DevOps Engineer

• Led the DevOps team in building a robust infrastructure and toolchain for US-based startups and local companies.
• Oversaw budgeting and resource allocation for DevOps initiatives.
• Collaborated closely with sales teams to understand customer needs and develop compelling DevOps solutions as part of the sales cycle, contributing directly to client acquisition and retention.

• Provisioning of AWS infrastructure resources using IaC principles with Terraform and Terraform Cloud.
• Implementation of CI/CD pipelines for projects based on web client applications, CMS and APIs.
• Deployment of applications to a Kubernetes-based infrastructure architecture on AWS EKS using Ansible and Ruby-based scripting.

(ACQUIRED by AMP Agency)

• Provisioning of AWS infrastructure resources using IaC principles with Terraform and Terraform Cloud.
• Implementation of CI/CD pipelines for projects based on web client applications, CMS, and APIs.
• Deployment of applications to a Kubernetes-based infrastructure architecture on AWS EKS using Ansible and Ruby-based scripting.

• Built and led a team of DevOps engineers, fostering collaboration and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Expanded DevOps principles across the organization, defining and implementing processes to bridge the gap between development, operations, and security (DevSecOps).
• Managed the DevOps department budgets (tools, platforms, people), ensuring cost-effectiveness and organizational goals alignment.
• Translated business needs into technical requirements, and designed the infrastructure and platform architecture for multiple US clients (startups) to ensure security, scalability, and resiliency for long-term operations.

• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins to automate application builds, testing (unit, browser-automated, snapshot, lint, format), and deployment across AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Used Docker to introduce containerization of PHP applications, adding efficient resource utilization and simplified deployments, especially in production-like environments.
• Utilized config-as-code tools (Ansible, Chef) to automate configuration management of virtual machines and the application environment configuration, ensuring consistent and reproducible deployments.
• Added automation principles to various critical business processes established around the software development life cycle (SDLC). Additionally, used BPMN for documenting development processes and optimizing the repetitive and manual work allocated to them.

• Implementation, support, and maintenance of information systems that support business operation.
• Open-source software packaging for "pkgsrc" focusing on BSD and UNIX-like operating system families.
• Deployment of open source packages for self-hosted web, load balancing, monitoring, VoIP, databases, security, version control, and log management services.
• Automation and configuration management of infrastructure and applications using Ansible and shell scripting.