Andrey A.

About Me

Andrey is an experienced Engineer with 18+ years of industry expertise and know-how in the provision of diverse IT approaches, infrastructure and solutions for the cloud, containerization, Linux and DevOps. He has the technical wherewithal to manage large DevOp infrastructure; having provided 100% uptime for 300+ VMs in AWS, handled large sharded databases (20+ servers and 30+ Tb of Data), and ELK to inject over 1M of entries per hour.

AI, ML & LLM

Backend

Database

DevOps

Workflow

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior DevOps Engineer
2019 - Present (6 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Jive Software
Jive Software
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Remote
  • Performed Kubernetes cluster management with 7 on-premises clusters on CoreOS (up to 200+ nodes), providing uptime and supporting k8s infrastructure, configuring and monitoring for k8s clusters.

  • Created a log management system based on FluentD and ElasticSearch with 4 ES Clusters (up to 25 nodes per cluster). Configured advanced logs parsing and deployed monitoring tools for logging.

  • Configured a monitoring system based on Prometheus, Grafana, NewRelic and PagerDuty. Managed AWS resources (EC2, VPC, S3, AWS ES, R53, Athena and etc.) and ES via Terraform, Ansible and Python

Aurea Software
Aurea Software
SaaS Ops Chief Architect/Cloud Operations Architect
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
Austin, TX, United States
  • Synthesized and maintained the operational efficiency of the SaaS infrastructure keeping 100% uptime for 4 weeks in a row on release deployments for the client.

  • Optimized hardware infrastructure for efficiency; reducing monthly operational costs by $200K.

  • Implemented a logs management solution that injected 1 million records per hour and migrated large shared database (30+ Tb) on the infrastructure.

CROC Incorporated
CROC Incorporated
Head of IT Infrastructure Management Solutions
2002 - 2014 (12 years)
Moscow, Russia
  • Led and managed a group of 20+ engineers to optimize and transform complex IT Infrastructure environments for CROC.

  • Served as project management lead for the deployment of large IT monitoring solutions to the Russian market for the first time.

  • Built a high performing center of competency that consistently delivered robust, resilient, secure, and compliant services.

IBM Solutions Limited (subsidiary of BBDO Group)
IBM Solutions Limited (subsidiary of BBDO Group)
Systems Administrator
2001 - 2002 (1 year)
Moscow, Russia
  • Installed, configured, maintained and supported IBM Solution's IT infrastructure.

  • Migrated the client's server infrastructure from Windows NT 3.5 to Windows 2000.

  • Provided Tier support troubleshooting complex technical issues and made recommendations for future system and OS upgrades.

Showcase

Chief Operations Architect - Chute
Chief Operations Architect - Chute
  • Chute is a holistic UGC AI SaaS platform for digital marketers.

  • It offers features including UGC management, social image search, rights management, contesting, and analytics.

  • The platform is built on AWS, utilizing 300+ Linux servers and automating deployment processes.

Chief Operations Architect - Placeable
Chief Operations Architect - Placeable
  • Placeable is a SaaS MarTech solution consisting of two products: Placeable Workbench and Placeable Pages.

  • Placeable Workbench manages location data and distribution.

  • Placeable Pages provides a customizable locator for local landing pages.

DevOps Engineer - MessageOne and Alertfind
DevOps Engineer - MessageOne and Alertfind
  • Provides email management, archiving, and business continuity services and recovery through a managed service.

  • The solution is deployed on AWS and utilizes dockerized components.

  • Fixed alarms were implemented to prevent service disruptions, documented in the project.

Education

AWS Certified Solution Architect
AWS Certified Solution Architect
AWS
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
MBA, IT Management
MBA, IT Management
The Higher School of Economics (HSE)
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Research in Information Security
Research in Information Security
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Faculty of Cybernetics, Department of Computer Systems and Technologies
2003 - 2006 (3 years)
MSc. Computer Science
MSc. Computer Science
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Faculty of Cybernetics, Department of Computer Systems and Technologies
1997 - 2003 (6 years)
RedHat Certified System Administrator
RedHat Certified System Administrator
RedHat
RHCE on Enterprise Linux 7
RHCE on Enterprise Linux 7
RedHat
2018