Google cloud from 0 to 60 in 6 month. Kubernetes at scale.

Turn (acquired by Amobee) is one of the leading advertising technology demand side platforms (DSP) and DMP companies with 5mil+ transactions a second & 50 PB+ Big Data store across world wide hybrid cloud environment.Took over management of the team while maintaining architect responsibilities. Made needed changes in personnel, championed deployment of Kanban-based methodology that was later adopted across all of TechOps. Transitioned team to DevOps approach. Focused team operation to embrace Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment for every key infrastructure process - such as DNS and CDN management, monitoring, docker image builds, configuration management. Played a key role in onboarding offshore team as Tier2 Operations Support and DevOps resource while implementing follow-the-sun approach. Initiated transition to service discovery, auto-registration and dynamic resource scheduling. Achieved 100% peer review score for standard changes to production infrastructure. Implemented self-serve monitoring/alerting solution which streamlined and greatly improved platform monitoring coverage. Transitioned large portion of NOC runbooks into automatic service remediation workflows. Enforced policy of “no snowflakes” in production environment. Standardized QA stack and helped transition to on-demand environment provisioning. Rebuilt reputation of several key internal services previously considered poorly maintained and slow by constantly, incrementally improving level of service. Improved cross-team interfaces and dependency tracking. Technical and hands on involvement: made architectural/design decisions, reviewed and challenged product requirement documents, participated in technical design reviews, developed infrastructure strategy aligned with product and engineering forecasts, code reviews, build/deployment planning, CAB member, capacity management and planning, next-gen hardware configuration design.

Deployment at scale, automation, monitoring, expert full stack troubleshooting, performance tuning, devops, capacity management and next-gen hardware platform design.Solo projects:Fully automated bare-metal/virtual-machine build/rebuild(Foreman, Puppet, Ruby, shell). Large scale deployments UI, network discovery (Ruby Rails, jQuery, Juniper, Foreman integration). Automated/templated RAID provisioning(kickstart, shell). LDAP to Puppet user account sync, ssh key management system(php, git). Single source of truth, systems inventory(CouchDB, Ruby, nokogiri). Fully automated Hard Disk tracking/inventory/stats(CouchDB, Ruby, jQuery, Bootstrap). Emergency access workflow(Jira, mcollective, Ruby, OAuth). Team projects:Automated monitoring configuration generator(Ruby+erb, Nagios). Hadoop management(Puppet). Automated select systems/app problem remediation(Nagios, Puppet, Python/Ruby). Server hardware maintenance(Puppet, shell). Primary owner of CDN operations, global SSL configuration, DNS global load balancing, Zookeeper, Kafka, PagerDuty integrations.

Managed local IT integration activities after acquisition of Trolltech Inc. Transferred IT infrastructure of Trolltech offices to Nokia IT with minimum disruptions. Picked up Nokia Research Center internet hosting infrastructure after group of five was laid off. Maintained and evolved infrastructure to a global scale under new management. Daily activities include management of 200+ physical and virtual hosts each with its very own customized setup according to rapidly changing customer needs, multi-petabyte storage arrays, local attached storage as well as complex network infrastructure (hands-on LAN and Firewall management). Developed and leading automation efforts within the team. Rolled out beta IaaS private cloud offering while being member of technical committee for cloud implementation. Actively involved in customization of monitoring metrics and high-availability setup tuning. Issues resolution in two Tier1 datacenters and five satellite/office locations, hardware installation and maintenance services in local bay area datacenters. Member of global VMWare Service Team (2000+ VMs). Backup, monitoring, continuous infrastructure improvement, security assessments and documentation as required. Most interesting part of current job is to meet research teams, learn about their project requirements and goals and convert this information into infrastructure architecture design.

Solely responsible for California office IT infrastructure, conducted 200% user base growth and office relocation. Created and prioritized long term and short term strategic plans and budget for infrastructure development based on business processes and profitability requirements. Converted support functions from reactive to pro-active type. Managed vendor relationships ensuring the highest availability of hardware, software, and services. Responsible for all IT procurement functions. Worked under minimum supervision while being an active influencer and implementer to most enterprise-wide projects run by IT Director in Oslo. California office was a common pilot and proof of concept site. Acted as a part of distributed enterprise 24x7 support team. Trained users on existing and new infrastructure features enabling most efficient practices. Known to be an excellent problem solver. Performed system backup restore procedures, aligned backup policy in accordance with the company's business continuity strategies. Successfully accomplished migration from the diversity of mail systems(Cyrus, Lotus Notes) to the new corporate standard: Scalix.

Front office and back office end users support. Received and documented IT service requests from local and remote system users via Remedy, phone and/or email. Supported bank's deeply customized and secured WinXP/Win2003 environment with large use of Citrix Metaframe applications and Visual Basic scripting. Managed Active Directory/LDAP groups and users, executed global access control requests, acted as part of global user acceptance testing team, DR site establishment and test team. Managed desktop hardware(HP, Compaq) and software, Blackberry devices, dealer turrets(Syntegra), network printers(HP, 50+) and print server following strict corporate standards. Handled backup jobs. Created several automation scripts to administer desktop PCs in domain and Active Directory tree. Supported two office moves 150+ users and 30+ servers each and firm wide NT4/Domain to XP/Win2003/AD migration

Network operations center technical maintenance. Interacted with domestic and international channel service providers, TV/radio broadcast companies, VoIP carriers to resolve inter-network issues. Logged, tracked, resolved data transmission systems issues: SDH (Nortel), FrameRelay (RAD, Aurora, FireBERT6000 protocol analyzers), PABX(Avaya Definity, Nortel Meridian). Controlled IP and MPLS networks (Cisco), ground and satellite channels as first level support engineer. Monitored and troubleshooted network of ADSL-connected clients (300+).