Work experience
Ness KDC
Senior DevOps engineer | 2020-now
- Here I was part of the team building services in Azure from ground up. I made sure best practices were followed, managed deployments and infrastructure with gitops practices and Jenkins pipelines
- Involved in setting up and managing APIM, Application gateway, Function apps, event hubs, Key vaults, AKS, monitoring & alerting, networking, storage accounts
- Occasionally also supporting a dev team with AWS services
IBM
DevOps engineer | 2016-2020
- Here I helped the client establish DevOps practices such as IaC, CI/CD, participated in designing a new architecture and migrating services to it
- Architectural design, deployment and L1-L3 support of a development environment - stack: RHEL 7, RStudio, Jupyter notebooks, Shiny server, OpenPBS
- Cooperation with developers - app deployment and support
- Ansible for config management of the entire environment
- Zabbix for monitoring and reporting
- Design and implementation of an ETL stage for generating reports
- Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines, git repos and kanban boards
- Migration to containerized services
T-Systems
SAP Basis Administrator | 2014-2016
- Administration of SAP ABAP and portal systems and Oracle/Informix databases
Unix L2 and L3 support | 2008-2014
- Linux and HP-UX server administration, responsibility for L2 and L3 support tasks
- Basic network configuration
- Server installation and configuration
- Cluster management and configuration - HP Serviceguard and Veritas Cluster
- Extensive knowledge of HP LVM, basic knowledge Veritas Volume Manager
- Virtualization with HP nPar, vPar and HP Virtual machine
- Worked for major customers in various enterprise environments: Philips, Centrica British Gas, O2 Germany, T-Mobile UK, Orange UK, T-Com Germany
Nay Elektrodom
Warehouse worker | 2006-2007
- Everything from moving around fridges and TVs to collecting trash... yup, those were my beginnings
Other projects
Homelab
playing with stuff | 2019-now
2022 - self-hosted kubernetes cluster
- Multi-master cluster with Rook/Ceph and MetalLB
- Currently playing with HA Wordpress hosting
- Proxmox HA cluster
- Home network split into several physical networks for different purposes
- VLANs will be added later with networking hardware upgrade
- Powered by a Raspberry pi zero and a BOSCH air quality module
- Stuck outside my window in a tinfoil-covered chewing gum plastic box
- Data exported by Prometheus and gathered on my server
- API is published so that this web page can now show the temperature in real time
- Bonus - heater turns on when temperature inside drops
2020 - Proxmox hypervisor
- Self-managed NAS
- In-house DNS server
- TLS proxy for multiple domains hosted on and off this server, including this resume
- Monitored with Prometheus&Grafana
- Several VMs with room to play with stuff
- Initially, it was used for hosting services like Nextcloud, Pihole, playing with automation...
- Right now, it's used as a backup server for the homelab, as well as a quorum device for a HA cluster
This resume
inspired by cloudresumechallenge.dev | 2020
- Hosted on AWS S3
- Code versioned on my github
- Automatic deployment by AWS CodePipeline
- Javascript visitor counter
- API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB setup for the visitor counter
- Cloudflare for caching and DNS challenge