetsDefend
- Web Hunter — LetsDefend
- Go Writer — LetsDefend
- Secure Network Designer — LetsDefend
- JWT Attacks and Detection — LetsDefend
- AWS CloudWatch — LetsDefend
- Physical Security — LetsDefend
- Red Team Hunter - 2 — LetsDefend
- PDF Analyzer — LetsDefend
- Browser Extension Analyzer — LetsDefend
- Phishing Analyzer — LetsDefend
- AWS Responder — LetsDefend
- AWS Incident Handler — LetsDefend
- Docker Forensics — LetsDefend
- macOS Malware — LetsDefend
- Discord Forensics — LetsDefend
- Golang Ransomware — LetsDefend
- AWS Bucketware — LetsDefend
- AWS Stacked — LetsDefend
- VoIP — LetsDefend
- USB Forensics — LetsDefend
- TinyTurla Backdoor — LetsDefend
- Samba Spy — LetsDefend
- Mac Backdoor — LetsDefend
- Hidden Backdoor — LetsDefend
- Google Cloud Compromise — LetsDefend
- Promptlock Ransomware — LetsDefend
- Learn Sigma — LetsDefend
- First Blood — LetsDefend
- MemLoot — LetsDefend
- K8s Runtime Security — TryHackMe
- After Hours — TryHackMe
- Infinity Pool — TryHackMe
- The Hollow Shell — TryHackMe
- CryptoCabana — TryHackMe
- Towel on the Sunbed — TryHackMe
- Do Not Disturb — TryHackMe
- Overheard at Breakfast — TryHackMe
- Beach Bar — TryHackMe
- Packed Light — TryHackMe
- Complimentary — TryHackMe
- Room 404 — TryHackMe
- The Concierge Knows Too Much — TryHackMe
- The Brochure — TryHackMe
- Learning Process — HTB: Philomath
- Introduction to Academy — HTB: Academician
- Linux Fundamentals — HTB: Our favorite seabird
- Web Requests — HTB: Your request is my demand
- Using the Metasploit Framework — HTB: Combine the modules
- JavaScript Deobfuscation — HTB: Playing with the mess
- Introduction to Active Directory — HTB: Your white belt training begins
- Getting Started — HTB: Your first battle
- Intro to Network Traffic Analysis — HTB: Lurk in the packets
- Setting Up — HTB: Start building your arsenal
- Vulnerability Assessment — HTB: Light in the dark
- MacOS Fundamentals — HTB: An apple a day...
- Web Fuzzing — HTB: Fuzzing guru
- Intro to Academy's Purple Modules — HTB: Purple navigator
- Introduction to Information Security — HTB: Cyber starter