UNIX | Linux | System Admin | DevOps | DevSecOps | SRE | Edge | Cloud Native | Architect

Bringing over 17 years of experience, I possess deep expertise in Linux/UNIX/NIX, IT Security, and DevOps with a keen focus on Cloud Native technologies and Kubernetes. I adeptly manage Public and Private Cloud environments, specializing in applications, clusters, virtualization, and secure network infrastructures. I am committed to modern IT practices, mastering Automation, CI/CD, Configuration Management, and Observability to ensure systems are robust and agile. My strong communication and customer service abilities are matched by my knack for resolving technical issues, managing projects, and educating end-users. As an IT Trainer, I further enrich the field by mentoring professionals in cutting-edge technology, enhancing both team and individual prowess.

Configuration Management: Advanced skills in Terraform and Ansible, proficient in Chef/Puppet for server farms management; automation with Jenkins, Teamcity; user/group management via SSO/LDAP.

Data Persistence: Skilled in MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Cassandra, CockroachDB and Oracle 11g; knowledge of data storage and retrieval systems.

Development & Scripting: Bash Shell, Python and GO

Internal Development Portals (IDPs) using Backstage, Headlamp and Krateo.

Observability: Competent in using Nagios, Cacti, Kibana, VeeamONE, Monit, MRTG, Logstash, GreyLog, ELK Stack, Grafana, Loki, VictoriaMetrics, Vector, InfluxDB, Datadog, Prometheus and Thanos.

Private Cloud: Leveraged OpenStack including writing Kubernetes Operator for it to deploy private cloud in multiple environments.

Virtualization & Containers: Virtualization with VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, KVM, KubeVirt, QEMU and containerization with Docker, AWS, Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, Kubernetes.

Edge Computing: Developed Cloud Native Edge solutions; proficient in bare-metal provisioning with Metal3, and storage solutions like Ceph.

Public Clouds: Leveraged extensive experience with major hyperscalers including Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud to architect, deploy, and manage scalable, high-availability systems.

DevOps & CI/CD with DevSecOps: Streamlined CI/CD pipelines with integrated DevSecOps, automating security audits, license checks, and SBOM generation. Implemented tools for early vulnerability detection, secret management, and container security, enforcing robust security protocols throughout the development cycle.

Community Engagement: Open source contributions, delivering talks / sessions in conferences / meetups.

Web Hosting & Management, High Availability & Load Balancing, Backup & Disaster Recovery.