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• Led a team of DevOps engineers in the design, implementation, and maintenance of critical infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Involved in the hiring process for DevSecOps and DevOps engineers, including initial screening, creating technical assignments, and conducting interviews with candidates.
• I adopted an Infrastructure as Code approach to develop Terraform and Terragrunt configurations that accurately represent the existing infrastructure. This involved orchestrating the creation of a new development environment, which included setting up a wide range of AWS resources and services.
• Successfully migrated the BIAA General Embeddings and Text Re-ranker framework from AWS SageMaker to an AWS EKS cluster while maintaining optimal performance.
• Developed a CI/CD pipeline for the Mobile Application SDLC, automating build, test, and deployment processes for iOS and Android applications.
• Wrote comprehensive documentation for Mobile Application CI/CD SDLC pipelines, fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration within the team.
• Championed DevOps best practices within the organization, driving cultural change and process improvement.
• Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams (e.g., development, QA, security) to ensure smooth delivery.
• Designed and implemented continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, accelerating software delivery and improving release quality.
• Took part in the development of the Disaster Recovery Plan and its technical implementation.

• Developed and implemented comprehensive cloud transformation strategy encompassing governance, automation, security, implementation, and operations.
• Championed cloud adoption by providing technical guidance and best practices for design, build, governance, security, operations, and cost control.
• Built high-performing DevOps team through recruitment, mentoring, and training of three new engineers.
• Introduced key management practices: one-on-one meetings, change management policy, and IT security policy.
• Conducted cloud infrastructure architecture review/audit and established a detailed design document.
• Streamlined system monitoring by implementing new tools for tracking applications, databases, transactions, and overall system health.
• Implemented automation pipelines using GitLab CI, Bash scripting, and Python to optimize support functions and release management.
• Introduced Terragrunt, Terraform, Ansible, and Helm to automate cloud infrastructure and server configuration management.
• Successfully migrated critical resources (Kubernetes cluster, Redis server, Mongo database) to cloud-managed solution for increased scalability and efficiency.
• Established effective on-call rotation to ensure rapid response and troubleshooting for potential issues.
• Upholding service quality by upgrading service mesh network (Linkerd) to newer version, enhancing observability, security, and reliability.
• Consistently participated in troubleshooting sessions, actively identifying and implementing solutions for technical roadblocks.

• Keeping track of current knowledge of relevant technology developments and standards
• Reviewing business/functional requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Provide turn-key CI/CD solution for automation of routine tasks, with keeping in mind cost and security aspects.

Successfully completed projects:

• EDE: Developed and implemented AWS Organization Structure with aim on security and isolation between service accounts. Wrote basic Terraform modules.
• Snoonu Trading LLC: Falconflex project migration from AWS to Azure.
• Perimeter81: Wrote Terraform/Terragrunt code for Freeradius and Wazuh services deployment.
• Toyota Connected Europe: Vehicle Leasing system migration from on premises servers to AWS.
• MyHomeDoctor: Developed CI/CD automation pipeline, DRP plan, IT policies, and helped with HIPAA certification.
• PayTechno: Wrote IT policies and facilitated with PCI DSS certification.
• VIA, SafeCharge, Unibeam, Maverick, Papaya Gaming, and many others.

• Wrote "Best Practices Guidelines" documents for Ansible and Terraform, with recommendations on Test-Driven Development and SDLC implementation.
• Wrote Ansible roles for Katim applications deployment.
• Wrote Ansible roles for "Raptor MDM" project deployment.
• Developed High-Level Design and Low-Level Design documentation for Graphene project.
• Wrote Ansible code for Graphene project environments deployment.
• Wrote Terraform code for Graphene project infrastructure deployment.
• Wrote Terraform modules for deployment infrastructure in OpenStack and Microsoft Azure.
• Helped to troubleshoot and resolve operational issues related to OpenStack-Terraform-Ansible deployment.

• Proactively maintain and improve infrastructure within cloud environment utilizing automation and configuration management tools.
• Ensure application and infrastructure availability and performance via monitoring and alerts.
• Ensure security of networks and products through continuous monitoring for malicious activities, network monitoring, vulnerability management and risk assessments.
• Incorporate and implement best DevOps and security practices.
• Work with development team to design, develop and maintain build and deployment pipelines.
• Write scripts and automation tools using Python/Groovy/Bash.
• Configure and manage data sources like MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, etc.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, including policies and procedures.

• Own and scale Xero services
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability of Xero systems
• Help create and contribute to scalable reliability tools
• Share on-call rotation backed by all Xero product teams
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and monitoring of systems to ensure adequate SLA and capacity requirement.

• Automated deployment of virtualization cluster based on LXD container hypervisor, in addition to writing document covering all aspects of LXD usage.
• Automated deployment of PostgreSQL Failover Cluster Instance, including database cluster monitoring system and PgAdmin 4.3.1, a database management tool. Also wrote a document describing monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting of the database cluster.
• Developed Ansible-based extendable abstract framework with host-oriented structure allowing deployment of specific services, reusing available roles with different settings. Additionally, documented the new structure, Ansible best practices, workflow and code development lifecycle.
• With Jenkins created Continuous Integration pipeline, defined testing strategies, installed and configured automated testing software, automated testing builds and managed deployment using LXD and Bash.
• Created playbooks and roles for automated installation of 80% of Linux servers.
• Automated Atlassian JIRA and Confluence Server migrations from Atlassian Cloud to on-premises Linux servers.