Network Infrastructure TPM
End-to-end program ownership from intake through delivery, validation, and operational handoff across multi-team, multi-vendor environments.
Exploring select opportunities in AI infrastructure and network capacity
Evgenii
Protcenko
Technical Infrastructure Program Manager delivering hyperscale backbone capacity — including for AI and large-scale compute infrastructure — and building the tooling that speeds its delivery.
Delivered hundreds of Tbps of hyperscale backbone capacity and eight figures in documented infrastructure savings, leading programs end-to-end from intake through cross-functional execution to operational handoff.
At AWS since 2016
PMP Certified
Ph.D. Engineering
Terrestrial & subsea backbone
Prefer email? Reach me at cv [at] protcenko.com.
Professional Profile
I solve operational problems at the intersection of infrastructure and software — using code as a lever to make programs run faster and more reliably. At AWS since 2016, I progressed from hands-on data center engineering to leading global backbone capacity programs, continually improving the way I worked by building the processes, applications, and automation that let program managers and engineering teams execute at greater scale.
What I bring to every program
Backbone delivery
Hyperscale backbone capacity programs spanning terrestrial and subsea infrastructure, driven end-to-end through a multi-stage delivery lifecycle from intake to turn-up.
Systems integration
Connecting provisioning, operations, field execution, and applications into a single reliable delivery workflow. Operational troubleshooting from physical layer to program level.
Operational applications
Removed manual, multi-system workflows and gave the team faster, more reliable program execution — through production-grade internal applications built, shipped, and maintained independently while carrying a full-time TPM load.
Cross-functional execution
Managed hundreds of coordination channels, a footprint of thousands of tickets, and many engineering and operations teams alongside external carriers — operational throughput at org scale.
Cost optimization
A documented track record of taking cost out of infrastructure — rack-density redesign, equipment recovery, fiber innovation, facility optimization, and leased-to-owned circuit migration that retires recurring carrier spend.
Selected impact
Hundreds of Tbps
Backbone capacity delivered — cumulative
Multi-terabit backbone deliveries across dozens of global sites over the past two years, with a substantial multi-stage delivery pipeline in flight.
Current role
Six figures
Recurring cost eliminated + active pipeline
Recurring monthly carrier charges retired through leased-to-owned optical circuit migrations, with further migrations in the pipeline.
Current role
Multi-million
Total documented savings
Principal components: equipment RMA recovery, facility and cabling optimization, recurring savings through fiber innovation, and network design influence.
Edge Data Center Operations · 2020–2024
Eight figures
Rack-density redesign savings
Co-created a rack-density program that unlocked stranded capacity at space-constrained sites — adding server hardware into existing racks where no standard positions remained. Hundreds of racks deployed across multiple countries without new construction, plus further savings from cabling optimization across global locations.
Data Center Infrastructure Delivery · 2016–2020
80–90%
Faster physical-layer analysis (pilot)
A custom fiber-path diagnostic application cut multi-hour manual investigations to a fraction of the time per circuit validation cycle in pilot use. In active development.
Current role · applications
5
Force-multiplier applications — four in production, one in pilot
An integrated toolset spanning the order lifecycle — intake, L1 validation, tracking, and reporting — that replaced manual, multi-system work with per-order checks measured in seconds and one-click reporting. Built, shipped, and maintained solo, alongside a full-time program-delivery load.
Current role · force-multiplier tooling
Program leadership & recovery
Carrier-fault recovery & vendor escalation
Isolated a multi-week carrier-side fault blocking a backbone turn-up, built a detailed chronology proving the impairment was not ours, then identified the right internal escalation path and drove vendor-performance accountability across multiple teams — resulting in a formal vendor engagement that recovered the circuit and unblocked stalled capacity.
High-capacity path recovered · multi-week fault driven to resolution · cross-team escalation
Fixing what blocks delivery — across team lines
Drove a workflow defect to a root-cause fix in another team's platform — eliminating false-positive circuit progression from a premature validation threshold. Separately, when a cross-team handoff gap left device-readiness signals arriving days late, I raised it with the owning team and, when it stalled, built the visibility tooling myself — adopted by my team ahead of turn-up.
One upstream defect fixed at the source · one gap closed by shipping the tool myself
Migration process hardening
Turned a one-off circuit migration into a repeatable, safer program: ran the lessons-learned to closure, authored an approved change-management template with pre-flight safety checks and program-manager sign-off, and aligned adjacent deployment teams on standardized regional intake. Closed a decommissioning gap that left carrier cross-connects physically connected after cutover — reclaiming scarce ports and optics for reuse and stopping ongoing monthly recurring charges (MRC) for cross-connects with colocation providers.
Repeatable CM template shipped · post-cutover asset recovery
Tooling that accelerates delivery
Backbone Order Tracker
Gives the team and leadership one authoritative view of the delivery pipeline — capacity released, in-flight by stage and quarter, and slipping dependencies — pulled live from the systems of record instead of a drift-prone spreadsheet, so schedule slips surface early enough to escalate and weekly reporting is a one-click publish. Adopted across the team as its everyday order-tracking application.
Weekly leadership reporting reduced from a manual compile to one click
Rust
Tauri v2
Svelte 5
SQLite
L1 Fiber-Path Diagnostic Application
Removes a major turn-up bottleneck in backbone delivery — L1 fault isolation. Stalled circuits clear substantially faster: it pinpoints the exact cabling fault and the fix, and catches one bad cable's cascade across multiple circuits in a single pass — encoding optical expertise the standard tooling lacks. Validated on live circuits during delivery.
Per-cycle analysis cut from hours to minutes
Python
Bash/expect
Tauri
Circuit Lifecycle Browser Application
Keeps backbone order execution moving by surfacing circuit lifecycle, capacity, cabling, and sync status inline on the order page — answering "where does this order stand?" without hopping across systems. Adopted organically team-wide; its checks now ship inside the order tracker.
Per-order status check reduced from minutes to seconds
JavaScript
Browser automation
Global Device Status Monitor
Flags devices that aren't yet operational at order intake — before they become turn-up timeline blockers — by checking readiness across the global network-state system in one pass instead of manual per-device lookups. Lets a program manager prep cabling validation proactively rather than discovering blockers at go-live. Adopted organically team-wide; its checks now ship inside the order tracker.
Per-cutsheet readiness check reduced from many minutes to seconds
JavaScript
Browser automation
REST API
Backbone Operations Slack Application and Workflows
Standardizes how every backbone order is coordinated — auto-creating and archiving each order's Slack channel with consistent naming, order details, and the right members. Paired with event-driven workflows that fire at each lifecycle transition (cabling, pending-turn-up, normalization) to notify the right operations team and auto-assign the owning program manager or network deployment engineer — so ownership is never ambiguous and no order slips through untracked.
Per-order channel setup fully automated · lifecycle workflows for each transition
Slack API and Workflows
Node.js
All applications are proprietary internal systems presented as operational case studies.
Experience snapshot
Amazon Web Services — since 2016
Technical Infrastructure Program Manager — Backbone Capacity Engineering
Seattle, WA
— Present
End-to-end ownership of hyperscale backbone capacity programs:
- Delivered hundreds of Tbps of backbone capacity across dozens of global backbone sites
- Eliminated recurring monthly leased-capacity charges by driving idle inter-metro paths into operational service
- Drove platform improvements across provisioning, validation, and operations systems — including upstream workflow fixes landed in partner teams' platforms
- Owned Day-1 backbone capacity for AI and large-scale compute infrastructure programs, sequencing cross-team cabling and turn-up dependencies from months out
- Shipped five force-multiplier applications alongside full-time delivery, cutting recurring execution friction across the order lifecycle
Recurring cost eliminated
Migration pipeline in progress
Edge Data Center Projects & Operations Lead Engineer
Montreal, QC
—
Scaled and operated network infrastructure across a large fleet of concurrent mission-critical data center locations in Canada and the U.S.:
- Maintained zero unplanned downtime across all sites
- Led emergency international deployments to Frankfurt, Mumbai, and Bahrain
- Coordinated COVID-19 capacity scaling response
Multi-million-dollar documented savings
Equipment RMA recovery
Global site footprint
Promoted to Lead, 2021
Data Center Infrastructure Delivery Engineer
Montreal, QC
—
Co-created and delivered infrastructure programs across global locations:
- Co-created rack density redesign program enabling stranded-capacity utilization
- Defined, built, and maintained strategic cabling and network scaling projects
- Executed international deployments to USA, Germany, India, and Bahrain
Eight-figure rack-density savings
Cabling optimization
Multi-project scaling portfolio
Hundreds of racks · multiple countries
Credentials
Certifications & education
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute
BICSI ICT Design Fundamentals
BICSI
Data Center Certified Associate
Schneider Electric
Ph.D., Engineering (information security — methods & systems of information protection)
ITMO University
Master's Degree, Law (focus on information security policy)
Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences
Vocational Diploma, Telecommunications Installation & Repair
Pearson Electrotechnology Centre