Position: DevOps engineer
Category: DevOps
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 6

- Supported very obsolete setup (I've seen a Gentoo VM in production). This is not an achievement from IT side of view, but it is from business side of view.
- Build an architecture for an in-house product on AWS with CI\CD, monitoring, IPSec networking, etc from complete scratch.
- Solved RedBalloonSecurity HDD challenge for a security researcher position in NYC (I can't post URLs here, but can show you an article on businessinsider/habr about this)
Eh, perhaps I’ll start my story here.
I've started my engineer path at internet providers. After all, back then, in 2011-2012, I did not understand shit about the Internet and how it works. Helping Internet providers build networks was one of the most obvious solutions.
While working in such places, I saw the opportunity to become a NOC engineer. I was very impressed with this position, because, the whole task is to monitor the network, and there is a lot of time to study servers, networks, and, most importantly, I had all the access.
Being an NOC engineer, I was wildly interested in Linux. It seemed to me that Linux is an extremely complicated system, and I was curious to understand this complexity, and what approaches are used to make the system secure and reliable.
Further, I began to look for a Linux engineer kind of job, and spent working for 2.5 years in Swiss Bank. From this position, I understood how a private network between countries is arranged, and looked at my work from the security and approaches point of view
And finally, since 2018, I created a profile on Upwork, found there clients whom I advise on DevOps / System Architecture, and set up the servers myself. Also, I make the development process more convenient for developers. Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Clouds - this is what I'm working with for the past 2 years.
At the moment I am actively studying Kubernetes and have a small lab at home.
Don't want to work with Windows stuff (AD/C#/.NET)