Infrastructure engineer.

Keywords: Automation, Infrastructure, DevOps, Kubernetes, Gitlab, CI/CD, Ansible, AWS.

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t.me/vadimisakanov

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More than 10 yrs professional experience in IT.

Best work hours - 00.00 - 16.00 UTC, other hours negotiable.

December 2022 - present

Developing infrastructure for a highload B2B project for TOP2 Russian IT company. Developing for project monitoring, IaC implementation, automation tools w Golang/Python/Bash. Promoting the engineer culture and collaboration processes in the team. Made interaction with development & testing teams more effective. Implemented DDoS protection system. Described project business metrics in monitoring.

Key words and tech stack: Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Victoriametrics, Tarantool, Clickhouse, Kaspersky KLMS & KWTS, custom S3 storage, Golang, micro-service architecture, monitoring, SRE

June 2022 - November 2022

Created processes and system for infrastructure & DevOps implementation works in a team of 30 engineers. Created a DevOps/infrastructure unit of 3 engineers. Described test-stage-prod environments with Terraform using Terraform modules, created idempotent IaC, cut costs with heavy usage of AWS spot instances. Created a stable working CI/CD for a project with 30 microservices. Covered all the envs with basic monitoring, log collection systems. Implemented tools to let dev and test teams to work effectively with our Kubernetes clusters.

Keywords & tech stack: AWS, Java, npm, Kubernetes, DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, ELK stack, Gitlab CI, micro-service architecture

2020 - June 2022

Automating IT infrastructure, deployment processes, devops processes for one of the projects in EPAM - one the world's biggest outsource companies. Implementing DevOps approach, infrastructure setup with Infrastructure as a Code system, integrating CI/CD, Kubernetes, modern monitoring, log systems, etc, adopting apps for Kubernetes. Moving the project infrastructure to Kubernetes platform & cloud-native system.

Keywords & tech stack: AWS, Java/Tomcat, Kubernetes, DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus+Grafana, ELK stack, Gitlab CI, Jenkins CI

2019 - 2020

Creating and maintaining IT infrastructure for a data analytics startup. Implementing DevOps approach, infrastructure setup with Infrastructure as a Code system, integrating CI/CD, Kubernetes, modern monitoring, log systems, etc.

Keywords & tech stack: Java/Tomcat, Kubernetes, DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Zabbix, Prometheus, ELK stack, Gitlab CI, Apache Cassandra, heavy MySQL installations

2017-2019

Creating and maintaining IT infrastructure of some of the biggest web projects in Russia & CIS.

Keywords: highload, devops integration, amazon aws, gitlab ci, kubernetes, ansible automation, bash scripting automation, monitoring (zabbix, prometheus).

Tech stack: kubernetes, gitlab ci, linux, LAMP, nginx/apache, php/python/ruby deployments, databases (mysql, postgresql, mongodb), clusterization tools, openvz & kvm virtualization & lots of other stuff.

2010-2017

A web-hosting provider with managed services.

Tech stack: linux, LAMP, kvm & openvz virtualization, ansible automation

Also was a business owner, so it's 7 years business experience. Since then I have experience hiring people, making teams, experience in sales, management, finance, market researches, being financially effective.

2007-2008

ISP network engineer. Was responsible for ADSL infrastructure.

South Ural State University - susu.ru, 2004-2009, bachelor degree in Computer Science and Radio Communications

EDX.org Introduction to Kubernetes course

LinuxFoundations Kubernetes Administration course

Slurm.io offline Kubernetes cources

Born in 1987, live in Russia, Chelyabinsk, GMT+5. Able to travel several times a year.

Native Russian language, fluent English, basic German and Spanish.

A host and speaker for UWDC.ru conference, sysadminka.timepad.ru meetups, Kubernetes meetups in Russia