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Systems engineer / Software engineer
DevOps, FinOps, SRE#

As a Lead Systems Engineer, I excel in working on diverse projects and bring my expertise and experience to the clients. Proficient in managing multiple projects and delivering expert-level engineering solutions to clients, conducting audits and coordinating team efforts. Skilled in assisting teams and individuals in adopting appropriate tools and enhancing processes through DevOps practices.

Experienced in systems engineering, infrastructure management, software development lifecycle support, resource and requirements management, and Linux-based systems administration. Proficient in networking problem-solving, coordinating DevOps and development teams, and developing curricula."

Hands-on experience utilizing a diverse range of tools and platforms including CI/CD tools (Gitlab pipelines, Jenkins, Concourse-CI, GoCD), IAAC (Terraform), configuration management tools (Ansible), software development tools (Procedural, Functional, Scripting), and FinOps tools (Cloudhealth, Cloudability).

Certificates
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner


    FinOps Certified Practitioner / Issued by The Linux Foundation

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  • AZ-900 Microsoft Fundamentals


    AZ-900 / Issued by Microsoft

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  • Well-Architected Proficient


    Well-Architected Proficient / Issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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  • AWS Partner: Technical Accredited


    AWS Partner: Technical Accredited / Issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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  • Modern Technology with MACH ---

    Modern Technology with MACH / Issued by MACH Alliance

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  • MACH Mindset


    MACH Mindset / Issued by MACH Alliance

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  • AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner


    AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner / Issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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Experience

[ 2019 - now ] Lead systems engineer @ EPAM Systems

Project domains: Financial, Insurance, Fashion retail, Healthcare
Roles: Key Engineer, FinOps engineering, Build engineer, Developer, Devops team coordinator, Solution consultant, IAAC/CI/CD Auditor
Tools and tech: Cloudhealth, Kubernetes, Kafka, GItlab-CI/CD, Helm, Zipkin, GItlab-CI/CD, Kafka SASL/PLAINTEXT/SSL, Jenkins and Gitlab pipelines, Greenplum (OSS Contribution, gnuC, make),Openstack/terraform (terragrunt), GoCD, Concourse-CI, Ansible, Nomad/Consul, Envoy, MSSQL, Mongo, Postgres, Prometheus/Grafana and ELK, Keycloak.


[ 2017 - 2019 ] DevOps eng, SRE/System administrator @ [Сontract jobs]...

Projects: Deploying EC2 instance / RDS Postgres on AWS, Deploying a MongoDB Cluster on the Digital Ocean Platform, Deploying a 3-node infrastructure based on Virtualbox, configure PTP measuring based on Zabbix monitoring, Configuration and maintenance of environment services, configuration of Devops processes. Support for trouble-free operation of services, completion of the code base, Installation / configuration / maintenance of the development environment, development team/project management, Configuration and maintenance of environment services, configuration of Devops processes. Support for trouble-free operation of services, completion of the code base
Tools: Terraform, Ansible, AWS EC2/RDS, MongoDB, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Zabbix, Docker, K8s, GitLab, Cassandra (+papertrail, +travis-ci), nginx, mysql, php, jenkins, redmine


[ 2017-2018 ] DevOps eng, SRE/System administrator @ Oggetto Web, LLC...

Projects: Installation, configuration and maintenance of e-commerce systems on the platform Magento 1 / Magento 2 (ce, ee), deployment management in dev / prod environment, user support
Tools and Tech: CentOS/Debian, nginx, mysql, php, jenkins, git/gitlab, lxc/docker, ansible, ELK, redmine, haproxy, keepalived, galera-cluster


[ 2009-2017 ] Deputy Director for Science @ Inostudio solutions, LLC...

Projects: Management of mobile and web development laboratory SCINO, organization of interaction with divisions of the Southern Federal University, R&D


[ 2005-2009 ] Leading Specialist of the Chief Designer Department @ Federal Cadastral Center "ZEMLYA"...

Projects: Organization and support of software production technologies, software testing, software production information support. Preparation of software documentation, testing documentation. Testing software systems.
Tools and Tech: Delphi, SVN, Oracle, Action Recorder


[ 2005-2006 ] System administrator @ YUZHNYI REGION, LLC...

Projects: Installation, configuration and maintenance of the main server of the enterprise: creating a virtualized platform and configuring guest systems for external services. User Support, LAN installation.
Tools and Tech: CentOS, nginx, mysql, php, postfix, dovecot, SMB, FTP, VirtualBox. Windows 2003/AD/PDC.


[ 2005-2006 ] System administrator @ BAZA DESIGN, LLC...

Projects: Installation, configuration and maintenance of the main server of the enterprise, user support


Tools and Tech: CentOS, nginx, mysql, php, postfix, dovecot.

[ 2004-2005 ] System administrator @ Agro-industrial company "KARAVAY PLUS"...

Projects: Installation and administration of the company's Internet server, Customer support
Tools and Tech: FreeBSD, nginx, mysql, php, postfix, dovecot


[ 2005 - 2022 ] Southern Federal University (SFEDU, http://sfedu.ru) (former Taganrog State University of Radioengineering (TSURE), Russia, Taganrog), 08/2005 / Ph.D., Assoc. prof. at Software engineering department [Personal page]

Projects: Lectures on the following disciplines: “Administration of Information Systems on the Unix / Linux Platform”, “Administration of Information Systems on the Oracle Platform”, “Theory of Computational Processes”, “Distributed and Cloud Computing, Parallel Programming”, supervising of more than 150th bachelor and masters theses. Modernization and maintenance of the department's computer network. Configuration of main servers, installation, configuration and maintenance of a computing cluster on the HP BL-460c platform for organizing a virtual student laboratory and high-performance computing, about 50 virtual machines .; Software development for the organization and processing of centralized testing results. Installation and configuration of web servers, reverse proxying for individual sites (more than 15 sites)
Tools and Tech: 5 labs, Server farm (Sun v40z, Sunfire 2200, HP BL 460c (16 узлов)/mellanox Infiniband); Linux/Windows Server (2000, 2003/AD, PDC/BDC), VMWare GSX Server/KVM/QEMU/VirtualBox, nginx, mysql, squid, iptables...etc/Proxmox/OpenNebula Delphi/Object Pascal


[ 1997 ] Programmer for Built-in systems @ JSC "Scientific design office computing systems”

Projects: Development of embedded software for onboard built-in systems
Tools and Tech: DSP (TMS) Assembler