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On a journey to establish and grow a new Platform Engineering capability for $2.8B Coles Digital business - the Coles web site and two awesome mobile apps. Report directly to GM Digital Engineering and Data, work as a part of leadership team across multiple engineering pillars, architecture and operations.Leading 20+ platform engineers across multiple squads focusing on engineering excellence across Azure cloud, Kubernetes and containerization, on-premises and DB engineering. Primary focus is streamlining ways of working, onboarding and trainings, improving engineering culture and operational experience, and solving tech challenges at scale for our customers - other engineering squads - across dozens of front-end and backend squads and hundreds of engineers to enable safe delivery at speed for well known customer brand, large scale traffic and 24/7 systems.On other words, we are obsessed about speed of delivery, removing all sorts of bottlenecks across people, processes or technology, and improving reliability of services at scale.All squads are fully WFH and distributed across multiple Australia locations including offshore capabilities.

On a journey to accelerate an iconic Australian retailer grow. In this high-impact role, I am leading distributed platform engineering team to unblock app teams and enable faster speed to market with great developer experience while focusing on engineering culture with easy, safe and scalable cloud consumption, DevOps, monitoring and security practices.Built, hired and lead a distributed team from zero to 3-8 engineers (in-house and consulting partners) while supporting 9 application teams, architecture team and broader business to optimize delivery across dozens of microservices. This is a second time I had a chance to work in a high impact role with high visibility to the business, build a high-performing engineering team and practice from scratch, streamline work across platform and application teams, design and implement strategic roadmap, communicate value of platform engineering to the business.While still being highly-hands on and lead by example, this role provides great challenges - being a force multiplier around technology delivery, engineering culture, mentoring other engineers and help teams deliver value faster. The role comes with unique opportunity to work alongside with experienced business leaders, engineering managers and talented platform, software, security engineers to improve daily life of millions of Big W customers while solving large scale technical problems. Some of the toolchains and areas include GitHub, Azure DevOps pipelines, Azure cloud, containerization with Kubernetes, Kyverno, Prometheus, Grafana, GitOps with Flux, KEDA, Terraform, TerraTest, TerraGrunt, SRE practices and more.Personal interests include tech/non-tech leadership, team topologies and optimizing team interactions for flow, mentoring and championing new initiatives, helping non-technology businesses dealing with complex technology choices - Azure, Kubernetes ecosystem, CI/CD systems, GitOps with Flux, monitoring, SRE, security and cost optimization practices.

As a permanent Senior DevSecOps/Platform Engineer, I am helping half a billion public financial institution with simple answers to complex problems around consistent, secure and scalable Cloud Engineering, DevSecOps and Platform Engineering stories. Responsibilities include mix of software engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, SRE, automation, security, technical/non-technical leadership in shaping roadmaps and implementations. This was a high-impact role with visibility across all engineering teams and broader business. Reported directly to the Head of Engineering, partnered with Head of Security and security team, engineering managers and technical leads to empower, adopt and scale DevOps, security, and cloud-first culture to support thousands of deployments a month across hundreds of apps and dozen teams.Helped with building and hiring the DevSecOps/Platform team from zero to three highly passionate Senior Engineers along with initial roadmap and directions to go.Some of the toolchains and areas include GitHub, Azure DevOps pipelines, Azure cloud ecosystem, AppInsigths, containerization with Kubernetes, Istio, OPA Gatekeeper (Open Policy Agent), DataDog, OpsGenie, HashiCorp Vault, Terraform, TerraTest, TerraGrunt, GruntWork approach and others. Company wide initiatives include cloud engineering, training/upskilling initiatives, consistent CI/CD, monitoring, RBAC and security, secrets management, cost optimization and other stories.Personal interests include tech/non-tech leadership, mentoring and championing new initiatives, solutions around Kubernetes ecosystem, GitOps (ArgoCD, FluxCD), HashiCorp tooling (Nomad, Waypoint), GoLang, big data and data engineering options on Kubernetes (kubeflow, Jupyter Notebooks), defensive/offensive security.

As a permanent DevOps Engineer, I am involved in Qantas cloud story building a consistent CI/CD pipeline at a large scale: thousands of things in the cloud, hundreds of apps and dozen teams. The role comes with a bunch of talented people and an unprecedented mixture of technical and non-technical challenges: from implementing toolchains to talking to hundreds of people to glue teams together, identify problems, promote solutions and remove bottlenecks. Being under such insane cross-fire provides a unique opportunity not only to learn more but also to practice my combined IT skillset across multiple areas: application development and software engineering practices, customer-faced consultancy and DevOps experience. Toolchains cover fundamental pillars of infrastructure provision, configuration management, monitoring, security and backups for Windows/Linux, serverless and other stacks on top of AWS to meet Qantas specifics.Here are some of the keywords I can talk about:AWS, SOE, HashiCorp/Vagrant/Packer/Terraform, Ruby/Python/Bash, JavaScript, PowerShell/DSC, Pester/ServerSpec/goss, Tes Kitchen, Kitchen CI, LocalStack, MockServer, JIRA/Stash/Bamboo/Jenkins2, Confluence, docs/manuals/guides, Splunk/DataDog, CI/CD, quality gates, Blue/Green, Yammer/Slack, configuration/infrastructure as a code, IaC, Agile/Scrum, establishing standards and practises, Value Stream Maps, Docusaurus/VuePress, demos & presentations and so on.

Automating all the things. Responsible for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of the services.Azure, Azure Automation, Vagrant / Packer, Terraform, PowerShell / PowerShell DSC, SharePoint / SharePoint Online, Visual Studio Online, SCOM and so on.

Improving business continuity via crafting enjoyable, smooth and seamless workflows. The following stack and tech is heavily used to get the best provision, configuration and monitoring stories:Azure, Azure Automation, Vagrant, Terraform, PowerShell and PowerShell DSC, SharePoint / SharePoint Online, Visual Studio Online, SCOM and so on.

Providing development consulting utilizing SharePoint 2007/2010/2013, SharePoint Online, Office 365, 3rd party tools and general custom development on .NET stack.Building up lots of fantastic stuff on top of the following stack:- SharePoint 2007/2010/2013/O365 as a main focus- TFS/TFSOnline, CI/Build controllers as awesome ALM stack- R#/SPCAF/SPCop/SPCAFContrib as the best personal and team scoped code quality tools available - SPSD/SPSF/SPMeta2 as the effective way to create/deploy/upgrade SharePoint solutions- c#/js/ps as some languages I am having fun with- Writing testable and easy upgradable SharePoint solutions as the way to make our clients happy- SSOM/CSOM/JSOM/jQuery/Angular and other fantastic libraries/frameworks to avoid reinvention of the wheel- Code reviews/common libraries development as the way to share knowledge across the team and get team performance to the next level

SubPoint Solutions focuses on making exciting tooling for SharePoint professionals.With a fully non-commercial role of Technology Adviser & Evangelist, I have a rare chance to promote, influence and shape up both open-source and commercial stacks done by SubPoint Solutions team including:* Owning and shaping up SPMeta2 ecosystem future including long-term vision for SPMeta2, SPMeta2 Reverse, SPMeta2 Visual Studio Extensions, SPMeta2 Specs and MetaPack * Setting up QA and regression testing strategy for SPMeta2 ecosystem* Setting up CI/CD technology for SPMeta2 ecosystem* Setting up appropriate technology for commercial tooling* Owning community support channels including social media, github and Yammer* Triage and prioritize ~10 000 requests from ~200 companies resulting in ~1000 tickets over the last years All our core technologies are open source and developed publicly since 2013. Should you have more questions, do not hesitate to put a message on our Yammer network:https://www.yammer.com/spmeta2feedbackAlso, stay tuned with out twitter or give us a live at Facebook:https://twitter.com/subpointsocialhttp://facebook.com/subpointsocial

Providing development consulting utilizing SharePoint 2007/2010/2013, SharePoint Online, Office 365, 3rd party tools and general custom development on .NET stack.Building up lots of fantastic stuff on top of the following stack:- SharePoint 2007/2010/2013/O365 as a main focus- TFS/TFSOnline, CI/Build controllers as awesome ALM stack- R#/SPCAF/SPCop/SPCAFContrib as the bes personal and team scoped code quality tools available - SPSD/SPSF/SPMeta2 as the effective way to create/deploy/upgrade SharePoint solutions- VS/c#/js/PowerShell as some languages I am having fun with- ULSViewer/SharePoint Manager/and other tools as essentials foundation for high performance development environment - Writing testable and easy upgradable SharePoint solutions as the way to make our clients happy- SSOM/CSOM/JSOM/jQuery/Angular and other fantastic libraries/frameworks to avoid reinvention the wheel- Code reviews/common libraries development as the way to share knowledge across the team and get team performance to the next level

Providing development consulting utilizing SharePoint 2007/2010/2013, SharePoint Online, Office 365, 3rd party tools and general custom development on .NET stack.• Generated new business opportunity with NewsGator social platform• Developed and introduced common reusable libraries (dll) and wsp packages for all SharePoint-oriented projects to deliver common functions and features with predictable outcome and better quality• Developed and introduced common PowerShell scripts to deliver common experience for project deployment, configuration, farm provision and testing routines to improve quality and increase team performance• Shared SharePoint experience and assisted peers with issue resolution and code review (QA, performance issues, best practices, general research and recommendations)• Introduced TFS (task management, build servers, Lab Management, web interface, client software, checks policies, etc.) to team via making “What’s TFS?” presentation on weekly technical meeting • Influenced team to utilize TFS via sharing practical “how-to” approaches to improve team performance• Introduced and influenced to implement SCVMM 2008/2012, TFS, ReSharper, SPCAF tool utilization via sharing practical approaches to save time and improve team performance• Helped with Scrum implementation and adoption

Providing development consulting utilizing SharePoint 2007/2010 and general custom development on .NET stack.• Eventually got promoted to a new position. For more information check the previous position

Providing development consulting utilizing SharePoint 2007/2010 and general custom development on .NET stack.• Developed and code-reviewed common reusable libraries for all SharePoint-oriented projects to improve team performance• Shared SharePoint experience and assisting peers with issue resolution and code review• Influenced implementation and utilization of SCVMM/TFS/Lab Management for deployment/configuration and other CI/ALM routines to improve team performance and better QA management• Influenced team members to contribute and participate in Russian SharePoint User Group

Providing custom SharePoint Server 2007 development and consulting.• Initiated migration of legacy reporting system to SSRS 2008 to improve manageability and cut support costs• Facilitated utilization of WSPBuilder over VseWSS Visual Studio extension for general SharePoint project development to improve team performance, increase quality and deployment routines• Introduced and influenced team to use jQuery library for general java script development via practical “how-to 5 minutes session” to increase team performance and improve cross-browser compatibility

Extending SharePoint Server 2007 platform for document management and workflow.• Presented general research of SharePoint 2010 platform for companies most critical issues including data and custom code migration from SharePoint 2007• Introduced CI/general unit tests principles and ideas to cover mission-critical code• Increased internal customer confidence via fixing bugs/issues with unit tests covering and peer-code review

Supporting, bug fixing and new feature development. Client consulting and development team management.• General .NET development including different areas like WinForms, ADO.NET, multi-threading, reporting (via StimulReport system), DevExpress components• General MSSQL development including tables design, view, triggers, stored procedures, custom .NET functions and assemblies • Learnt how to work with clients in different time zones (+3/5 hours) to analyze requirements, change requests, non/functional specifications and provide better custom experience• Learnt how to lead and manage a developer team – 2 developers • Became a stress-resilient, result-oriented developer by regular overtiming and result-focusing• Became a skilled researcher and bug fixer • Built strong soft-skills to work directly with customers • Increased customer confidence by making a stable build (during a year 1000+ issues/bugs were fixed by our team in different areas including UI, business layer, database performance, math calculations, reporting, deployment and upgrade)

Custom asp.net development for two internal CMS system.• Learnt how to work remotely without being in office and under direct control• Developed communication skills to be able managing work via email/Skype

Enlarged SharePoint Server 2007 platform and legacy systems.• Worked directly with top management to develop more effective solutions• Improved legacy reporting systems to improve performance and usability• General bug fixing, refactoring and developing new features in legacy pure asp (not asp.net) web application for internal company CRM• Developed SharePoint Designer workflow • Planned and implemented Business Data Catalog integration with legacy asp/MSSQL CRM system and implement reporting over integrated data

Generic research, data processing and business processes optimization, extending AutoCAD/ArcGIS platforms for company requirements.• General .NET/ASP.NET development including developing custom AutoCAD/ ArcGIS add-ins and web-based UI for custom GIS applications• Researched and prototyped algorithms for custom geo-data and digital maps data processing • Designed and developed add-ins for AutoCAD/ArcGIS application• Designed and developed infrastructure for custom AutoCAD/ ArcGIS add-ins deployment and updates for over 60 workstations• Designed and developed infrastructure for usage statistic reporting for custom AutoCAD/ ArcGIS by all workstation inside the company• Implemented unit testing using NUnitDesigned and develop several web-based GIS application for regional road network, gas station networks, etc.• Worked directly with end users to get feedback and develop more effective and user-friendly solutions