Andrew Szymanski Email & Phone Number

Birkirkara, Mt

Continuing previous role but now as a permanent employee

Birkirkara, Mt

Building, maintaining and supporting Kambi's company-wide multitenant Kubernetes platforms hosted in AWS and on-prem𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱:• 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗: github actions, terraform, terragrunt & atlantis, argoCD, ansible• 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀: Airflow & Jenkins• 𝗸𝟴𝘀: EKS & Rancher on proxmox (PoC) • istio, kiali & jaeger • kyverno • karpenter • keda • opencost & Vantage • 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬: Artifactory, harbor, AWS ECR• 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀: bash, python• 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: Prometheus, promtail, Grafana Cloud, zabbix

Birkirkara, Mt

Overseeing and hands-on involvement in all aspects of migrating Data Platform on-prem infrastructure and applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS)𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆:• 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 & 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀: provisioning, maintenance and support - to enable Development Teams to be fully DevOps / IaaC (terraform, atlantis, argoCD, , ansible)• 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 / 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀: provisioning, maintenance and support (EKS clusters, Airflow, Data Catalog)𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱:• 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗: github actions, terraform, terragrunt & atlantis, argoCD, ansible• 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀: Airflow & Jenkins• 𝗔𝗪𝗦: EKS, EC2, Athena+Glue• 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: Prometheus, promtail, Grafana Cloud, zabbix

Birkirkara, Mt

Overseeing and hands-on involvement in all aspects of building Next Generation Data Platform, including, but not limited to:* architecture, increment planning, work allocation and prioritisation* inventory management, capacity and organic growth planning* creating, provisioning and managing new environments and ecosystems* installation and configuration of new systems, bash and python scripting* automation, end-to-end pipelines, Continuous Delivery, Single Source of Truth Configuration Management* creating standard operating procedures and processes* setting up monitoring, alerts and corresponding documentation* Release, Maintenance and Incident Management* liaising with other departments and stakeholders* training, coaching and interviewing new candidates* end-to-end Azure Machine Learning pipelines automation using privately developed configuration management utilitiesSome of the tools and technologies used:* JIRA, Confluence, bitbucket* bash and python* puppet, ansible, jenkins* kvm, docker* hadoop ecosystem (HDP 2.7 & 3.1), kerberos (heimdal and MIT) & Ranger* Vertica, Pentaho, MongoDB, Kafka, KafkaConnect, MirrorMaker* zabbix, grafana, ELK* anaconda, jupyterhub, azureml

Paris, Fr, Fr

Building Data Lake.

Sliema, Malta, Mt

Kindred Group plc is one of the fastest growing online gaming operators in Europe and is currently developing in-house BigData capabilities.Responsibilities- Owner, Technical Lead and Single Point of Contact for Kindred's all BigData environments- Responsible for infrastructure, automation, user access, security, data pipelines, CI and CD- Solutions Architect and Technical Lead for DevOps, Infrastructure and Development teams- Managing Data Operations Team, consisting of Level 1, Level 2 and DevOps Engineer- Managing 3rd party Support (HortonWorks, DataStax, Elastic, Datameer)- Work prioritization (using JIRA). Backlog and Technical Debt management- Liaison between Infrastructure, Development, Data Science, BI, ETL and DWH Teams- Full management of Production environment including system admin, users, access, permissions,monitoring, alerts and support handover to operations, documentation, training new staffAchievements- Created all Big Data environments, including Production, each consisting of multi-node clusters: HDP, ElasticSearch, Cassandra and HDF (~15 clusters, ~100 nodes). HDP fully kerberized.- Ambari and HDP upgrades in all environments, including Production (4 upgrades x 4)- Installation, configuration and management of Kerberos and Ranger in all environments- Creation of deployment pipelines for Unibet's BigData applications- Environment configuration management - introduced a Single Source of Truth solution which unites 4distinct technologies used (HDP, ElasticSearch, Cassandra and in-house apps)BigData Technologies- HortonWorks Data Platform (HDP)- ElasticSearch (Elastic)- Cassandra (DataStax)- Splunk- HDF / NifiSetup and configuration of client tools in kerberized environments:- Anaconda- jupyter - jupyterhub- talend- datameerToolSet- puppet- ansible- bash / python- ThoughtWorks GO

New York, Ny, Us

Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth and investment management. It has operations in over 50 countries and territories and has around 48 million customers.RefData department is a Golden Source of Client and Reference data and feeds around 300 downstream systems firm-wide.- Managing complex and often mutually exclusive release schedules affecting over 300 downstream systems- Preparing all release materials, including technical documentation and Release Notifications sent to over 4,000 business stakeholders - Facilitating platforms and escalation points for Business to resolve any conflicts and issues- Representing Releases in CABs meetings to discuss release scope and roadblocks. Chairing GO / NO-GO callsGO calls- Driving automation projects to reduce time and costs for environment provisioning, deployments and data refreshes.- Forecasting of organic growth of storage, CAPEX, scheduling and managing mandatory software / hardware upgrades.- Environments Management: install, build, environment allocations, troubleshooting and managing bookings.- Automation and management of E2E data refreshes spanning across 6 systems and beyond.

London, Gb

News International is a publisher of The Sun, Times and Sunday TimesNews Corporation is one of the largest media group in the world, incorporating News International, 20th Century Fox, Dow Jones etc. - Reporting to CTO- Responsible for R&D of cutting edge technologies (Google Cloud, AWS, Big Data) and turning them into enterprise, productionised solutions- Creator, owner, administrator and gate keeper of all Google Cloud and Big Data environments- Involved in defining the Big Data roadmap, strategies, best practices and guidelines across the organization- Coordinating efforts between Infrastructure, Development, Data Science, BI, ETL, DWH and SAP Teams- Full lifecycle of a CDH on AWS Hadoop solution, including analysis, architecture and application design, configuration management, performance turning, workflows and deployment processes.- Design, Architecture and provisioning of E2E Customer Insights Platform (CDH on AWS with S3 as redundant storage). Solution productionized and rolled out to other News Corp regions (USA, Bulgaria, Australia) – including documentation, training and support- Designed, wrote and implemented “Employee Directory” for News UK (GWT/ Java & python) on Google App Engine using Google Datastore). Integration and automation of daily updates from HR SAP system.- Created Auto Configuration SSOT deployment process - various components such as nginx, virtualenv, tornado web socks and upstart are auto-configured during deployment to ensure full integrity of the install- Jenkins Evangelist: Utilized Jenkins as pipeline scheduler, to build and deploy Java, python and GAE applications, data workflows and pipelines, backup and restore utilities, logging and monitoring, daily exports from HR SAP and even to run Elastic MapReduce (EMR) on AWS. Presentation to the whole TECH department.

London, Gb

Achievements:- Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server set-up, including Apache 2.2, Subversion (using directory services for authentication), mod_dav_svn, Hudson and custom, bash and perl scripted launchd jobs- Hudson automated builds (xcodebuild) triggered by SVN commits. - Parametrised OS X server 'on-demand' Adhoc distribution builds enable anyone to build and download iPad application without need for Mac OS/XCode environment or prior knowledge of development process. A dream solution for remote testers who can now trigger the build for a particular version of the App and download created Adhoc distro.- Management of user and system-wide provisioning profiles and their distribution to all stakeholders. Hudson 'on-demand' Adhoc distribution builds provide a selection of available provisioning profiles to choose from, to be used for code signing the adhoc distribution App- App Store applications are now built using automated 'on-demand' jobs- Created Logic and App OCUnit (SenTestingKit) framework for all projects.- Build Server environment is automatically refreshed with the latest Provisioning Profile provided, using AppleScript (osascript) called from within perl. UUID and application id are extracted from provisioning profile as well and XCode settings updated accordingly.

Newport, Shropshire, Gb

- Sole Developer of a new iPhone game- WordPress Developer of multilingual e-Commerce web site - Webmaster / SEO Consultant of culica's website

New York, Ny, Us

Finance / Banking: Derivatives, FX, Equities, Settlements, ReconciliationsOperating System: UNIX (Sun Solaris) Programming languages: - shell scripting (bourne, korn & C shell) - expert- perl - expert - python - basic - C++ - intermediate (10+ years of on/off experience)- Java - basic- Monitoring, managing and supporting Unix Financial Systems located worldwide- Bug fixes, improvements and adding new functionality to existing applications- Responsible for Source Control and Release Management of our software (quarterly cycles)- Coaching and Training newcomers in how to be efficient and productive using Unix environment- Streamlining and automating our development and release processes. Continuous Integration.Agile Development With Scrum

Pune, Maharashtra, In

Managing projects, liaison with clients, actual prototyping, design and coding, helping company with its internal procedures, streamlining and automating company's processes

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Also known as: CFS Europe Ltd, CFS Group Ltd, International Decision Systems, IDS

Also known as: Scheduling Technology Group / Manugistics / JDA Software Group, Inc.Design and development of a new suite of applications for integration of the company products with SAP ERP system. The product was certified by SAP.

Design, development, installation and support of Electronic Document Management and WorkFlow Systems for Goverment organisations. Administration and migrations of MSSQL and Oracle databases on Unix and Windows NT systems, Visual Basic, ODBC, OCR For Forms.

Windows NT System Administration, VC++, SQL and MSSQL server administration.

Also known as: Scheduling Technology Group / Manugistics / JDA Software Group, Inc.RPC client-server software, Mixing C & C++, Visual Basic, ODBC, MS Access & Oracle, Microsoft Windows System Programming

Also known as: Chordiant SoftwareLarge relational databases, data warehousing

Chelmsford, Ma, Us

Also known as: Information For Marketing, Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing (?)BS5750 standards, Consultancy, Design and Development of processes, tools and procedures for IT Operations.

Conway, Arkansas, Us

Revamping clients’ in-house databases. Introducing standards and procedure, streamlining processes

Also known as: Adare IntellidataStreamlining processes, introducing and implementing new methodologies and tools for data processing of this Direct Mail company.

Western Equivalent Unknown, Economics Of Trade

A Levels Equivalent, Maths, Physics