Position: CTO / DevOps / Architect
Category: Lead
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

Certified:
- Magento Certified Developer PLUS
- Zend Certified Engineer PHP
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Rock-solid technical background 🦾:
1⃣ IT technician and lecturer in early years
2⃣ System Administrator / Networks Engineer experience
3⃣ Full Stack Developer (PHP, eCommerce) experience
4⃣ DevOps Team Lead
🧰 CTO of the IT company (more then 300 employees) for 10+ years now

Closely work with Developers and lead DevOps team to fully understand their needs and align tool stack with infrastructure to efficiently strengthen and scale the results.

In past 10 years as a CTO 🧐:
- Significantly improved company infrastructure, maintained its important services (securely connected offices across several countries, ISP failover, DNS etc) 
- Established internal IT team of 10+ members providing DevOps Services, supervising and coordinating, recruiting and adapting new people
- Established and oversaw development standards (web applications, CI/CD, infrastructure) 
- Built technical solution concepts, PoCs
- Built internal DC based on Open Nebula
- Steered technology communities
- Dealt with legacy systems, migrating to modern technologies
- Helped pre-sales team to prepare valuabe offers
- Performed technical, performance and security audits 
- Mastered extreme troubleshooting skills over years
- Went from SVN to GitLab, from Fabric to modern CI/CD, from pfSense to RouterOS and from Windows to Mac

Conducted trainings:
- Magento 2 technology stack and Certification
- DevOps technology stack
- Web/HTTP FastTrack
- OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities

Active developer / DevOps:
- Wrote apps in Laravel, Slim and other handy frameworks
- Maintained infrastructure (configuration management, monitoring...)
- Supported project teams (problem solving, architecture, performance)

Additional skillset:
⏺ PHP: Magento 1 / Magento 2 / Laravel / Symfony
⏺ Web: Apache / Nginx / Varnish / HTTP, SSL/TLS / CDN
⏺ Databases: MySQL / PostgreSQL / Redis / Memcached / Elasticsearch / MongoDB
⏺ Networking: MikroTik (RouterOS), Ubiquiti / Firewalls / Routing / Protocols / Wi-Fi
⏺ OS: Linux / MacOS / Windows
⏺ Cloud / Hosting: AWS / DO / Hetzner / OVH / Docker / Kubernetes / Microservices / IaaC
⏺ Monitoring: New Relic / Prometheus / Grafana / ELK / Zabbix
⏺ CI/CD: Jenkins / Gitlab CI / Github Actions
⏺ Configuration: Terraform / Ansible / Puppet
⏺ Extra Skills: Scripting / Automation / Balena Cloud / AVR MC / Udemy instructor
Strong DevOps team, constantly sharing & learning. Prefer to work on own products rather than being an outsourced figure.