Petri Paavola
Principal DevOps Engineer at Gram Games- Claim this Profile
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Finnish Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Professional working proficiency
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Swedish Elementary proficiency
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Bio
Tero Ronkanen
Petri has a wide range of technical expertice and is able to start actions very quickly when needed. He also has a very problem solving oriented mind and is very commited in his tasks.
Jari Otranen
Having a professional like Petri on board gives any software project a great change to succeed in the long run. Petri has all the necessary talents and knowledge to build, deploy and operate secure, scalable and high available services - and have been honored to work with him in such projects and organizations. I am truly honored to call Petri not only a colleague, but also a great mate
Tero Ronkanen
Petri has a wide range of technical expertice and is able to start actions very quickly when needed. He also has a very problem solving oriented mind and is very commited in his tasks.
Jari Otranen
Having a professional like Petri on board gives any software project a great change to succeed in the long run. Petri has all the necessary talents and knowledge to build, deploy and operate secure, scalable and high available services - and have been honored to work with him in such projects and organizations. I am truly honored to call Petri not only a colleague, but also a great mate
Tero Ronkanen
Petri has a wide range of technical expertice and is able to start actions very quickly when needed. He also has a very problem solving oriented mind and is very commited in his tasks.
Jari Otranen
Having a professional like Petri on board gives any software project a great change to succeed in the long run. Petri has all the necessary talents and knowledge to build, deploy and operate secure, scalable and high available services - and have been honored to work with him in such projects and organizations. I am truly honored to call Petri not only a colleague, but also a great mate
Tero Ronkanen
Petri has a wide range of technical expertice and is able to start actions very quickly when needed. He also has a very problem solving oriented mind and is very commited in his tasks.
Jari Otranen
Having a professional like Petri on board gives any software project a great change to succeed in the long run. Petri has all the necessary talents and knowledge to build, deploy and operate secure, scalable and high available services - and have been honored to work with him in such projects and organizations. I am truly honored to call Petri not only a colleague, but also a great mate
Credentials
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Enterprise Linux Fundamentals
OracleApr, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Enterprise Linux System Administration
OracleApr, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Oracle VM 3.0 for x86 Essentials
OracleNov, 2012- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Gram Games
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United Kingdom
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Computer Games
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100 - 200 Employee
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Principal DevOps Engineer
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Sep 2022 - Present
Working as part of infrastructure team. Defining and improving backend services for games produced by Gram Games. Working as part of infrastructure team. Defining and improving backend services for games produced by Gram Games.
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Zynga
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United States
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Computer Games
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal DevOps Engineer
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Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Crafting monitoring & automation solutions for the new game. Participating live service development & operations. Enabling advanced QA. CI/CD. Architecting serverless backend for game using AWS standard tech. Cloud Operations, monitoring, perf optimization, cost optimization. Crafting monitoring & automation solutions for the new game. Participating live service development & operations. Enabling advanced QA. CI/CD. Architecting serverless backend for game using AWS standard tech. Cloud Operations, monitoring, perf optimization, cost optimization.
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Electronic Arts (EA)
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United States
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Entertainment Providers
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior LiveOps Engineer
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Jun 2016 - Jan 2019
Scouting new technology for future projects & continuous improvements to SimCity BuildIt. Participating 24x7 on-call. Improving processes and automated monitoring systems. Supporting server & client development. Supporting advanced technical troubleshooting in Live operations, Customer Support, QA on demand basis.
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Network Operations Engineer
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Jul 2014 - May 2016
Supporting gaming backend for SimCity BuildIt. Participating 24x7 on-call. Improving processes and monitoring system. Evaluating latest technology (HW & SW) to current & future projects and participating server system development. Providing day to day technical help for Customer Support, QA and development teams on demand basis.
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Attido
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Finland
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Consultant, Technologies
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Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
Helping customers to optimize their existing IT infra and provide new tools to operate existing or future applications. Translating customer needs to requirements / specifications / solutions. Implementing & tailoring existing or future solutions to match customer systems.
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System Specialist
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Mar 2012 - Mar 2014
Supporting, building and updating large scale oracle systems for our customers. Helping customers to optimize their existing IT infra and providing new better solutions to support their business.
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Blaast
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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System Specialist
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Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
Tasks varied from scaling out virtualized platform (in amazon) to chef scripting for installation automatization. Tasks varied from scaling out virtualized platform (in amazon) to chef scripting for installation automatization.
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Nokia
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Finland
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Systems specialist
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Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
Senior support engineer for large scale single sign on system. The support tasks cover production, staging, integration and R&D responsibilities Additionally IT infrastructure development and renewal + architectural tasks have been part of this job. Senior support engineer for large scale single sign on system. The support tasks cover production, staging, integration and R&D responsibilities Additionally IT infrastructure development and renewal + architectural tasks have been part of this job.
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Whitevector
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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Platform Specialist
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Jan 2009 - Jan 2010
System administration & development, building system monitoring using cacti & nagios + custom scripts, learned agile development. System administration & development, building system monitoring using cacti & nagios + custom scripts, learned agile development.
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Nokia
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Finland
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Integration Engineer
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May 2005 - Jan 2009
DVB-H backend system & platform development.Platform project manager (OS, HW, 3rd party components).
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Lab Engineer
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Oct 2001 - May 2005
Part time job during my studies. Tasks included server installations, network administration, system installations & administration, testing and training others for demo system usage.
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Education
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2001 - 2005
Turun yliopisto / University of Turku
M.Sc, Computer Science -
1999 - 2001
Uudenkaupungin Lukio
Ylioppilas -
Helsingin yliopisto / University of Helsinki
M.Sc., Computer Science
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