Infrastructure engineer.
Keywords: DevOps, Infrastructure, Automation, Kubernetes, Gitlab, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Yandex Cloud, Golang, Python
email: [email protected]
t.me/vadimisakanov
github.com/vadimisakanov
More than 10 yrs professional experience in IT.
December 2023 - present
Developing bootsman.tech - a Kubernetes multi-cluster orchestration platform
- speeding up Golang builds up to 1-2 seconds per gitlab job using specialized gitlab runners with effective job scheme and cache scheme; a lot like "Facebook frontend builds speeding up", but for golang builds
- defining custom gitlab runners deployment with Ansible
- custom loki-operator helm chart development with collecting logs from many Kubernetes subclusters
- security scheme development for Kubernetes clusters, security tools research, helm chart development and product integration
- custom VictoriaLogs Helm chart + addon development
- custom Vector Helm chart + addon development
- domain owner for Brest (based on Opennebula) infrastructure provider, Brest/Opennebula lead in the team; I test our infra products with Brest/Opennebula, work out the best work scheme, create and debug Gitlab CI for our product tests with Brest/Opennebula installation
- ceph cluster deployment for Brest/Opennebula installation
Key words and tech stack: Kubernetes, Ansible, Golang, Gitlab CI, loki, VictoriaLogs, Vector, Helm, Rancher, Prometheus, Grafana
December 2022 - November 2023
- Developing infrastructure for a highload B2B project for TOP2 Russian IT company
- Developing for project monitoring, IaC implementation, automation tools w Golang/Python/Bash
- Promoting the engineering culture and collaboration processes in the team
- Made interaction between infra teams & development + testing teams more effective
- Implemented antiDDoS protection system
- Described project business metrics in monitoring
- Created an Ansible automated antispam protection system
Key words and tech stack: Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Victoriametrics, Tarantool, Clickhouse, Kaspersky KLMS & KWTS, custom S3 storage, Golang, micro-service architecture, monitoring, SRE
June 2022 - November 2022
- Created processes and system for infrastructure & DevOps implementation works in a team of 30 engineers
- Created a DevOps/infrastructure unit of 3 engineers
- Described test-stage-prod environments with Terraform using Terraform modules, created idempotent IaC, cut costs with heavy usage of AWS spot instances
- Created a stable working CI/CD for a project with 30 microservices
- Covered all the envs with basic monitoring, log collection systems
- Implemented tools to let dev and test teams to work effectively with our Kubernetes clusters
Keywords & tech stack: AWS, Java, npm, Kubernetes, DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, ELK stack, Gitlab CI, micro-service architecture
2020 - June 2022
- Automating IT infrastructure, deployment processes, devops processes for one of the projects in EPAM - one the world's biggest outsource companies.
- Implemented DevOps approach, infrastructure setup with Infrastructure as a Code system, integrating CI/CD, Kubernetes, modern monitoring, log systems, etc, adopting apps for Kubernetes.
- Adopted project apps and infrastructure for Kubernetes & cloud-native system in a team of 3 infra engineers; I was responsible mainly for building infra architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes adoption, building DevOps culture.
Keywords & tech stack: AWS, Java/Tomcat, Kubernetes, DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus+Grafana, ELK stack, Gitlab CI, Jenkins CI
2019 - 2020
- Creating and maintaining IT infrastructure for a data analytics startup
- Implemented DevOps approach, infrastructure setup with Infrastructure as a Code system, integrating CI/CD, Kubernetes, modern monitoring, log systems, etc
- Built an infra engineering team, DevOps culture
- automated company infrastructure w Ansible
- adopted main product of the company for Kubernetes
Keywords & tech stack: Java/Tomcat, Kubernetes, DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Zabbix, Prometheus, ELK stack, Gitlab CI, Apache Cassandra, heavy MySQL installations
2017-2019
Creating and maintaining IT infrastructure of some of the biggest web projects in Russia & CIS.
Keywords: highload, devops integration, linux, LAMP, amazon aws, gitlab ci, kubernetes, ansible automation, bash scripting automation, monitoring (zabbix, prometheus), antiDDOS protection
Tech stack: kubernetes, gitlab ci, linux, LAMP, nginx/apache, php/python/ruby deployments, databases (mysql, postgresql, mongodb), clusterization tools, openvz & kvm virtualization & lots of other stuff.
2010-2017
A web-hosting provider with managed services.
Tech stack: linux, LAMP, kvm & openvz virtualization, ansible automation, antiDDOS protection
Also was a business owner, so it's 7 years business experience. Since then I have experience hiring people, making teams, experience in sales, management, finance, market researches, being financially effective.
2007-2008
ISP network engineer. Was responsible for ADSL infrastructure.
South Ural State University - susu.ru, 2004-2009, bachelor degree in Computer Science and Radio Communications
LinuxFoundations Kubernetes Administration courses
Slurm.io offline Kubernetes cources
AWS DevOps Professional course w Amazon engineers + ACloudGuru
Multiple infra engineering & AWS courses at EPAM
Golang for infra engineers VK.com internal course
Born in 1987, live in Russia, Chelyabinsk, GMT+5. Able to travel several times a year.
Native Russian language, fluent English, basic German and Spanish.
A program commitee lead and a speaker for UWDC.ru conference, sysadminka.timepad.ru infra engineering meetups, Big Monitoring Meetup, Selectel Tech Day, Kubernetes meetups in Russia, please refer for the videos