Mikhail Dronov Email & Phone Number

Belgrade, Serbia

- Helping team to build infrastructure and run infrastructure projects in production- Solving incidentsHands on:- AWS, Hetzner cloud, Hetzner robot- Kubernetes, EKS- Terraform, ansible, helm- Improving helm charts, terraform providers- MongoDB, Qdrant administration

Белград, Сербия

- Responsible for Linux-based infrastructure in production- Helped to organize and implement full lifecycle of servers: creating, using, patching- Worked with terraform for creating, scaling, troubleshooting vms in GCP, Alicloud- Contacted with vendors: opened cases, troubleshooted incidents- Researched and adopted Akamai, NS1 routine processes to CI/CD pipelines with terraform. Achieved 30-40% speed up for these processes- Refactored Akamai resources for better daily using: Properties, WAF, Caching, etc- Troubleshooted a lot of internal incidents with Akamai, NS1 and other external services- Adopted IaC methodologies for daily routines: setup CI-CD pipelines, worked with terraform- Refactored tons of Nginx configs. Setup reverse/tcp stream proxy. Setup CI-CD pipeline with GitLab CI. Setup LB scheme in GCP- Proactive helped in incidents troubleshooting across many teams (IT, RnD, etc)- Wrote couple of ops-utilities in golang to work with NS1 API - Participated in many DoS mitigation activities using Akamai- Edited and wrote Ansible rolesHands on:RHEL/CentOS, Ansible, Containers, Git, CI/CD (GitLab), GCP, Alicloud, Terraform, Akamai, CDN/WAF/etc, Foreman, Patching servers, IT support, ITIL

- Organized CI/CD processes to help several development team release software products faster and faster- Helped build internal infrastructure based on Debian servers- Helped with migrating servers from old versions of Debian to Debian 10 Buster- Helped several teams to setup convenient ci/cd pipeline at Ruby on Rails projects- Rewrote a lot of ruby plugins for custom monitoring system based on Chef infrastructure- Packed services to deb packages and organized CI/CD Gitlab pipelines with aptl- Maintained legacy Kubernetes cluster for staging environment, managed metallb LB- Worked with old HP Proliant hardware, maintain Proxmox clusterUsed:Linux, Debian, Docker, Chef/Ansible, Aptly, CI/CD, Legacy, Operations, k8s (staging), Ruby, Proxmox

Ulyanovsk, Russia

- Leaded local team of 2 engineers for porting linux to new IPC cameras- Re-engineered and ported custom u-boot and Linux kernel to IPC cameras using vendor SoC SDK (~60 models)- Contacted with many RnD teams to integrate IPC cameras to video-streaming service- Organized deploy+update+testing processes for 500K devices based on Gitlab CI/CD- Reviewed factory production lines in China and performed some security audits- Contacted with many vendors in development, research and design activities- Created build system for firmwares and packed it as external SDK for partners- Leaded engineering workshops for company partners- Organized several hardware hackathons for engineers (Skolkovo, Rostelecom, etc)Used:Linux kernel, Porting Linux kernel modules to new IPC hardware, Embedded Linux (IPC cameras), С/shell programming, Porting firmwares with Linux kernel on various embedded arm-devices, Porting u-boot, busybox, Hacking the best programmer ever: ch341a, ESP8266, CI/CD, Testing devices, Engineering management

Ul’Yanovsk, Russia

- Started to work as Linux Firmware engineer for vanilla Linux + U-boot porting to IPC cameras- Learned how to use buildroot, yocto and other firmware building systems- Learned how to write simple kernel modules and edit existing- Learned how to reverse-engineered and reproduce firmware based on U-boot + LinuxUsed: Linux, Buildroot, U-boot, Shell, C

Ul’Yanovsk, Russia

- Continued to work as middle web software engineer

Ulyanovsk, Russia

- Started to work as junior software engineer- Participated in a lot of commercial web projects as full stack developer- Learned a lot of methodologies how to write clear and understandable code- Participated in several international projects based on Ruby on Rails- Packed web services in docker containers from Vagrant configurationsUsed:Ruby on Rails, React JS, Gems, React JS, Backbone JS, Linux, Docker, Vagrant,Ansible

- Started career as system engineer based on Linux infrastructure- Provided a valuable lifecycle for php application in production- Integrated git to development processes for the first time in career - Packed php-written service with all dependencies to iso image for installing without internet- Maintained several Ubuntu-based serversUsed:Linux, Ubuntu, Git, php, Bash