Max Brydak (She/Her) Email & Phone Number

Secure SaaS - private and encrypted hybrid solutions in cloud native technologies and distributed systems

Freelance Kubernetes Consulting• Migration CI/CD pipelines from Gitlab CI to Github Actions, while augmenting it with continuous security scanning with SonarQube and Trufflehog andde-coupling CI from CD, utilizing FluxCD.• Design and implementation of Pytorch MLOps pipelines with Github Actions.• Design and implementation of various Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal and cloud infrastructure.• Reduced deployment time by 90%, decreased infrastructure costs by 60%, reduced… Show more Freelance Kubernetes Consulting• Migration CI/CD pipelines from Gitlab CI to Github Actions, while augmenting it with continuous security scanning with SonarQube and Trufflehog andde-coupling CI from CD, utilizing FluxCD.• Design and implementation of Pytorch MLOps pipelines with Github Actions.• Design and implementation of various Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal and cloud infrastructure.• Reduced deployment time by 90%, decreased infrastructure costs by 60%, reduced the number of manual steps involved in deployments by 70%.• End-to-end redesign of customer's AWS infrastructure with IaC implementation and migration from ElasticBeanstalk to GitOps managed EKS.• Tech stack: AWS, Azure, GCP, K3s, K8s, EKS, AKS, GKE, Prometheus Grafana, Loki, Gitlab CI, Github Actions, Jenkins, FluxCD. Show less

Krakow Metropolitan Area

• Designed and implemented a production Hashicorp Nomad cluster on Azure cloud, with proper security hardening on the OS layer according to CISbenchmarks for Almalinux, with split-horizon DNS setup from on-prem infrastructure to Azure via Azure Private DNS Resolver.• Switched ~80 Linux services from CentOS 6, 7 & 8 to AlmaLinux, with 100% uptime.• Led the upgrade of internal HR platform from Python 3.6 to 3.11 & migratiion from shared hosting environment to a standalone VM with 100%… Show more • Designed and implemented a production Hashicorp Nomad cluster on Azure cloud, with proper security hardening on the OS layer according to CISbenchmarks for Almalinux, with split-horizon DNS setup from on-prem infrastructure to Azure via Azure Private DNS Resolver.• Switched ~80 Linux services from CentOS 6, 7 & 8 to AlmaLinux, with 100% uptime.• Led the upgrade of internal HR platform from Python 3.6 to 3.11 & migratiion from shared hosting environment to a standalone VM with 100% uptime.• Managed a fleet of ~700 KVM virtual machines spread across multiple bare-metal hypervisors using Puppet & Ansible.• I've taken an active role in reorganizing the team culture, helping, to move it from "everybody owns everything" model to a structure based onKubernetes's SIG model, which helped to eliminate the areas of technical expertise with bus factor of 1.• Upgraded the Icinga Web 2 monitoring platform from 2.7 to 2.11, mitigating multiple CVEs within a week. Plan took 6 hours to research and execute, andwas deployed successfully on production infrastructure by following the procedure outlined in the official documentation. Show less

◦ Design and implementation of 3 Tier architecture on AWS using CloudFormation:◦ Design and implementation of 3 Tier architecture on AWS using Terraform:◦ Provisioning Jenkins Instance using Terraform and implementation of full CI/CD pipelines usingJenkinsfile:◦ Dockerization of Wordpress application and deployment on ECS:◦ Deployment of Wordpress app on EKS using Terraform:◦ Tech stack: AWS: RDS, EC2, EKS, ECS, EFS, ECR; Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Packer… Show more ◦ Design and implementation of 3 Tier architecture on AWS using CloudFormation:◦ Design and implementation of 3 Tier architecture on AWS using Terraform:◦ Provisioning Jenkins Instance using Terraform and implementation of full CI/CD pipelines usingJenkinsfile:◦ Dockerization of Wordpress application and deployment on ECS:◦ Deployment of Wordpress app on EKS using Terraform:◦ Tech stack: AWS: RDS, EC2, EKS, ECS, EFS, ECR; Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Packer, CloudFormation, Jenkins Show less

Monitoring Infrastructure: Monitoring production environments on Oracle Linux using company-internally developed tools. Handling incidents & tickets submitted by customers. Managing and monitoring on-prem & AWS infrastrucutre. Creating automation tools using, but not limited to Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform.

Wrocław, Woj. Dolnośląskie, Polska

– Frontend development with ReactJS– UX/UI design

Wrocław, Woj. Dolnośląskie, Polska

Administrated development environments: Dockerized LAMP Stack development environments provisioned with Terraform. Provided IT support, managed IT equipment inventory, and performed hardware configuration. Developed system documentation, including documentation for new Kubernetes-based infrastructure based on atomic design similar to Kubernetes SIGs concept. Provided technology consulting and took an active part in designing the Kubernetes infrastructure, completing R&D for… Show more Administrated development environments: Dockerized LAMP Stack development environments provisioned with Terraform. Provided IT support, managed IT equipment inventory, and performed hardware configuration. Developed system documentation, including documentation for new Kubernetes-based infrastructure based on atomic design similar to Kubernetes SIGs concept. Provided technology consulting and took an active part in designing the Kubernetes infrastructure, completing R&D for the selection of GitOps module of the infrastructure. Processed customer change requests and reported problems and managed the process of solving these issues. Coordinated the Support department, onboarded new support staff, and created training and orientation materials for newly hired employees. Developed Support department procedures and documentation and supported the SecDevOps team in the development of the Titans24 infrastructure. Participated in meetings related to infrastructure upgrades. Handled client support and communication and designed client onboarding business processes. Show less

Wrocław, Woj. Dolnośląskie, Polska

– Managing the support team– Day do day communication with app users and handling incidents– Monitoing incidents in GCP Console: Log analysis both for creating monthly reports and as incident response– Conducting communication on the App Store and Play Store STOP COVID - Protego Safe– Monitoring of email support requests STOP COVID - Protego Safe– Creating monthly reports on the work of Support STOP COVID - Protego Safe

Wrocław, Woj. Dolnośląskie, Polska

– IT support– IT equipment management;– Technology consulting;– Maintenance of equipment inventory;– Hardware configuration;– Technical onboarding of new employess

Wrocław, Woj. Dolnośląskie, Polska

– Responsible for legal research related to data protection– Preparing legal opinions

Engineer'S Degree, Computer Science

Student, Communication Design

Curriculum: Theories of communication Communication design Media Discourses Philosophy Media Relations Branding Sociology History.

Student, Law

Activities and Societies: SKN LegalNet (formerly Blok Prawa Komputerowego)