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- Automation and virtualisation of the CI for mobile apps development on Jenkins running on OS X VMware VMs- Infrastructure setup and support of startup projects on AWS

Taking the automation and universality of the cloud infrastructure setup to the next level for the benefit of all customers

Helping enterprises to achieve their goals leveraging AWS cloud provisioning and DevOps best practices. Developing custom turnkey solutions of fully automated zero-maintenance infrastructure stacks

- Automation of provisioning and orchestration of configuration management setup for internal projects: hooking Puppet on Ansible steroids - Contributing to the in-house developed Python toolkit for managing projects on AWS- Pulp server environment setup for provisioning CentOS 7 systems

Support of the CloudFoundry platform for development of the bleeding edge PAAS project in distributed team of talented and dedicated individuals, using such technologies as Nginx, Chef, Ansible, AWS EC2, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis and Ruby- Full automation of the CI pipeline from the development PR builds through integration testing to master deployments on disposable and reproducible - CloudFoundry binary build design and implementation for rapid bootstrap of the environments- Auto-generation of continuous integration environments based on templates and Jenkins API- Streamlined automated deployments of the Node.js apps onto the CloudFoundry platform by designing a reusable script library and employing it in all installation scripts- Fully automated Jenkins load balancing jobs: from requesting spot instances across several regions, to deployment, launch, test, stats collection and clean-up using Amazon EC2 API

Bringing DevOps skills to a new level taking the expertise of the front lines application support into the trenches of code development.

Leading and driving projects on centralised configuration and unified control management of a distributed infrastructure supporting a self-maintained environment for a Tomcat hosted Java application with MS SQL back-end database and indexing services- Promote and support of the “Infrastructure as Code” approach and DevOps culture: centralised configuration management with Puppet servers, test-driven development of maintenance scripts in Ruby, automating deployment processes with Capistrano- Conceptual design and implementation of configuration control of > 160 geographically distributed Linux systems with Puppet. Development of service modules, team coaching- Integration of maintenance, monitoring and backup scripts with the DNS and monitoring dashboard for tasks to run timely on right servers, not clashing with maintenance downtimes- Building comprehensive function libraries to facilitate construction of operational scripts and utilities - Planning maintenance activities of various levels of complexity: from application releases and server migrations to full-blown data centre relocations- Improved company’s disaster recovery readiness by creating a highly configurable modular file queue synchronisation daemon: backup delays shortened from hours to minutes, cutting costs on reduced file retransmittals

- Development of the in-house quantum chemical code ReSpect for calculation of the NMR and EPR parameters (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance)- Configuration and maintenance of Linux computational clusters: a distributed network cluster of 30 multiprocessor PCs and a high-performance highly available 40-node Beowulf cluster. Ensuring clusters’ continuous operation and constant availability with apprehensive setup and automated backup procedures.

- Improved computational efficiency of the module used for integration in the in-house quantum chemical code ReSpect- Extended the range of NMR and EPR properties and methods available for computation with ReSpect- Provided visualisation of the computed data by interfacing ReSpect with the available graphical packages Molden- Maintenance of the Linux computational workstations, arrangement of their interoperation with Windows PCs by means of the Samba server

- SunOS campus mail server performance optimisation- Set up and maintenance of the primary DNS and SQUID proxy servers- Configuration & support of the dedicated Linux routers serving as gateways to the academic network

- Developed the theatre’s web-site with dynamic page generation, based on CGI-scripts mediated interaction of the Apache web-server and PostgreSQL- Set up and support of the required services on the FreeBSD server: DHCP, DNS, Sendmail, Apache, PostgreSQL- Administration of the Windows NT computers local domain