Experience

BrainRocket

• Cyprus
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Head of DevOps

  • May 2023 - Present



BIOCAD

• Russian Federation
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Principal engineer - DevOps and IT infrastructure

  • Sep 2020 - Apr 2023

  St Petersburg City, Russia Achievements: - Applications deployment frequency: 3 to 5 times per week - Implemented IaC and GitOps approach for Clouds, self-hosted DNS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, VMWare virtual machine provisioning, Hashicorp Vault, etc. Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD. - DR plan implemented using Azure Site Recovery and Azure Kubernetes Services - Implemented geo-redundancy protection for critical enterprise systems. Launched self-hosted geo-redundant Kubernetes cluster. RPO - 0 min, RTO < 5… Show more Achievements: - Applications deployment frequency: 3 to 5 times per week - Implemented IaC and GitOps approach for Clouds, self-hosted DNS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, VMWare virtual machine provisioning, Hashicorp Vault, etc. Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD. - DR plan implemented using Azure Site Recovery and Azure Kubernetes Services - Implemented geo-redundancy protection for critical enterprise systems. Launched self-hosted geo-redundant Kubernetes cluster. RPO - 0 min, RTO < 5 min. Routine: - Platform engineering. Kubernetes, Hashicorp Vault, Gitlab, ArgoCD, Artifactory, SonarQube, ELK - Maintaining multiple Linux services. Ceph, Keycloack, Velero, Kasten, Prometheus, Minio, Postgresql, PowerDNS, AWX, etc... - Building CI/CD pipelines - Monitoring and observability (ELK, Prometheus, Alert Manager, etc) - Cloud <-> On-prem migrations

• TeamLead / IT Services and Infrastructure automation

  • Jul 2018 - Sep 2020

  St Petersburg City, Russia Lead a team of 6 Achievements: - Implemented a unified CI/CD pipeline for software development. Build, test, stage, and deploy + security check - Migrated 100+ services to Docker containers - Implemented SSO across all enterprise products (50+). Keycloak and AzureAD - Implemented BYOD based on Microsoft EMS. MAM and MDM Routine: - Core Infrastructure and services improvement and scaling. Hybrid cloud (Azure), Kubernetes clusters, HCI clusters, 1000+ virtual servers, 600+… Show more Lead a team of 6 Achievements: - Implemented a unified CI/CD pipeline for software development. Build, test, stage, and deploy + security check - Migrated 100+ services to Docker containers - Implemented SSO across all enterprise products (50+). Keycloak and AzureAD - Implemented BYOD based on Microsoft EMS. MAM and MDM Routine: - Core Infrastructure and services improvement and scaling. Hybrid cloud (Azure), Kubernetes clusters, HCI clusters, 1000+ virtual servers, 600+ network devices (routers/switches/controllers). - Building Kubernetes clusters from scratch. Self-managed/Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) - Maintaining 24/7 systems - Network automation. Multivendor network devices. Ansible, Python, Cisco ISE - Implementing software in the corporate landscape. Sap for HANA, SalesForce, Concur, etc. - Developing interaction processes with related IT departments

• Head of Unit / IT infrastructure development

  • Jan 2018 - Jun 2018

  St Petersburg City, Russia The lead of a team of 3 Responsibility zone: - Corporate network - Windows/Linux servers (400+) - VoIP and Video Conferencing systems - Virtualization/Containerisation clusters Providing stable infrastructure works Mentoring team members Launched self-hosted Kubernetes cluster Implementing DevOps methodology Working with IT budget, supply chain, and IT vendors Launching new locations

• Senior System Engineer

  • Jul 2015 - Jan 2018

  St Petersburg City, Russia My main responsibility was the technical expertise to overcome the IT infrastructure bottlenecks associated with the explosive growth of the company, from 700 to 1500 employees in 2 years. Achievements: - Corporate network was completely redesigned. From L2 broadcast domain, static routes, network loops, and manual fallback for failed providers to L3 network with OSPF, DMVPN, and BGP. - Implemented configuration standards for routers, access, and core switches - Launched the… Show more My main responsibility was the technical expertise to overcome the IT infrastructure bottlenecks associated with the explosive growth of the company, from 700 to 1500 employees in 2 years. Achievements: - Corporate network was completely redesigned. From L2 broadcast domain, static routes, network loops, and manual fallback for failed providers to L3 network with OSPF, DMVPN, and BGP. - Implemented configuration standards for routers, access, and core switches - Launched the company's data center. My responsibility in this project: network planning and configuration, starting OpenStack cluster, and Ceph cluster tuning - Launched a virtual desktop infrastructure based on Citrix XenDesktop. - Launched video conferencing system on Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Meeting Server - Awarded Employee of the Year in 2017 Routine: - Configuring a hyper-converged cluster based on Microsoft server 2016 and storage spaces direct. - Migrations from MS Exchange 2010 to MS Office 365 - Virtual machine migrations between different hypervisors (Citrix XenServer, VMWare, Openstack (KVM), Hyper-V) - Usual system administrator tasks: configuring and maintaining Linux/Windows servers and systems. nginx, iptables, updates, AD federation/replication, backup, monitoring, etc.



ООО "Техническое сопровождение"

• Network Engineer

  • Jul 2009 - Jun 2015

  St Petersburg City, Russia • Configuring Cisco routers and switches (GRE/MGRE, ACL, PBR, VLAN, NAT, Traffic Shaping, etc) • Supporting routers configuration in different countries (USA, Canada, Mexico) • Maintaining Windows and Linux Servers (50+): - AD, DFS, DNS, DHCP, GPO, Exchange, IIS, MSSQL, RDS 2008/2012. - Bind, Cacty, MySql, FS - Asterisk, Cisco Call Manager • Storage systems IBM and HP • Maintaining VMWare, Hyper-V, Xenserver



Ritzio Entertainment Group

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Windows System Administrator

  • Apr 2008 - Jul 2009

  St Petersburg City, Russia • Installing, configuring, and maintaining windows servers and services (AD, Hyper-V, MSSQL, DPM, Exchange, WDS, IIS, VPN, DNS, DFS, Group Policy, WSUS, etc) • Configuring and maintaining XenServer • Configuring and maintaining Linux Servers (Redmine, Subversion, Cacti)



ООО "Настроение"

• System Administrator

  • May 2007 - Apr 2008

  St Petersburg City, Russia



Ritzio Entertainment Group

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Junior System Administrator

  • 2005 - 2007

  St Petersburg City, Russia



MAKS Internet cafe

• Junior System Administrator

  • 2004 - 2005

  St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia