Alex Shakhnovsky Email & Phone Number

Duluth, Ga, Us

South Jordan, Ut, Us

🔹 Cloud Transformation: With a deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), I lead teams in architecting and implementing scalable and resilient cloud solutions. I am dedicated to driving digital transformation, optimizing performance, and enhancing security in the cloud. 🔹 As a FinOps leader, I drive financial optimization on the cloud, enabling organizations to achieve cost efficiency and maximize ROI. Through strategic analysis, budgeting, and resource management, I lead initiatives that align financial goals with cloud operations, resulting in streamlined processes and increased financial accountability.🔹 Kubernetes Leadership: Leading a kubernetes team across hybrid environments, seamlessly managing both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure. With a focus on scalability, reliability, and efficient resource allocation, I foster collaboration and drive innovation, ensuring optimal performance and leveraging the full potential of Kubernetes technology.🔹 Driving a talented team designing hybrid strategy across multi-petabyte datalake driven by a hadoop ecosphere.

South Jordan, Ut, Us

Leading a cross-functional team focused on ML/AI and datalake capabilities within R&D.• Migrated multi-petabyte datalake onto standard set of processes, with CI/CD and enhanced telemetry and footprint within Azure• Developed strategy for onboarding new clients and reduce time to implementation by 2x• Integrated deep learning stack into existing frameworks and enabled data scientists exploratory capabilities for fraction of price - which led to development of COVID-19 predictive models• Implemented SAFe framework within DevOps team which improved efficiency across entire business unit.• Took lead across multiple teams running K8s, hadoop and cloud engineering with focus on workload migrations onto cloud.

South Jordan, Ut, Us

• Day to day managing leadership on a team of 14 engineers across wide spectrum of open-source technologies• Designed processes aimed at improving efficiencies through automation• Technical leadership on a number of high profile projects dealing with bigdata, cloud and k8s• Scaled out team globally from 3 to 14 engineers • Primary contact for performance tuning and optimization efforts dealing with sub-sec performance

South Jordan, Ut, Us

Proven SME/SRE experience. Comfortable with challenging goals and working under pressure.• Virtualization : VMware , KVM and Proxmox• Networking: Cisco, F5 GTM/LTM, Checkpoint and open-source networking solutions• Storage : Cisco MDS , Hitachi USPV, Nimble, XIO, FC/iSCSI and NFS• Middleware : Jboss, Glassfish. Microservices and integration experience with HA in mind• Cloud : designed and managed migrations/implementations to AWS• DB : Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MSSQ and Cassandra• Big Data: Hadoop(CDH) cluster deployments

South Jordan, Ut, Us

Solaris and storage engineer on client-facing production systems. Multiple migrations and scale out to a number of sparc and x86 servers running Solaris. Developed migration strategy with HDS, as well as performance tuning for sla-sensitive product lines

South Jordan, Ut, Us

Primary windows and exchange administrator. Developed processes, executed migrations, trained junior members of the team. Primary contact for all corporate IT systems, including networking and storage

Mclean, Va, Us

Network support and management of Microsoft-based infrastructure. Work with MS windows servers as well as MS exchange.

Houston, Texas, Us

Support Analyst on Proliant Servers

Bs, Industrial Engineering

Mba, Business Analysis