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Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

- Lead engineering teams across development and operations for all company projects.- Promote a positive work environment by fostering teamwork, open communication, and employee recognition initiatives.- Train new team members by according to procedures and best engineering practices developed in the team.- Manage a team responsible for the smooth operation of internal and external environments.- Drive key infrastructure and automation projects to enhance system efficiency and reliability.- Collaborate with other department leads to streamline workflows within agile development project, improve interdepartmental coordination, and achieve business goals collectively.- Remain hands-on in deployment and maintenance of our applications in customer infrastructure, improving applications, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and managing Kubernetes migration projects and infrastructure development.Achievements:- Successfully deployed and transitioned project logging to Graylog improving log management.- Established uniform monitoring of all servers across the teams, improving infrastructure efficiency- Initiated and completed the migration of public services into a DMZ, enhancing security protocols.- Established regular training sessions for the engineering team, where each engineer leads a workshop on a newly learned and implemented technology, sharing insights and its practical benefits.

Ufa, Russia

- Ensured smooth operation of development, testing, and production environments (VMware vSphere, Linux system administration, PostgreSQL, JRE, Tomcat, nginx, Docker).- Configured and maintained 150+ virtual machines using VMware and VirtualBox (Windows and Linux servers).- Created and improved continuous integration pipelines (BitBucket, Nexus, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Vagrant, shell scripting).- Configured and deployed logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions (Elasticsearch, Fluentbit, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana).- Deployed services for development and testing teams (Redis, nginx load balancing, Kerberos authentication, TestIT automated testing platform).- Managed network services including DNS, firewall rules, and authentication systems.- Supported application deployment in customer infrastructures.- Developed dashboards for monitoring project statuses and team workload (Pentaho, MS Project).Achievements:-Migrated environments from VMs to containers, reducing deployment times by 50% and improving stability.- Established a pipeline for building DEB release packages and storing them in a local repository, streamlining customer deliveries.- Deployed a private Docker registry (VMWare Harbor), reducing external dependencies and deployment times.- Configured a fault-tolerant PostgreSQL cluster in the customer infrastructure (etcd cluster, Patroni), contributing to contract acquisition.- Set up environments for automated testing and load testing in Yandex.Cloud, enabling independent testing by the QA team.- Introduced vulnerability scanning to Jenkins pipelines (Trivy) enhancing release security.- Deployed an integration of Rocket.Chat, Jitsi Meet and Nextcloud to improve team communication and collaboration.- Led research on cloud migration and Kubernetes deployment, optimizing infrastructure and observability.

Tbilisi, Georgia

- Developed and implemented automated testing pipelines for mobile applications using LambdaTest and Appium, enhancing testing efficiency and reliability.- Created data processing pipelines for CSV and Google Sheets using Google Cloud Functions, improving data handling and automation.- Conducted weekly analyses of key application metrics using AppLovin, providing insights to optimize performance.- Orchestrated and facilitated a seamless transition to Yandex.Metrika for in-app metrics tracking.- Regularly analyzed key in-app metrics using Yandex.Metrika to inform decision-making and enhance user engagement.- Led and managed the successful migration from Tenjin to Singular, enhancing marketing analytics capabilities

Tbilisi, Georgia

- Maintained test environments across AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, ELB), vSphere, and bare-metal setups.- Worked in an Agile team delivering updates using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Flux, and Jenkins- Created new Kubernetes clusters in EKS using Terraform.- Participated in on-call rotations as the first point of contact for environment issues.- Developed and enhanced Grafana dashboards for improved monitoring.Achievements:- Initiated and conducted hardware cost analysis and optimization on AWS, reducing monthly expenses by 20%.- Initiated review and optimized infrastructure by clustering segments and minimizing cross-region traffic, further reducing costs.- Mentored a group of engineers, guiding them through a smooth transition into our team and helping them integrate seamlessly into our workflow.

Nicosia, Cyprus

- Configured monitoring of Kubernetes clusters (5 regions on Hetzner servers) deployingkube-prometheus-stack with Helm.- Set up comprehensive cluster monitoring and Telegram alerts using Prometheus, Grafana,and Alertmanager.- Deployed Graylog for centralized log storage and analysis in the Kubernetes cluster.- Configured Kubernetes RBAC for secure namespace access.- Developed and optimized Kubernetes manifests and Grafana dashboards.Achievements:- Deployed Victoria Metrics for application metrics improving stability and reducing expenses.- Deployed an image validation service based on the Yahoo Open NSFW project within the Kubernetes cluster.- Implemented parameterized Android Unity project builds in GitLab CI using GameCI, enhancing pipeline efficiency and improving build times.

Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

- Developed from scratch and maintained company websites using Drupal CMS.- Set up and managed Drupal backend on AWS (EC2 and S3), Acquia, and Omega8 Aegir.- Handled frontend development with CSS and JavaScript.- Set up production and development environments (LAMP stack, nginx, MariaDB, PHP-FPM, Apache Solr).

Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

- Managed a network infrastructure supporting over 50,000 devices across multiple sites (VLAN, BGRP, PPTP, PPPoE, DNS, DHCP).- Assisted customers with Internet and phone connectivity issues.- Configured D-Link L2/L3 switches and resolved LAN issues remotely.- Wrote Bash scripts for tasks including remote firmware updates on routers.- Supported senior administrators with customer website hosting challenges