Roman S.

Roman S.

Principal DevOps Engineer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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About Me

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.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Principal DevOps Engineer
2020 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • 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.

Emirates Group
Emirates Group
Principal Software Engineer / SRE Lead
2020 - Present (4 years)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Design and develop enterprise-level software applications for the Emirates Group; evangelizing DevOps and SRE best practices and industry standards.

  • Provide leadership, guidance and coaching on different engineering teams; choosing and implementing appropriate solutions to resolve complex problems.

  • Led a team of SRE/DevOps to implement CI\CD across multiple applications and provide root cause analysis/post mortems on solutions.

Cyance UK
Cyance UK
Technical Consultant
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Remote
  • 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.

ClearScale
ClearScale
Senior DevOps Engineer / System Architect
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
United States of America
  • Worked on the design and implementation of a PoC of overlay multicast full mesh for a client's Voice Service SaaS solution.

  • Migrated factory apps and service from on-prem to the cloud; maintaining, updating and improving the DevOps pipelines in the local environments.

  • Audited Grafana deployment, enforced security controls and troubleshot complex production issues, including performance and function issues.

Freelance
Freelance
DevOps Engineer
2015 - 2017 (2 years)
Remote
  • Designed, built, and optimized different automation systems that operate web, mobile, and cloud-based platforms on projects for clients.

  • Worked with clients to facilitate the migration of mature DevOps pipelines into different environments on projects.

  • Kept up with industry best practices and trends on DevOps, and drove the implementation of best practices on projects.

OOO (Special System Engineering Centre)
OOO (Special System Engineering Centre)
Technical Lead
2009 - 2017 (8 years)
Moscow, Russia
  • 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.

ZAO (Public Library)
ZAO (Public Library)
Department Lead
2008 - 2009 (1 year)
Moscow, Russia
  • Defined and implemented standards and best practices to maintain the units’ software and hardware facility support and development.

  • Designed and implemented tools and services needed to support and manage the Unit's operations.

  • Provided 3rd-level application support for the library's software system.

OOO (Smartware)
OOO (Smartware)
Integration Specialist
2006 - 2008 (2 years)
Moscow, Russia
  • 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.

ZAO (Business Logic)
ZAO (Business Logic)
System Administrator
2004 - 2006 (2 years)
Moscow, Russia
  • 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.

IT Consultancy
IT Consultancy
IT Specialist
1997 - 2004 (7 years)
Moscow, Russia
  • Maintained system efficiency on projects and troubleshot a wide variety of systems and networks to include high volume/high availability systems.

  • Managed network appliances, servers, and monitoring tools and supervised the installation and configuration of software and hardware.

  • Led processes to upgrade client systems with new releases and trained coworkers and technicians on new technologies and industry best practices.

Portfolio

Technical Consultant - Multicast Mesh PoC
Technical Consultant - Multicast Mesh PoC

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.

Technical Consultant - Dremio Data Analytics Infrastructure
Technical Consultant - Dremio Data Analytics Infrastructure

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.

Technical Consultant - R&D AWS Custom EMR Data Pipeline Infrastructure
Technical Consultant - R&D AWS Custom EMR Data Pipeline Infrastructure

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.

Education

AppDynamics Certified Associate Administrator
AppDynamics Certified Associate Administrator
AppDynamics
2020 - Present (4 years)
AppDynamics Certified AssociatePerformance Analyst
AppDynamics Certified AssociatePerformance Analyst
AppDynamics
2020 - Present (4 years)
Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master
Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master
Scaled Agile Inc
2020 - Present (4 years)
AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty
AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty
Amazon Web Services
2019 - Present (5 years)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
2019 - Present (5 years)
AWS Certified DevOps - Professional
AWS Certified DevOps - Professional
Amazon Web Services
2018 - Present (6 years)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Amazon Web Services
2018 - Present (6 years)
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
Amazon Web Services
2017 - Present (7 years)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
Software Development Tech
Software Development Tech
Moscow Technological Institute
2012 - 2016 (4 years)
Automated Management Systems
Automated Management Systems
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
1994 - 1997 (3 years)