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Oleksandr Knysh

DevOps Engineer/SRE
Male
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alexandr.knish@gmail.com
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+380507757385
I am engaged in the implementation DevOps and SRE practices in existing processes - automation, CI/CD and monitoring, alerting, security.
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Work Experience

Goreel

Lead DevOps/PFE Team
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Sep 2022 - Current

GoReel is a game developer with its own ecosystem of tech solutions based on Kubernetes

Building a highload platform for running applications and analytics based on Kubernetes. Certification - SOC2, ISO 27001

Managing a team of 3-4 people

  • Tech stack: Python, Javascript
  • Infrastructure: AWS (EC2+kops+kubernetes, SQS, SNS, Firehose, Glue, Athena, S3) + SSO Duo. More ~ 2000 EC2 instances with big amount production kubernetes clusters
  • Storage solutions - k8ssandra operator, Zalando PostgreSQL operator, ES operator, KeyDB operator
  • Traffic&DNS: Cloudflare, Nginx-ingress Controller, Istio
  • CI/CD: Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins, Atlantis
  • DevOps toolstack: terraform, ArgoCD, helm, external secerts
  • Logging & Monitoring: EFK stack (ES+Fluentd+Kibana), Victoria Metrics, Grafana, OpsGenie

Healthjoy

DevOps Engineer
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Sep 2019 - Sep 2022

Building an B2B platform (Healthcare domain) for managing insurance claims in the medical industry USA. HIPAA Compliance

  • Tech stack: Python, Golang, Javascript
  • Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, AWS RDS - PostgreSQL, S3, AWS Managed RabbitMQ) + SSO Okta
  • Traffic&DNS: Cloudflare
  • CI/CD: Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins
  • DevOps toolstack: terraform, ansible, helm, helmfile, vault
  • Logging & Monitoring: Loki (S3), Prometheus (Victoria Metrics), Grafana, PagerDuty

NewAge Solutions

Lead DevOps Engineer
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Aug 2016 - Aug 2019

Highly loaded B2B project for gambling. Analytical platform. Counteraction to locks. Project - cryptowallet, payment system (https://naspay.com/). Support from Dev to Prod - all envs

  • Docker swarm cluster multi region
  • Kubernetes (AWS EKS + Skaffold)
  • Apache Kafka event streaming cluster
  • RabbitMQ cluster
  • Elasticsearch cluster (multinode)
  • PGSql & MariaDB cluster (master-slave only)
  • ELK stack - for log aggregation
  • Monitoring and alerts - Zabbix, Icinga2, Prometheus, Grafana,
  • Cloud Providers - AWS, DO,Hetzner, Scaleway
  • CMS and provisioning tools - Ansible, python fabric, Terraform, boto, dopy

Privatix

Lead DevOps Engineer
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May 2016 - Sep 2017

Automate creation VPN-Proxy infrastructure. Secure tuning and hide from goverment and bad guys. Monitoring and resolving issues for L3.

  • Any Cloud and Bare Metal hosting - AWS, DO, GCP, Vultr, Leaseweb, OWH, Scaleway, Online-Net,Hetzner, Velia,
  • Any VPN soft and proxy - StrongSWAN, OpenVPN, CJDNS, Wireguard, Tinc, Squid, Tor, I2P, Privoxy, Shadowsocks
  • CMS and provisioning tools - Ansible, Terraform, python fabric
  • Monitoring - Zabbix

ORO

DevOps Engineer
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Sep 2015 - Aug 2016

Participating in the development of the cloud platform. Cloud platform for own CRM system.

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • python
  • Datadog

Wargaming Inc

DevOps Engineer
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Apr 2014 - Aug 2015

Support staging environment and develop new DevOps tools

  • VMware + LXC containers, Docker
  • Tools - python fabric, bash
  • CMS and provisioning tools - Puppet, Ansible, Vagrant, Packer
  • Monitoring - Zabbix

GotFaceGames LLC

Senior System Administrator
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May 2012 - Apr 2014

Equator-Holding

System Administrator
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May 2011 - May 2012

Trading Company

System Administrator
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May 2005 - Aug 2010

Education

Kharkovsky radiotechnical School

Programmer junior specialist Programming for computers and automated systems
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Sep 1996 - Jun 2000

Graduated from technical school with honors

National Aviation University

Bachelor
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Jun 2024 - Current

Faculty of Cybersecurity

Projects

Payment System

DevOps Engineer
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Aug 2016 - Mar 2017

Automation for payment system Secure tuning, monitoring, logging, alerting and prepare for PCIDSS audit.

Privatix - VPN and Proxy solutions

Lead DevOps Engineer
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May 2016 - Sep 2017

VPN/Proxy

CRM Platform - ORO

DevOps Engineer
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Sep 2015 - Aug 2016

Participating in the development of the cloud platform. Cloud platform for own CRM system. Use techs: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, python Monitoring: Datadog

Skills

  • Docker, Swarm,Kubernetes
  • HA - Clusters and Reliability Infrastructure
  • Zabbix, Icinga2, Prometheus, Graphana, Cloudwatch
  • Software Deployment
  • CI/CD
  • Jenkins
  • Gitlab
  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • ArgoCD
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • DigitalOcean
  • Cloudflare
  • ZeroTrust
  • Databases
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • ELK stack
  • Python
  • Golang
  • Nginx
  • Haproxy
  • Traefik
  • Letsencrypt
  • OpenVPN
  • Wireguard
  • Squid
  • PCIDSS
  • HIPAA
  • Security audit