Position: Head of Infrastructure department
Category: DevOps
English level: intermediate
Years of experience: 11

Some notable results include:
- Transferring workloads from bare metal to GCP allowed the business to scale and save significant resources on autoscaling capabilities.
- Reducing time to market. Implementing a fast CI process and replacing a single testing environment (stage) with dynamic environments for each feature enabled the company to move "fast and furious." We were able to release over 30 times a day.
- Local development environment. By allowing developers to run locally developed code in their own GKE environment, we relieved the burden on their laptops and solved issues with standardizing local environments.
- DevOps as a platform. Giving developers the ability to manage the full lifecycle of their microservice from the repository significantly enhanced their understanding of the service's life cycle and accelerated the development process.
- Backup. We went beyond the norm and tested backups of databases, even those exceeding 8TB. By implementing Pulumi and describing the dependency handling process in Golang, we achieved the ability to deploy a complete production environment in a separate region in case the current region becomes unavailable. This process only took 1 hour and 15 minutes of downtime in case of a region failure, saving a significant amount compared to maintaining a hot standby.
Hello!

I'm glad you're reading this.
Let me briefly describe some significant achievements from the past 5 years.

Modernize the technology stack:
- Educating product teams on the principles of the 12-factor app approach.
- Implementing cloud practices.
- Overhauling the entire CI/CD process.
- Describing infrastructure as code (IaC) and migrating the entire product from bare metal to GKE.
- Migrating the product to a micro-services architecture and transitioning to Kubernetes.

Developing the team further. As a hiring manager, I conducted numerous interviews and built a strong team in four areas: DevOps, DBA, Service Operations, and Help Desk.

Currently, the team consists of 20 engineers, and we're using cutting-edge technologies. If we lacked any technologies, we weren't afraid to design and develop the necessary tools. For example, we created a Tilt wrapper that allowed developers to set up a complete development environment ready for coding in just five minutes.
Я шукаю нові значні виклики для всебічного розвитку своєї особистості і професіональної експертизи.
Від роботи очікую можливості розвиватися і втілювати в життя найсміливіші і складні проєкти.