Nick Vasilyev

About Nick Vasilyev

Nick has almost 20 years of diverse experience in IT, over the last few years he has been heavily focused on cloud development and building reliable systems in AWS while working at Amazon Robotics / OpsTech IT division. His current mission is building a system that would automatically resolve networking issues at Fulfillment Centers (FCs) and bring more transparency on root causes for high severity issues. He is interested in remote only (occasional on-site travel is OK) opportunities that may be more aligned with his passions- Migrating existing on-prem systems to the cloud - Working on Information Retrieval systems such as search - Solving big, hard and ambiguous business problems with technology - preferably with customers as end usersCertifications: CISSP, CDIA+, Linux+, MCSE, MCSA, CCNA, MCP, A+, Network+, Security+Development: PythonClouds: AWSWeb Development: HTML/CSS/JS, Angular JS, D3js, Django, FlaskData: Hadoop, Apache SparkMachine Learning: Spark, Sci-kit LearnSearch: Solr, ElasticSearchCI/CD: Jenkins/Ansible

Experience

1. Principal Solutions Architect

   Octo, An Ibm Company

   Jun 2023 — Present

   Supporting General Services Administration eCommerce division that supports applications such as GSA Advantage, eBuy, eLibrary, Catalog processing and ACR. So far I\'ve done the following:Team development- Conducted over 100 interviews / tech screens, worked with all the teams to establish a standard interview question bank for technical and general fit to increase the new hire bar. Established standard on-boarding checklists for faster on-boarding of new engineers- Mentor other engineers on best practices in software development and operations and encourage them to grow and experiment with technologies outside of their comfort zone- Collaborated with business stakeholder and technical teams to align on priorities and roadmaps- Lead the teams to implement frameworks for automated application testing with Selenium- Lead an effort across all teams to identify technical debt across our platforms and worked with the business line to allocate a fixed amount of capacity to address technical debtOperational Excellence- Lead the teams in modernizing operations tooling by implementing a modern day observability system (DataDog) and instrumenting key business applications. This resulted in us identifying root causes behind several known issues also finding several new issues and reduced operations issues by over 70%. Observability included APM for applications and custom metrics for legacy ETL jobs- Provided triage and deep dive support for urgent production issuesHands on development- Developed prototypes to help set the vision for future modernization potential- Developed AI Agents (Pydantic AI / Claude) for improving data quality for catalog information- Contributed ad-hoc as required on projects to help meet deliverable milestones

Skills

• Documentum
• Security
• Enterprise Architecture
• Security+
• Linux
• Servers
• Networking
• Comptia
• Technical Support
• A+ Certified
• Cdia+
• Software Documentation
• U.s. Department of Defense
• Program Management
• Integration
• Document Management
• Microsoft Products
• Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Cissp
• Sharepoint
• Mcse
• Dod
• Information Security
• Hardware
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Microsoft Certified Professional