Oliver Fasterling
Head of DevOps at Kaia Health- Claim this Profile
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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German Elementary proficiency
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Italian Limited working proficiency
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Spanish Native or bilingual proficiency
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Branko Džakula
Working with Oliver is an absolute treat. From day one he established himself as our go-to person for DevOps topics and never said 'no' to helping out a Kaia colleague with a random tech issue. He definitely puts the 'customer' first. And even with such potentially risky stance in trying to accommodate every incoming request, he manages his time extremely well. I have personally learned a lot from Oliver, and I admired his security awareness level, as it made my job that much easier working with him. Since the lockdown started (due to COVID-19), we established a daily virtual 1x1 to keep the office chatter going and align on daily tasks. Since then, we have become a lot closer and I started to appreciate and respect him a lot more since then. He is a very detail-oriented person with admirable organizational skills and habits. Every ticket in his Jira project is populated with useful and relevant information. Every activity is well documented and tracked precisely. He takes a lot of time to do his research and constantly tries to improve the infrastructure that he is responsible for in terms of security, operational, and pricing perspectives. He is thorough, humbled by his accomplishments and takes responsibility for his failures. I love working with Oliver and I would be honored to work with him as long as we have our fun dailies to look forward to and any tough challenges that may come our way.
Rafael A. Sanchez
A true professional. Oliver is a passionate, talented, creative, and methodical person who loves technology, new things, and new challenges. He and I worked together, as peers, for a few years and I was able to see his potential. Later in my career I was offered a management position, and as soon I had the opportunity I brought Oliver to my team. What a great addition! He was always ready to face any challenge head-on. But it was his willingness to work hard, and his high performance results, that gave him the promotion to be a Team Lead. I recommend Oliver to anything. He would be able to accomplish anything he sets his mind to. If I again have the opportunity I would hire him in a heartbeat. Thank you Oliver for all of your contributions to our team.
Branko Džakula
Working with Oliver is an absolute treat. From day one he established himself as our go-to person for DevOps topics and never said 'no' to helping out a Kaia colleague with a random tech issue. He definitely puts the 'customer' first. And even with such potentially risky stance in trying to accommodate every incoming request, he manages his time extremely well. I have personally learned a lot from Oliver, and I admired his security awareness level, as it made my job that much easier working with him. Since the lockdown started (due to COVID-19), we established a daily virtual 1x1 to keep the office chatter going and align on daily tasks. Since then, we have become a lot closer and I started to appreciate and respect him a lot more since then. He is a very detail-oriented person with admirable organizational skills and habits. Every ticket in his Jira project is populated with useful and relevant information. Every activity is well documented and tracked precisely. He takes a lot of time to do his research and constantly tries to improve the infrastructure that he is responsible for in terms of security, operational, and pricing perspectives. He is thorough, humbled by his accomplishments and takes responsibility for his failures. I love working with Oliver and I would be honored to work with him as long as we have our fun dailies to look forward to and any tough challenges that may come our way.
Rafael A. Sanchez
A true professional. Oliver is a passionate, talented, creative, and methodical person who loves technology, new things, and new challenges. He and I worked together, as peers, for a few years and I was able to see his potential. Later in my career I was offered a management position, and as soon I had the opportunity I brought Oliver to my team. What a great addition! He was always ready to face any challenge head-on. But it was his willingness to work hard, and his high performance results, that gave him the promotion to be a Team Lead. I recommend Oliver to anything. He would be able to accomplish anything he sets his mind to. If I again have the opportunity I would hire him in a heartbeat. Thank you Oliver for all of your contributions to our team.
Branko Džakula
Working with Oliver is an absolute treat. From day one he established himself as our go-to person for DevOps topics and never said 'no' to helping out a Kaia colleague with a random tech issue. He definitely puts the 'customer' first. And even with such potentially risky stance in trying to accommodate every incoming request, he manages his time extremely well. I have personally learned a lot from Oliver, and I admired his security awareness level, as it made my job that much easier working with him. Since the lockdown started (due to COVID-19), we established a daily virtual 1x1 to keep the office chatter going and align on daily tasks. Since then, we have become a lot closer and I started to appreciate and respect him a lot more since then. He is a very detail-oriented person with admirable organizational skills and habits. Every ticket in his Jira project is populated with useful and relevant information. Every activity is well documented and tracked precisely. He takes a lot of time to do his research and constantly tries to improve the infrastructure that he is responsible for in terms of security, operational, and pricing perspectives. He is thorough, humbled by his accomplishments and takes responsibility for his failures. I love working with Oliver and I would be honored to work with him as long as we have our fun dailies to look forward to and any tough challenges that may come our way.
Rafael A. Sanchez
A true professional. Oliver is a passionate, talented, creative, and methodical person who loves technology, new things, and new challenges. He and I worked together, as peers, for a few years and I was able to see his potential. Later in my career I was offered a management position, and as soon I had the opportunity I brought Oliver to my team. What a great addition! He was always ready to face any challenge head-on. But it was his willingness to work hard, and his high performance results, that gave him the promotion to be a Team Lead. I recommend Oliver to anything. He would be able to accomplish anything he sets his mind to. If I again have the opportunity I would hire him in a heartbeat. Thank you Oliver for all of your contributions to our team.
Branko Džakula
Working with Oliver is an absolute treat. From day one he established himself as our go-to person for DevOps topics and never said 'no' to helping out a Kaia colleague with a random tech issue. He definitely puts the 'customer' first. And even with such potentially risky stance in trying to accommodate every incoming request, he manages his time extremely well. I have personally learned a lot from Oliver, and I admired his security awareness level, as it made my job that much easier working with him. Since the lockdown started (due to COVID-19), we established a daily virtual 1x1 to keep the office chatter going and align on daily tasks. Since then, we have become a lot closer and I started to appreciate and respect him a lot more since then. He is a very detail-oriented person with admirable organizational skills and habits. Every ticket in his Jira project is populated with useful and relevant information. Every activity is well documented and tracked precisely. He takes a lot of time to do his research and constantly tries to improve the infrastructure that he is responsible for in terms of security, operational, and pricing perspectives. He is thorough, humbled by his accomplishments and takes responsibility for his failures. I love working with Oliver and I would be honored to work with him as long as we have our fun dailies to look forward to and any tough challenges that may come our way.
Rafael A. Sanchez
A true professional. Oliver is a passionate, talented, creative, and methodical person who loves technology, new things, and new challenges. He and I worked together, as peers, for a few years and I was able to see his potential. Later in my career I was offered a management position, and as soon I had the opportunity I brought Oliver to my team. What a great addition! He was always ready to face any challenge head-on. But it was his willingness to work hard, and his high performance results, that gave him the promotion to be a Team Lead. I recommend Oliver to anything. He would be able to accomplish anything he sets his mind to. If I again have the opportunity I would hire him in a heartbeat. Thank you Oliver for all of your contributions to our team.
Credentials
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]Jan, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Amazon Web ServicesApr, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web ServicesDec, 2016- Sep, 2024 -
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
Amazon Web ServicesJul, 2017- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Kaia Health
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Germany
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head of DevOps
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Sep 2022 - Present
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Head of DevOps
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Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Main roles:• Cloud Solutions Architect• Chief strategist for DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and CI/CD practices• Team leadership, recruitment, hiring, and management of DevOps EngineersSummary of duties:• Design and implementation of enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure on AWS• Integration with a variety of tools and services, using custom scripting and APIs• Container development using Docker, Ruby on Rails, and Python• Build automation and deployment using GitHub and Travis CI• Infrastructure provisioning using Terraform• Container orchestration using Amazon ECS and AWS Elastic Beanstalk• Implementation of Serverless Computing using AWS Lambda• Data analytics using Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL), Redshift, and DMS• Logging and monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, and Sentry• Alerting and On-Call Management with Atlassian Opsgenie• Project management using Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologiesAcquired certifications:• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (Jan 2022) • AWS Certified Developer – Associate (Nov 2020) (Recertification)• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Nov 2020) (Recertification)• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (Nov 2020) (Recertification) Show less
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Actian
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United States
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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Principal DevOps Engineer
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Dec 2017 - Feb 2020
Main roles: • Lead DevOps Engineer, AWS Subject Matter Expert • Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), automation, and QA in AWS Summary of duties: • Container development using Docker, automation deployment using Terraform, and container orchestration using Kubernetes • Build automation using Jenkins and configuration management using SaltStack and Terraform • Modernization of legacy software development lifecycle processes by adopting the latest DevOps industry standards and software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban) • Data analytics using Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, and software development with Scala • Logging and monitoring with Sumo Logic • As an AWS Subject-Matter-Expert, provided training and enablement of AWS practice among peers Acquired certifications: • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Nov 2018) (Recertification) Show less
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NUBELITY
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Cloud Architect
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Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Main roles: • Lead Architect and Strategist for Service Delivery in the Cloud Platform • Lead developer and QA of DevOps and Managed Services in AWS CloudFormation, Lambda, OpsWorks, CloudWatch and integration with ServiceNow orchestration and incident management Summary of duties: • Technical leadership of a team of cloud engineers in our Center of Excellence (COE) • Responsible for the overall strategy and execution of deliverables • Design and execution of Proof of Concepts (POCs), documentation of technical and sales playbooks, and live demos • Delivery of presentations on white board and teleconferences • Design and implementation of solutions based on DevOps principles • Cost analysis, architecture, and dimensioning of new systems • Interview, training, and development of new talent Acquired certifications: • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (July 2017) • AWS Certified Developer - Associate (April 2017 ) • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (December 2016 ) Show less
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Senior DevOps Engineer
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Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Actian / Information Technology / DevOps • Tasks: Automation, monitoring, disaster recovery, datacenter management (deployment, racking, cabling, networking, power) • Platforms: UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX), Linux (RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu), Windows Server, MacOS • Technologies: VMWare, Jenkins, Kickstart, Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, FishEye, Salesforce, Git, Subversion, Veeam, MimeCast, Apache Hadoop, HortonWorks, PSQL, Actian Matrix (PADB), Actian Vector/Vortex, Bugzilla, Mantis, GitHub, AWS, OpenStack, Azure • Infrastructure: MS Active Directory, DNS, DFS replication, Veeam Backup, file sharing (NFS, SMB, UNC, CIFS, rsync) • Storage, RAID controllers, Fibre Channel SANs, SFP+, Mellanox Infiniband • Network: Setup and configuration of switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs • Data manipulation, import/export, parsing of various types of databases (MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server) • Large data synchronization and migration on shared Unix & Windows based file servers • Shell scripting with Bash, Python, cron and REST APIs • Build and release automation with Jenkins • Virtualization of physical servers (P2V) with VMWare • Debugging, troubleshooting, Root Cause Analysis • 24x7 monitoring using Nagios and PagerDuty Show less
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IBM
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer / Technical Lead / DevOps
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Aug 2011 - Jan 2015
IBM Software Group / IBM SmartCloud for Social Business• Technical Lead, Delivery Operations for IBM SmartCloud Notes• Platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, Windows 2008 Server• Portfolio: SmartCloud Notes, Lotus Traveler, Lotus Protector for Mail Security, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus• Datacenter Operations: Equinix and SoftLayer
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Software Engineer / Application Specialist
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Mar 2011 - Aug 2011
IBM Software Group / IBM LotusLive / SaaS Web Delivery Platform• Application Specialist, Delivery Operations for LotusLive Notes• Platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, Windows 2008 Server• Portfolio: LotusLive Notes, Lotus Traveler• Datacenter Operations: Equinix and Softlayer
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Software Engineer / Software Support Engineer
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Aug 2006 - Feb 2011
IBM Software Group / Lotus Technical Support• Level 2 Software Support Engineer• Platforms: Windows, Linux (RedHat, SUSE), AIX• Portfolio: Lotus Notes / Domino, Sametime, Quickr
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Software Engineer / Test Automation Developer
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Jan 2006 - Aug 2006
IBM Global Services / Test Services• Test Automation• Platform: Rational Functional Tester (Java)
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Intern / Test Automation Developer
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May 2005 - Aug 2005
IBM Global Services / Test Services • Test Automation • Platform: Rational Functional Tester (Java) IBM Global Services / Test Services • Test Automation • Platform: Rational Functional Tester (Java)
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University of Houston
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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IT Administrator
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Jul 2002 - May 2005
• IT Administration• Graphic/Web design
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Research Assistant
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May 2002 - Jul 2002
High Temperature Superconductors • Research of visualization of magnetic flux in HTS Applications
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Dell
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Intern / Software Developer
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May 2004 - Aug 2004
Server Performance Analysis Lab • Software Developer (Java) Server Performance Analysis Lab • Software Developer (Java)
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Schlumberger
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United States
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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Co-op / Computer and Electronics Specialist
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Aug 2000 - Jul 2002
Wellsite Delivery Department • Electronics Specialist • Drafter (CAD) • Software Developer (C++, Java, VBA) Wellsite Delivery Department • Electronics Specialist • Drafter (CAD) • Software Developer (C++, Java, VBA)
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Texas Instruments
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United States
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Co-op / Software Developer
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Jan 2000 - May 2000
Computer Automation Department • Software Developer (VBA, HTML, ASP) Computer Automation Department • Software Developer (VBA, HTML, ASP)
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Education
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University of Houston
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering -
Quantic School of Business and Technology
Executive MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations
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