Career Profile

I am an experienced Cloud Engineer with a solid foundation in Linux systems. With a deep understanding of Linux architecture and administration, I am skilled in optimizing and managing cloud-based infrastructure.

My expertise lies in deploying and maintaining highly available and scalable solutions on cloud platforms. I am well-versed in cloud technologies, including virtualization, containerization, and orchestration.

With a strong focus on security and performance, I have a proven track record of implementing solutions that meet the evolving needs of businesses.

Work Experience

Principal Engineer, Architect

2017 - 2024
McKinsey & Company

Working on internal and client projects, consulting, and implementation

  • Team lead
    Leading team up to 15 people, managing IT streams on the client projects.
  • Cloud Engineering
    Architected, built, and operated multi-tenant, production-grade AWS environments.
  • Infrastructure as Code
    Implemented Terraform Enterprise and Terraform Cloud adoption which included the implementation of Sentinel policies.
  • Containerization
    Carried out the implementation and support of solutions based on Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Consul, Vault, Kubernetes, LXC, and KVM.
  • Software Engineering
    I was involved in writing and extending existing software solutions using Golang, Python, and NodeJS.

System administrator, Architect

2015 - 2017
NetArt s.r.o., Czech Republic
  • Implemented and extended existing VoIP solutions (Asterisk, Cisco, Mera, Siemens)
  • Custom software development for clients (C, Perl, NodeJS)
  • Provisioned and supported virtualization solutions for the customers based on vSphere, XEN, KVM
  • Network Administration
  • LIR services

Linux System Engineer, SRE, Performance Optimization

2011 - 2015
eBay (X.Commerce)

As part of the Expert Consulting Group, I participated in and led different activities, including:

  • Performance Optimization and Load Testing, optimizing cache layers
  • Internal infrastructure architecting and implementation, private clouds
  • Client audits and on-site engagements
  • Creation of the training and certification materials, whitepapers, presentations

UNIX senior system administrator

2009 - 2011
Magento, US
  • System administration of the organization servers (Linux, FreeBSD)
  • Managing internal and client infrastructure
  • Implemented monitoring and APM solutions, paging tools, and support team operations

IT manager and software developer

2004 - 2007
Shevchenko Didkovskiy & Partners, Ukraine

System administration, web development, UNIX integration, VoIP, CRM

Chief Technology Officer

1999-2004
Deep Vision, Ukraine

Web Sites development, intra/internet solutions, hosting services, e-commerce solutions, CRM developer

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

2023 - 2026
CNCF (LF-r4ytapl4za)

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

2022 - 2025
CNCF (LF-vguvhqy3o7)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

2021 - 2024
Amazon Web Services

AWS Network Connectivity Options training

2021
Amazon Web Services

Splunk 7.x Fundamentals (IOD)

2020
Splunk (a7080ec8eefc)

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

2020 - 2023
HashiCorp (HCTAO-002)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

2019 - 2022
Amazon (355552553)

Cisco Certified Network Associate Industrial (CCNA I)

2006
Cisco (205920561)

Zend Certified Engineer

2005
Zend by Perforce (ZEND002883)

OSS Contributions

Over the years, I've used various Open Source Software (OSS) projects either as part of work or for some personal projects, and I've always made an effort to contribute back to them. Below is a list of some projects I contributed to:

Smartmontools - The smartmontools utility control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS, and NVMe disks.
GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP - GIMP is a cross-platform image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and other operating systems.
FreeBSD - FreeBSD is an operating system that powers modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.
Bruteblock - Software for blocking brute force attacks with IPFW

Skills

Kubernetes, Docker, Nomad, LXC, KVM

ArgoCD, git, helm, gitops, GitLab, GitHub

Okta, OneLogin, KeyCloak, SAML, OIDC, Cognito

Linux, FreeBSD

Monitoring and observability (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)

AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean

IaaC, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer

Golang, TypeScript, Python, C

TCP/IP, DNS, Firewalls, VoIP, Routing

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

RAIDs, NVMe, SAS/SATA, SMART