Nikita Maslakov Email & Phone Number

Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

In my role on the platform team, I specialized in providing development and CI/CD process improvement services, with a focus on implementing DevOps and SRE practices. My contributions included:- Promote and facilitate the development of an Infrastructure as Code culture using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab and ArgoCD.- Extensive experience with Linux systems, primarily Debian, ensuring optimal system performance and stability.- Transformed the provisioning process of Kubernetes clusters from bash-based setups to automated deployment using Ansible and Terraform.- Provisioned and maintained Kubernetes clusters on both virtual machines and bare metal environments using Ansible.- Implemented resource management using Terraform and IaC pattern.- Implemented ArgoCD for simplified and automated cluster post-bootstrap setup and application management.- Automated management of a self-hosted GitLab instance using Ansible, focusing on installation, updates and configuration.- Managed Nexus Repository/Proxy, serving thousands of clients with reliable and secure software artifact management.- Worked on improving observability using Opentelemery, Node-exporter, Prometheus, Grafana, Signoz.- Provided new capabilities for managing ML workloads by integrating bare metal GPU nodes into Kubernetes using Ansible and GPU-Operator.- Added some new self-hosted services for development teams, such as Excalidraw, TabbyML, Nuclio.Key Technologies: - Kubernetes - Calico - ArgoCD - Ansible - Terraform - Gitlab - Unbound - Haproxy - Nexus - Prometheus - Grafana - PostgreSQL - Clickhouse - Signoz - GPU-Operator - Debian - Talos

Worked as part of a product team and provide full-circle DevOps support to developers, BA, QA, and support engineers.In my current role, I managed the build, deployment and maintenance of multiple microservice applications using Gitlab, Kubernetes, Docker, Kaniko and Istio.Implemented monitoring, tracing and alerting solutions using Grafana, ELK, Prometheus, Alertmanager, VictoriaMetrics and Jaeger.Developed infrastructure as Code using Gitlab, Helm and jsonnet.Managed databases and brokers including PostgreSQL, Aerospike and Kafka.Implemented secrets management for application using HC Vault.Wrote automation scripts in Golang, Python, and Bash.Assisted developers, BAs, QA, and support engineers with DevOps practicesSkills:- Gitlab- Kubernetes- Istio- Helm- jsonnet- Grafana- Jaeger- Prometheus- Alertmanager- VictoriaMetrics- ELK/EFK stack- Docker- Kaniko- Jmeter- Pytest- Allure- SonarQube- Sentry- Nginx- PostgreSQL- Patroni- PGBouncer- Kafka- Aerospike- Vault- Golang- Python

Moscow, Russia

Jan '18 to Feb 20'Lead Infrastructure Engineer / Head of ServiceDesk support group.Feb' 20 to Sep 21:Head of Infrastructure Departament.Key areas of improvements:Administration:Hyper-V, Windows Server, ActiveDirectory, DFS, WSUS etc.PostgreSQLVM with Windows Server, CentOS, Ubuntu Server, Docker.Workstations (Mac/Windows, 50+).Servers management automation (ansible).Network automation (mikrotiks/zyxel - ansible, templating, IaC(git)).-Monitoring:Zabbix & Grafana implemention.-ServiceDesk:Management of support engineers, organization and optimization of ITSM process & interaction, employees education.Management of problems, incidents, service requests based on ManageEngine SD.-Knowledge management:KB management in ManageEngine SD+.Implementation of wiki.js Knowledge Base using docker & git, organization of interaction processes with 1-2L Service Desk engineers.-Backup:Implementation and configuration of Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam One.Preparation of the retention scheme, management of backup/DR process, implementation of the visualization of the backup statuses (Zabbix+Powershell scripts).-Security:Network and servers security incidents analysis.Key Management - implementation of bitwarden_rs using docker, organization of interaction of 1-2L ServiceDesk engineers with key-management system.implementation of Eset ESMC.-Retail shops support (~75 units ):Automate administration of network devices, servers and workstations, management of IT support processes, Full cycle management of various retail infrastructure projects, processes of interaction with contractors, suppliers etc.

Moscow

Lead ServiceDesk engineerexperience with Service Desk process management (ITIL/ITSM, configuration OTRS ticketing system, configuration SharePoint ServiceDesk web-portal, documentation, instructions, plans and Visio-schemes, etc)

Moscow

1st line of technical support (b2b SaaS virtualization services) in the datacenter virtualization departament (diag experience with VMware vCloud, vCenter, vDirector, VDI, ESXi, Veeam Backup )Service desk support - experience with OTRS, SharePoint, Zabbix, Grafana, ActiveDirectory, network diag, etc

Moscow, Russia