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Lead Engineer at Website Protection team - providing 24/7 Website DDoS Protection (L7) services.Achievements:• Participated in our own captcha creation capable to handle massive DDoS-attacks• Helped development team to improve filtering applications performance• Creating features for customers (as cross-team collaboration and communication result)Key skills:• Collaboration and communication• Infrastructure planning• Planning new features• Performance tuning• Automation, scripting• TroubleshootingWork experience:• Cross-team collaboration and communication for troubleshooting, performance tuning, creating new features• Refactoring and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to create better customer value• Day-to-day monitoring and maintaining 24/7 DDoS mitigation services• Creating new ways of DDoS mitigation• Performance tuning• Traffic load analysis and infrastructure planning• DNS services management• CDN services management• Creating new and refactoring existing logging, monitoring and alerting systems• Managing clustered systems: Nomad, ClickHouse, ScyllaDB• Infrastructure security hardening• Participating new points of presence planning• Creating Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC)• Troubleshooting at all levels• Documenting IT infrastructure

As Lead Engineer at Cloud Services Team managed and developed cloud infrastructure (dedicated servers, VDS, hosting) to deliver better customer value.Achievements:• Implemented/refactored metrics, monitoring and alerts for every part of cloud infrastructure• CEPH latency reduced twice• Refactored legacy systemsKey skills:• Collaboration and communication• Automation, scripting• Performance tuning• Planning new features• Troubleshooting• Researching and implementing new relevant toolsWork experience:• Planning new features for cloud infrastructure (dedicated servers, VDS, hosting) to deliver better customer value• Administering, maintaining and performance tuning CEPH, OpenStack• Administering, maintaining and performance tuning hosting software• CEPH planning and hardware upgrade procedures• Implementing new and fixing existing logging, monitoring and alerting systems• Infrastructure security hardening• Automation• Creating Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC)• Documenting IT infrastructure• Troubleshooting at all levels

Was part of the team responsible for production systems management, IT operations, infrastructure automation, planning and deploying to provide 24/7 DDoS mitigation services.Achievements:• Planned and deployed geo-distributed database architecture as part of backend for DDoS mitigation service• Troubleshot and fixed bugs that affected our cloud computing infrastructure• Participated in cross data centers migration without customers affecting (planning procedures and systems redeployment in new DC)• Increased infrastructure automation coverageKey skills:• Collaboration and communication• Automation, scripting• Troubleshooting• Researching and implementing new relevant toolsWork experience:• Planning and creating ScyllaDB cluster architecture used in 24/7 DDoS mitigation services• Creating new and refactoring existing automation procedures• Creating build and deploy pipelines for new software• Implementing new and fixing existing logging, monitoring and alerting systems• Development environment automation• Helping development teams with performance troubleshooting and tuning• Helping development teams with planning schemes and ScyllaDB tuning• Researching new tools to improve development teams experience• Day-to-day monitoring and maintaining systems used in 24/7 DDoS mitigation services• Troubleshooting at all levels• Documenting IT infrastructure

Led a team of system administrators that provided IT infrastructure for university with more than 20000 students and more than 3000 employees. We reinvented and rebuilt whole IT infrastructure, implemented best practices, moved from unexpected infrastructure downtime incidents and outages during working hours to controlled maintenance time windows.Achievements:• Creating failover Windows Cluster• Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) zero downtime migration• Fixed old bad decisions • Refactored and rebuilt systems according to the best practices• Implemented centralized antivirus management system• Implemented centralized update management• Implemented same-sign on authentication scheme, developed authentication modules for non-LDAP aware systems• Tuned web server and IT infrastructure to handle with seasonal web traffic spikes• Documenting IT infrastructureKey skills:• IT infrastructure planning• Troubleshooting• Collaboration and communication• Domain infrastructure administering• Server administering• Security hardeningWork experience:• IT infrastructure planning• Day-to-day tasks required to administer and maintain servers and IT infrastructure• Troubleshooting at all levels• Domain management (AD, group policy, etc.)• Backups & recovery• Researching, installing and maintaining network and server-side software• Firewalls configuration• IT infrastructure security hardening• Administering and maintaining web, proxy and reverse proxy servers• Administering and maintaining corporate systems (Exchange, WSUS, Lync, databases)• Powershell scripting• Helping development teams with performance troubleshooting and tuning