Dmitry Z.

About Me

Dmitry is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of commercial experience in the SaaS Ops/Tech Ops/Infrastructure Ops/DevOps fields. He has substantial experience managing release cycles and delivery automation for production environments within both Linux and Windows environments using different monitoring tools and application performance assessment tools for improvements. He also has hands-on experience with Cloud-native services running in AWS and GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes in the delivery of high-quality solutions for clients. His top skills are AWS, GCP, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, Automation, and CI/CD pipelines.

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Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Software Engineer
2018 - Present (7 years)
Remote
  • Delivers CI/CD as part of an agile scrum team for clients across a broad range of industries.

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

  • Ensures high-quality deliverables and implements DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments.

Shuttle Holdings
Shuttle Holdings
Senior DevOps Engineer
2019 - 2019
Remote
  • Participating in cryptocurrency startup exchange project as Senior DevOps Engineer from development to go live phase.

  • Offered expertise for software releases through CI pipeline support, infrastructure and process improvement using industry best practices.

  • Debugged and isolated application faults in highly complex integration environments within the Exchange.

Crossover for Work
Crossover for Work
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
2019 - 2019
Remote
  • Actively participated and contributed to a Jenkins X RnD project; by creating a GitOps pipeline for a Java-based product of the client.

  • Handled the Kubernetes cluster on the Google Cloud Platform with Jenkins X as primary CI/CD tool and experimented with GitOps CD approach on the project.

  • Offered technical support on products in the production and staging environments and handled escalations from the Pager Duty and Monitoring teams.

Crossover for Work
Crossover for Work
L3 Customer Support Chief Architect
2018 - 2018
Remote
  • Worked as part of the SaaS Import Database Consolidation and SaaS Import Lift and Shift teams of the client.

  • Provided expertise for the migration of the company's virtual machines from legacy AWS infrastructure into a Central VmWare environment.

  • Managed the movement and consolidation of various databases from the customer's legacy infrastructure into a Central Database running on a separate AWS account.

Aurea Software
Aurea Software
AWS DevOps Engineer
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
Remote
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for different products acquired by the company; refactoring "old style" build pipelines to new dockerized infrastructure ( Docker/Kubernetes ).

  • Provided technical support for migrating customer's software into a new infrastructure with a centralized ecosystem to comply with internal company standards.

  • Followed best DevOps practices and architecture approaches in designing reliable CI/CD solutions for customers.

DataArt
DataArt
DevOps/ Configuration Manager
2015 - 2017 (2 years)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Regularly participated in resolving outages based on run-books or product knowledge.

  • Effectively developed, improved, and thoroughly documented all operational practices and procedures on client projects.

  • Efficiently followed documented processes for troubleshooting, recovery, and service restoration processes on all projects for clients.

Grid Dynamics
Grid Dynamics
DevOps Engineer
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Worked on the Core DevOps team building a CI/CD pipeline for a 9B$ eCommerce store.

  • Efficiently executed and pushed continuous product improvement initiatives along with CI/CD best DevOps practices on developments for clients.

  • Regularly provide escalated, highly complex technical support to customers by investigating and resolving systems-related matters of significance on behalf of Grid Dynamics.

i-Free
i-Free
System Administrator
2011 - 2014 (3 years)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Effectively performed deep dives on all outages and undertook root cause analysis on systems to improve the uptime.

  • Adhered to all internal processes for incident and service request resolutions and change management through proper execution and documentation.

  • Regularly recorded and kept track of all outages with key purpose to improve reliability over time.

i-Free
i-Free
Technical Support Engineer
2008 - 2011 (3 years)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Provided technical support 24/7/365 for the operation of the services of i-Free.

  • Implemented and evaluated all monitoring alerts capable of differentiating between valid and false positive alerts.

  • Provided technical support for troubleshooting and debugging of known and on-demand production issues.

Showcase

Senior DevOps Engineer - Kohls
Senior DevOps Engineer - Kohls
  • Kohl's is a family-oriented department store chain selling apparel, footwear, and accessories.

  • Kohl's provides soft home products and housewares alongside apparel and footwear.

  • The team at Kohl's participated in the CI/CD Core team, managing Jenkins, Gerrit, and Nexus components supporting 3500 developers.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Ocado
Senior DevOps Engineer - Ocado
  • Ocado is a world-leading online supermarket with a significant market share in the UK grocery sector.

  • Ocado operates a large customer base of approximately 250,000 active users.

  • Ocado utilizes OpenStack for infrastructure management across multiple CoreOS clusters.

Owner/Maintainer - Gotli
Owner/Maintainer - Gotli
  • Developed and dockerized a URL shortener.

  • Made the URL shortener cloud-friendly and deployable within a Kubernetes cluster.

  • Completed project creation and containerization.

Owner/Maintainer - Ansi-kube-aws
Owner/Maintainer - Ansi-kube-aws
  • An Ansible playbooks were created for AWS infrastructure preparation and Kubernetes cluster bootstrapping.

  • The project involves preparing the AWS environment and setting up a Kubernetes cluster.

  • The project utilizes Ansible as the automation tool.

Owner/Maintainer - Terrakub
Owner/Maintainer - Terrakub
  • This Terraform code deploys a microservice application to Kubernetes cluster federation.

  • It utilizes the Terrakub project as the source.

  • The code focuses on the deployment of the application within a Kubernetes cluster.

Senior DevOps Engineer - The Rampart Exchange
Senior DevOps Engineer - The Rampart Exchange
  • The Rampart Exchange is a digital marketplace facilitating cryptocurrency trading.

  • It functions as an intermediary, connecting buyers and sellers of cryptocurrencies.

  • The development team was involved from the initial concept to the go-live phase.

Senior DevOps Engineer - IRIS
Senior DevOps Engineer - IRIS
  • IRIS Guest Experience Platform digitizes businesses for Hotels and Restaurants, offering integrated guest information.

  • The platform utilizes CI/CD pipelines built with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy, enabling automated deployment.

  • IRIS has developed multiple pipelines from scratch, demonstrating expertise in DevOps practices.

Education

Education
MSc. Computer Science and Engineering
Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
2005 - 2011 (6 years)