I am a Principal DevOps Engineer with over 20 years of development experience, focusing on DevOps for the past 7 years with extensive industry expertise building reliable and scalable products for customers. I provide technical guidance and leadership for the design, development, and delivery of large-scale systems and architecture, undertake security analysis on solutions, manage network and system integrations, infrastructure automation, CI/CD implementation, DevOps, SRE, and Big Data. I work closely with dev teams to drive the adoption of tools and best practices throughout the SDLC to more rapidly and reliably build and deliver secure software services to clients.
Delivers data warehouse and ETL solutions as part of an agile team using advanced machine learning techniques to improve performance and processes.
Helps build and improve infrastructure, application and performance development and ensures tight security including data encryption, security groups, and environment scanning.
Ensures high-quality deliverables and implements DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments.
Built from the ground up an AWS EMR infrastructure and executed an automated data pipeline solution on the project for Cyance.
Designed and implemented the data analysis infrastructure on the project using Dremio (Open Source).
Organized and handled large IaC, CI\CD handover sessions and provided guidance on DevOps best practices and industry standards through 1-1 discussions, mentoring and training.
Designed, researched, developed and supported communication hardware monitoring systems on the project; contributing to architecture and implementation discussions.
Defined, developed, and implemented engineering best practices and strategies for the client's cross-platform facility setup and support (Windows\Linux\Postgres\MSSQL).
Provided test environment support for source code merge, parts integration, Git, SVN, and deploy; ensuring the best possible performance of solutions.
Provided robust integration solutions for multiple servers, databases, full-text search engines, web servers, special services and scripts.
Serve as the point person on software updates, customer support and education, project support documentation, user manual creation, system testing and bug fixing.
Worked cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes on the project; handling multiple successful deployments on-site.
Monitored the company's network system and resolved operational issues with the internet gate, malware defence system, mail system, file servers, backup system, wireless network, structured cable system, internet and intranet portal.
Performed operating system and server resources configuration and deployment to support all business processes.
Developed and maintained an internal wiki with technical documentation, manuals and IT policies on the project for the client.
Worked on the development of the PoC for the multicast mesh project; designing and implementing the PoC for the multicast mesh for the Voice Service SaaS. Developed the OS configurations, scripts and customized MCD, automated Poc AMI creation with all tools and configurations required using Packer, measured the PoC performance, provided testing tools, wrote docs and reports, and handed over the PoC features.
Designed and implemented a data analytics infrastructure using Dremio - working on a highly available, resilient and cost-effective AWS architecture and automated Dremio deployment using Shell Scripting. Automated AWS infrastructure deployment, connected RDS and S3 data sources, and implemented a scalable and resilient infrastructure using autoscaling and provisioning automation.
Worked on the development of a custom AWS EMR data pipeline infrastructure; handling research and development and deployment. Deployed the AWS EMR and automated the data pipeline processes. Configured network isolation and security, provided access to EMR web interfaces and logs to the team, troubleshot and resolved pipeline execution issues. The solution comes with mixed Terraform and Cloudformation deployment, IAM and Network permissions, automated scaling and operations.