Denis A.

About Denis A.

Engineer with over 10+ years of experience, proficient in optimizing data center and cloud operations and infrastructure with a strong focus on automation and systems integration to drive efficiency and scalability. • Directed the automation, installation, configuration, maintenance, and support for over 500 large-scale servers and databases, enhancing system reliability and performance. • Specialized in the architectural design, analysis, and troubleshooting of large-scale distributed systems, ensuring high network availability and robust failover protection. • Deep hands-on experience in scripting and automating routine tasks, significantly reducing manual overhead and improving system speed. • Adept at identifying and resolving complex system issues, enhancing system reliability and performance in high-demand settings • Excel at adopting cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, continuously advancing technical expertise to meet evolving business needs. • Developed and maintained critical operational processes and procedure documents, significantly improving network change management practices. • Demonstrated ability to rapidly pick up new technologies and adapt to evolving technical environments, maintaining the latest industry knowledge • Successfully collaborated with multinational engineering teams in the design and execution of complex projects, fostering an environment of knowledge-sharing and innovation.**Core Competencies:**-**Cloud Platforms:** AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, GCP-**IaC & Deployment Tools:** Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, ArgoCD, Pulumi -**CI/CD:** GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildbot, Cloudformation -**Containers:** Docker, Kubernetes, Helm -**Monitoring/Alerting:** CloudWatch, Prometheus, Zabbix, Grafana, Nagios, Kibana, Icinga, Datadog, BigPanda -**Databases & Queues:** Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Presto, Snowflake -**Languages:** Python, Bash, Golang, Rust, JavaScript I\'m passionate about building automation pipelines, reducing toil, and ensuring high availability at scale. Let\'s connect if you\'re working on distributed systems, Kubernetes platforms, or CI/CD modernization.

Experience

1. Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer

   Upwork

   Nov 2022 — Present · CA, US

Education

• Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI)

  Bachelor's Degree, Telecommunications Engineering

  2005 — 2010

• Moscow Technology College, Moscow, Russia

  Associate's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Linux System Administration
• Python
• Ansible
• Troubleshooting
• Unix
• Redis
• Networking
• Circleci
• Network Administration
• Vagrant
• Bash
• Nagios
• Jetty
• Unix Security
• Mysql
• Devops
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Sql
• Linux
• Vmware
• Apache
• Postgresql
• Zabbix