Web3 with Sam Kamani
355: DevOps in Web3: Automating Smart Contracts with Keeper Hub with Guest Speaker Simon Kelada-Polupanov
04 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What inspired Simon Kelada-Polupanov to pursue a career in DevOps?
hello innovators entrepreneurs and risk takers welcome to another episode of web with sam kamani podcast and today on this episode i am interviewing simon from keeper hub at keeper hub they work with builders and developers who are building in the web 3 space who are using things such as smart contracts
and they need help with their devops side of things so they their software uses ai and helps with automating workflows around this space as always nothing that we talk about here should be taken as investment advice and please like share subscribe and follow with all that out of the way let's get into it So Simon, welcome to the show.
Looking forward to interviewing you here today on the Web3 podcast. Before we get into Keeper Hub and everything you guys are that you guys are building, I would love to learn a bit more about your journey. How did you get involved in to do with all things with blockchain and Web3 and crypto?
Yeah. Hi, Sam. Thanks for hosting me. Good to be here.
Chapter 2: How did Keeper Hub originate from the MakerDAO days?
So, yeah, a little bit about me. So I come from the system administrator DevOps world. Originally, that's how I got into the tech space. When I was kind of coming up, the most exciting things was Linux. So I started getting into that, installed Distro.
Chapter 3: What are the main functionalities of Keeper Hub for smart contracts?
on an old computer that I found in the garage and start to tinkering with that. And that actually got me into system administration, being able to configure server the way I wanted to and ended up getting a job actually in that field as well. So I started as a junior system administrator and then a couple of years later, DevOps started coming around. So tech started companies got more prolific.
Chapter 4: How can developers achieve gas fee optimization with Keeper Hub?
I think people started to realize that developers need to work closer with operations. So that's obviously where the DevOps comes from. And all the tools that came from that as well became quite exciting. So things like Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, you know, like all the modern tools that we know and love now. So yeah, that whole wave into DevOps I found really exciting.
Chapter 5: What is the role of AI in the developer landscape and DevOps?
And cloud, of course, AWS came around and everyone didn't know what that was what's this cloud thing um so um yeah yeah so um that was kind of my journey into crypto from there into ethereum fantastic and tell me a bit more about keeper hub and what's the main problem that you guys solve at keeper hub yeah so um so to take a little step back first um um
So then continuing from before my journey with DevOps, I kept on hearing about this thing called Ethereum. And there was Ethereum this, Ethereum that. And I ignored it for a while.
Chapter 6: Why is DevOps considered the invisible hero in the Web3 space?
And then eventually I had, I think it was like 30 or 50 tabs open in my browser trying to read up on this thing called Ethereum. Went down the rabbit hole and found it really exciting. I wanted to host my own node. I wanted to join the open decentralized community. I agreed with a lot of ethos of Ethereum.
Chapter 7: What misconceptions do developers have about DevOps?
And so I thought a good idea would be to start contributing to a project. And so that worked in the Ethereum space. And that's how I found Maker. So Sky Protocol, as it's known now, it used to be known as Maker, and started doing DevOps for Maker Foundation. So yes, so that's kind of the very beginnings of
Chapter 8: What is Keeper Hub's roadmap and how can users get involved?
Keeper Hub. And even before that, we formed a company called TechOps Services that was contributing to make a protocol and other clients providing DevOps to Web3 services. So that's kind of where we discovered the need for reliable infrastructure to automate and monitor smart contracts. So that's how Keeper Hub came around.
Of course, everyone has heard of and knows Maker. And, you know, it's like a lot of founders, when they have come up with an idea, they don't think about DevOps, but it is still such a big part. And even if you look at all the roles advertised or when founders, because I've been quite
involved in the whole community of like indie hackers and builders and early stage startups and going to different hackathons they think of front-end engineer they think of back-end they think of full stack developers they don't think of devops and that's like so big until later on when they think of oh yeah they're just running things on local and then when they want to deploy and things and especially with blockchain based infrastructure it's so much it's a bit different yes
For sure. Because most of it is quite invisible. Yes. Nobody cares about DevOps until things go wrong and things break and then people keep running. Yeah, but we love it. We love the boring. Yes. So, yeah, love to offer this service to Web3 community.
Yeah. Did you, how did you find that niche or what was the key sort of problems you saw in this space that inspired you to go in just in the DevOps part of things? Yeah.
Yeah, I think a couple of points here. I think because the Web3 space is such a fast moving space, or it was when people kind of started realizing what it can do. And especially now with AI coming around, you know, it's like anything is possible now. So the nature of this velocity is like people just don't have time to stop and think and to set up a server properly.
To set up a proper monitoring in place and scrape logs and make sure that everything is running reliable. So that's one thing is kind of DevOps is on the back burner. Yeah. And yeah.
And what is the key sort of feature functionality that people or builders use Keeper Hub for these days?
Yes. So the function of Keeper, as I alluded to before, is to automate and monitor smart contracts and wallets, right? It's just basically as basic as that, as simple as that. And back in Maker Days, during the four years of running TechOps, we had a number of clients coming to us and saying, hey, I've got a smart contract. I've got a wallet that the wallet needs to be topped up.
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