DevOps/SRE Engineer 2016-onward

Everything from CI/CD to automating cloud infrastructure setup and high availability. My preferred stack is AWS/GCloud and technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, the ELK stack, Prometheus, and everything CNCF.

I truly believe in the infrastructure-as-a-code way and believe that automating mundane stuff holds the true art of our profession.

I have done a great deal with tools like Puppet and Ansible, but like to focus on more "new-wave" state-of-the-art solutions like Kubernetes.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 2014-2016

Working on a services-oriented company, I was developing proficiency in cloud infrastructure management and migration to the cloud. Primarily on Microsoft Azure, I was trying out best practices in the CI/CD approach with newly developed and innovative cloud-based tools. This proved to be a crucial lesson for when I had to automate the same processes across cross-cloud.

To actually try to manage all the infrastructure in a "born in the cloud" company was a challenge to me that proved to be more fun than work.

DBA 2012-2014

An exciting endeavor into my passion for data and databases. One of my most favorite topics from University proved out to be a very good profession as well. Relational databases are not only mathematical marvels of pure algebra and vectors, but also an exciting adventure into the depths of the core of every infrastructure system or application.

I was not expecting to face so much critical production workload with almost 0 downtime tolerance, though. This proved to be full of excitement and extremities and me - a bit of a thrill-seeker.

Infrastructure and Integrations Engineer 2010-2012

A straight-out-of-university experience with actual physical servers, wiring, complex data machines, and... projects that generate revenue. Funny enough, those things were in the depths of the theoretical for me up to this point.

My first "being part of a project" experience. My first team with its team environment and team hierarchy. My first real success and real pride.

Web hosting technical support 2009-2010

A "half of the infrastructure is down on my first night shift alone" experience for me.

A true DevOps or infrastructure engineer has to have some true experience in web hosting! This was mine. Brief, yes, but exciting.

I am most proud that I was able to grasp and learn by heart many many core IT concepts like DNS, server, networking layers, monitoring, issue tracking, and most of all - the difference between authentication and authorization!!! Why I was able to learn them in this short period? Because I had to teach them to our customers and this is the Richard Feynman's way.