Twenty years, a few good systems.

Head of Infrastructure and Science

Spearheaded comprehensive overhaul of infrastructure and engineering culture. Orchestrated 7-figure cost savings. Managing 7000+ services across dozens of clusters and thousands of nodes. Pure IaaC state with zero-downtime EKS lifecycle management.

• •99.999% uptime
• •Pure IaaC self-service
• •7-figures cost efficiency

AI/ML Lead (Contract)

Single-handedly scaled AI capabilities from nascent to millions of users. Architected hyperscale Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP. Designed state-of-the-art Inference Platform with 400% efficiency improvement. Pioneered 'SuperBooga' broker-based solution for high-throughput generative inference.

• •Scale from thousands to millions
• •Built from scratch: pure IaaC
• •GKE GPU cost-efficient fleets

Principal DevOps Engineer

Large scale computing of containerized environments with IaaC on high-availability systems. Kubernetes at large scale with ArgoCD, ArgoRollouts, and ArgoWorkflows. Contributed to mainstream Argo, Nginx Ingress, and Atlantis.

• •Macro-scale ArgoCD
• •Multiple mainstream contributions
• •Self-service IaaC state

SRE Manager (Principal Engineer)

OnPrem to Cloud Migrations expertise. Automation specialist with CI/CD, Terraform, Python, DevSecOps. Observability expert with EFK/Prometheus/Grafana. Led team of 9 members across 2 squads.

• •OnPrem to cloud-native
• •Full DevOps implementation
• •Complete containerization

VP of Reliability Engineering

First SRE on board helping the organization implement SRE practices. Toil reduction by Python. Implementation of Monitoring platform with Prometheus. Definition of SLO, Error budget, Monitoring Dashboards.

• •Observability Platform
• •Tooling and Toil Reduction
• •SLO/ErrorBudgets compositions

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

First line of response in the largest worldwide CDN, over 10k+ physical servers in 200+ locations. Troubleshooting Kafka, ZK, K8s, Mesos, Ceph. DDoS mitigation and performance troubleshooting.

• •SaltStack champion
• •Edge LifeCycle automation
• •Large scale DDoS mitigation

Infrastructure Architect SRE/DevOps

Consulting services for container projects. Deployed Kubernetes, CoreOS, Rancher, and Swarm clusters from scratch in on-premises and cloud environments. Implemented Software Defined Storage solutions. Defined DevOps CAMS standards.

• •K8s/Rancher/Swarm from scratch
• •SDS (ScaleIO, Ceph, Nutanix)
• •DevOps CAMS standards

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Engineered high availability and disaster recovery infrastructure models for Tier-1 applications across two datacenters. Pivotal role in SDLC CD/CI process, automating pipelines using Puppet and Chef.

• •HA/DR across two datacenters
• •CD/CI automation (Puppet/Chef)
• •Tech roadmaps for production

Chinese Student & Freelance

Chinese Mandarin and English language studies. Independent freelance consulting work. Travel and cultural immersion across China.

Infrastructure & CyberSecurity Architect

Defining Networking, Unix, and Security architecture roadmaps. Supervised implementation of new provider solutions and defined best practices and security requirements. Lab design and performance troubleshooting.

• •Security architecture roadmap
• •Lab & test scenario design

Network Security Engineer

In-depth application vulnerability scans. IDS/IPS devices administration. Checkpoint Firewall-1 National Cores administration. Migration of old circuits from Nortel to modern IP solutions.

• •FW-1 National Cores admin
• •Nortel to IP migration
• •Vulnerability assessment

CyberSecurity Engineer

Vulnerability tracking and risk assessment with countermeasures. DDoS mitigation, packet inspection, pattern discovery. Forensic analysis of detected intrusions. SIEM correlation rules design.

• •DDoS mitigation & forensics
• •IPS pattern discovery
• •SIEM rules design

Senior Systems Engineer

Linux infrastructure planning and execution. OS hardening for Linux & Windows. Developed centralized tripwire-like platform from scratch using Python & Expect/TCL. FortiGate and StoneGate firewall administration.

• •Custom tripwire platform (Python)
• •OS hardening specialist
• •NetApp/Kerberos integration

Systems Engineer

Migrations of Bare-metal AIX & Linux to virtualized environments with ESXi & vCenter. Administration of AIX LPAR pSeries big computing servers. SAN storage administration with FastT, Hitachi, McData, Brocade.

• •Bare-metal to ESXi migrations
• •AIX pSeries administration
• •SAN storage (McData/Brocade)

Systems Operations

Administration of Apache and Application Servers with performance troubleshooting. Elaboration of monitoring scripts. Administration of corporate DNS, LDAP, TACACS+ and DHCP servers.

Technical Support Specialist

Platform troubleshooting and incident escalation. Maintenance of platforms, patching, users management. Support for RIMA Network circuits (ADSL). Administration of Radius ACL & Users.