Position: Engineering manager / Infrastructure Lead / Country manager
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

- Migrated from DigitalOcean and packet.net to GCP without downtime
- Successfully addressed various organisation issues at the intersection of the business, technology, people, culture, and process.
- Implemented SRE practices.
- Designed platform observability.
- Hired team that:
  - Does a lot with very little.
  - Values working software over specific tools.
  - Constantly starting new projects, still maintaining legacy systems.
  - Values engineering productivity over most of the other considerations.
- Effective collaboration between Dutch and Ukrainian offices - a single distributed team.
Key Competence:
- 20+ years in industry, 10+ years in managerial positions in the technical teams, 20+ years vast hands-on experience.
- Areas of expertise:
  - Platform engineering.
  - Implementing DevOps and SRE practices.
  - People management and influential leadership (lead by example).
  - Define engineering principles, manage execution, adjust based on feedback.
  - Effectively dive into organisation issues, edit the approach, delegate execution to the most appropriate team.
  - Define the technical strategy of the company.
  - Build teams of professionals to achieve company strategic goals.
- Customer and conference talks and presentations.
- Starting on-site and distributed development teams from scratch.

Current responsibilities:
- Infrastructure design, operations, management
  - Public clouds: GCP (primary), AWS (secondary).
  - Orchestration: K8s (GKE), Mesos, Marathon.
  - K8s platform components: cert-manager, ExternalDNS, Nginx Ingress Controller, External Secrets, Gemini (automated PVC backups), RBAC Manager, Reloader (automated rolling upgrades based on CM and Secrets changes).
  - CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Atlantis, Argo CD, Jenkins, Cloud Build.
  - IaaC: Terraform, Packer, Ansible.
  - Data stores: Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, ZooKeeper, MongoDB.
  - Observability: Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Filebeat, Grafana.
  - Internal toolkits based on Python and Go.
  - Disaster Recovery (DR) as a part of BCP, including regular DR testing.
- Platform observability.
- Shift to SRE practices.
- Knowledge sharing on various technical topics.
- Responsible for local operations.
- Ukrainian team management from scratch - budgeting, scorecards, hiring, retaining.
- Platform services development (Go, a small bit of Scala).
- Looking for Staff engineer, Director of Engineering, CTO positions.
- Product company.
- Work-life balance.
- No process over people.