Eugene Brodsky Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Technical jack-of-many-hats: cloud infra architecture, operations, maintenance, web hosting, CI/CD, observability

Seattle, Washington, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

- Integration of commercial and open-source computational biology tools (e.g. Rosetta, MOE, AlphaFold) with ProteinQure’s drug discovery platform - Enabled massive scaling of cloud-native batch workloads using Argo Workflows on Kubernetes (EKS), AWS S3, EFS, EC2. Achieved peak compute performance of ~1.3 PetaFLOPS across 20,000 CPU cores on a single EKS cluster- Contributing to design and development of a protein data warehousing solution and amino acid database, facilitating scientific exploration and wetlab workflows- Supporting ML/AI tools, training/tuning/deployment frameworks (Ray, Argo) - CI/CD pipeline development (Gitlab); introduced, designed and implemented the software build/release lifecycle- Reduced compute infra spend by ~50-70% by integrating K8s and AWS autoscaling, and creative use of AWS Spot Instances in hybrid autoscaling groups- Infrastructure-as-Code continuous deployment using GitOps practices (ArgoCD/Gitlab/Terraform)- Automation of day-to-day operations using Slack bots- Developed a unified infrastructure monitoring solution backed by Prometheus + Grafana stack (Grafana, Loki, Cortex); AWS CloudWatch

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

- Provided guidance and expertise in breaking down of a monolithic platform application into a containerized microservice architecture (Docker, Nomad)- Development of tooling, process, and CI/CD for a range of serverless applications (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, IoT Core; Python, Go, Java)- Integration of 3rd-party hardware vendor systems into company’s value offering- Identifying automation gaps in the delivery pipeline and implementing methods for closing or reducing such gaps (Ansible, Packer, CircleCI, Jenkins)- Infrastructure-as-Code automation (AWS CloudFormation, Terraform)- Working with customer representatives to ensure timely deliverables- Writing tools to improve repeatability and safety of deployments from both Engineering and Operations perspectives (python, boto3, AWS Lambda)

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

As part of the the SRE team, led initiatives in:- Architecture, design, build, and support of the cloud platform for delivery of web applications and microservices;- Implementation utilizing Linux, Rancher, Docker, with an eye on .NET Core and Windows containers. Developed a proof-of-concept on Openshift, but Rancher won out in the end.- Collaborating in design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines- Automation & monitoring of Azure resources and solutions. Infrastructure-as-code using ARM templating and scripting Azure CLI/API.- Building of toolchains and processes with focus on exceptional developer experience, steeped in DevOps and Agile- Integration of public cloud with private on-premise datacenter- Continuous exploration and recommendation of ${X}aaS offerings across the industry

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

As part of the Engineering team, designed, built, launched and led operations of the complete YogaGlo content delivery platform. Focused on self-service, modern tooling, continuous improvement, developer happiness and productivity, in alignment with DevOps practices and philosophy.- AWS EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Redshift- Node.JS/Express, Ember.JS, Python, Docker, Nginx, Redis, Rancher, Scalr, Postgres, MySQL- Developed, released as open source, and continued to maintain the YG engineering toolchain for local dev/build/test pipeline.- Released parts of the above toolchain as open-source: https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-docker-compose- Monitoring, alerting, log aggregation, measurement: New Relic, DynaTrace SaaS, OpBeat, Loggly- ChatOps: botkit, Slack- Continuous integration: Drone.io (self-hosted, fully containerized)- Performance testing: JMeter, Blazemeter- SRE, OpSec, Incident response, resolution, reporting, post-mortem.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

DevOps consulting as part of a software engineering team

0) DevOps & Systems Administration: - Technical operations management for internal and external projects - Architecture, solutions engineering, ongoing support, documentation & maintenance of web app stacks: AWS Autoscaling, CloudFormation, Ubuntu, Puppet, Node.js / Express, Nginx, Apache, PHP / Zend, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis; - Monitoring: Zabbix, Graphite, collectd/statsd - Load testing: JMeter, bees, LoadImpact - Research, recommendation, implementation, support of development lifecycle toolchains: Vagrant, Puppet, Ubuntu, Grunt, SASS, git, Capistrano, aws sdk, Ruby, bash/zsh1) Internal IT services: - Mac OS X / Windows hardware/software support, troubleshooting, end-to-end helpdesk - Internal infrastructure: OS X Server, VMWare ESXi, Sonicwall - Hardware/software purchasing, supplier communication/coordination - Inventory management - Regular backups (NetVault, LTO5) - Wired & wireless networking (Cisco, Ubiquity) - Help change a lightbulb ;)

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Managed all aspects of technology for 567vfx, Relish Editing, and Tendril. Network administration to IT management to desk-side support. Operated as a "department of one", with an option to outsource larger projects as required.Managed on-site and offsite technology stack:- 35 workstations- 8 servers (Mac, CentOS Linux, Windows Server 2008, IBM BladeCenter) - 24-node render farm (Windows, 3ds Max, VRay), - Two Flame Premium visual effects suites, - Four Avid offline editing suites- Co-located FTP/web server- Managed web hostingGained a deep understanding of video editing and VFX industry, workflows and toolsets.This position required balancing priorities between the 3 companies sharing the same office and infrastructure, and being highly available for a nearly 24/7 environment.Carried out hardware upgrades in both Flame suites, including a migration to new Xyratex fibre channel storage units with expanded capacity. This involved quickly learning a great deal about specialized software, protocols, and hardware devices utilized in high-end video post production, as well as proprietary tools from Autodesk and other vendors.Designed and implemented major improvements to network capacity, both wired and wireless, to accommodate for business growth.Managed vendors/suppliers, negotiated agreements with contractors, managed IT budget, hardware and software purchasing, inventoryExpanded 567vfx's capabilities in providing Colour Grading services using Autodesk Lustre Premium and the Autodesk Control SurfaceImplemented the Deadline render management solution across the render farm and Tendril's artist workstationsSpearheaded the company-wide knowledge base initiative by implementing and maintaining an intranet wiki, training staff and encouraging sharing of knowledge.Had an amazing time and a fantastic experience working with some of the most talented artists in the video post/vfx industry.

Burlington, Ontario, Ca

- Provided technical support and systems administration to small - medium businesses, primarily design/creative agencies ranging from 5 to 100+ staff.- Effectively directed IT for some of the largest and most recognized design agencies in Canada.- Led, trained, mentored junior techs and sysadmins- Managed up to 8 clients simultaneously via weekly on-site presence and remote support.- Project planning, coordination, implementation- Conducted technology audits; proposed, developed, implemented business solutions using technology.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

- Information Systems support: Mac OS X & Windows (client/server), UNIX (IRIX)- Network and Server administration (Cisco, Apple, Dell)- Storage administration: Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI- Supported a multi-site worldwide infrastructure of approx. 40 servers.- Management of a virtual environment (VMWare, Parallels)- E-Mail administration (Microsoft Exchange 2007)- Backup administration (BackupExec, FlashNet), disaster recovery planning.- IT project planning, management and coordination, execution- Designed and developed a complete Inventory/Ticket/Change tracking system

Burlington, Ontario, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

- Explored the creative side of things, taking a detour from IT.- As part of the Design Studio team, created internal and client-facing marketing materials, proposals, flyers, informational posters, process visualizations, promotional packages, and all other kinds of visual business communications.- Organized and catalogued the digital asset library. Researched and proposed DAM solutions.- Initiated modernization of production process and migration from QuarkXPress based workflow to Adobe InDesign.

Toronto, On, Ca

Incomplete, Bioinformatics

Architectural Drawing And Drafting

Building Materials And Methods

Honours Diploma, Audio Engineering And Production