Monday, August 17, 2026

My Resume: Performance, Capacity, Cloud & FinOps Consulting

IGOR A. TRUBIN

Performance, Capacity, Cloud & FinOps Consultant

TrubinIgor@gmail.com  |  240-486-6170

Available for short-term consulting, advisory, assessments, and specialized project engagements

CONSULTING VALUE

Senior specialist in computer systems/application performance, enterprise capacity management, AWS migration and cloud capacity, FinOps rightsizing, and statistical exception-based modeling. Creator of SETDS for anomaly/outlier/change/trend detection and business-driver forecasting, with an implementation available through the Perfomalist web app and API.

CORE CONSULTING EXPERTISE

Systems & Application Performance — performance analysis, troubleshooting, workload characterization, SLA analysis, stress/load-test support, JVM memory analysis and rightsizing.

Data Center Capacity Management — compute, storage, database and application capacity; business-demand forecasting; exception-based reporting; capacity-risk assessment.

AWS Migration & Cloud Capacity — on-prem to AWS sizing, workload forecasting, post-migration optimization, capacity limits/utilization, and exception-based cloud capacity management.

FinOps & Rightsizing — AWS EC2, RDS, EBS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, ElastiCache, GPU workloads, plus JVM memory rightsizing and custom cost/utilization analytics.

SETDS / Statistical Analytics — anomaly, outlier, change-point and trend detection; seasonality; statistical process control; forecasting; business-driver correlation; proactive risk detection.

Model Factory — large-scale automated model generation, evaluation and selection for business-driven infrastructure/database forecasting.

MODERN TOOLS & METHODS

Cloud / FinOps

AWS: EC2, RDS, EBS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, ElastiCache, Auto Scaling, GPU; CloudHealth; custom rightsizing analytics

Analytics / BI

Python, Pandas, R, Amazon QuickSight; time-series/statistical modeling; queuing theory

AI-assisted work

Claude Code, Gemini, ChatGPT/OpenAI — intensive use for Python development, data analysis, modeling, automation, research, documentation and rapid prototyping

Observability

Datadog, New Relic, Splunk; APIs; Docker; cloud microservices

SELECTED PROOF POINTS

Supported Capital One sizing and migration to AWS; developed exception-based cloud capacity approaches using SETDS, business drivers, AWS capacity data, and cloud optimization tooling.

Engineering lead for OptiCloud cloud cost optimization/rightsizing; CMG IMPACT Innovation Award, 2022.

SETDS deployed across 20,000+ distributed servers plus mainframe, database, virtualization and cloud environments.

Led Model Factory work modeling 10,000+ servers and 1,000+ databases; granted U.S. patent on modeling computer resource metrics; related proactive cloud workload management patent pending.

Developed predictive capacity models delivering more than $1M/year savings in a major enterprise environment.

BACKGROUND

Capital One Bank — IT Manager / Lead Data Engineer / Product Owner (2013–Present). Earlier enterprise consulting and capacity/performance roles with IBM Global Services, SunTrust, A.P. Møller–Mærsk and major financial-services clients.

Ph.D. in Robotics — St. Petersburg State Technical University  |  AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner & Solutions Architect  |  Author of 50+ technical papers/whitepapers


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He started in 1979 as IBM/370 system engineer. In 1986 he got his PhD. in Robotics at St. Petersburg Technical University (Russia) and then worked as a professor teaching CAD/CAM, Robotics for 12 years. He published 30+ papers and made several presentations for conferences related to the Robotics and Artificial Intelligent fields. In 1999 he moved to the US, worked at Capital One bank as a Capacity Planner. His first CMG.org paper was written and presented in 2001. The next one, "Exception Detection System Based on MASF Technique," won a Best Paper award at CMG'02 and was presented at UKCMG'03 in Oxford, England. He made other tech. presentations at IBM z/Series Expo, SPEC.org, Southern and Central Europe CMG and ran several workshops covering his original method of Anomaly and Change Point Detection (Perfomalist.com). Author of “Performance Anomaly Detection” class (at CMG.org). Worked 2 years as the Capacity team lead for IBM, worked for SunTrust Bank for 3 years and then at IBM for 3 years as Sr. IT Architect. Now he works for Capital One bank as IT Manager at the Cloud Engineering and since 2015 he is a member of CMG.org Board of Directors. Runs UT channel iTrubin