Garry Gerber
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Jerusalem, Israel
Toptal member since January 29, 2020
Garry has several years of IT experience, along with a track record of exceeding expectations. Currently, he works as a DevOps engineer who manages and develops highly available infrastructures of containerized apps, including leading and architecting IT solutions from start to finish. Garry has exemplary interpersonal and communication skills and thrives in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 9 years
- DevOps - 8 years
- Autoscaling - 4 years
- Ansible - 3 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 3 years
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - 3 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Bash, Windows PowerShell, Python, Windows, Linux, Cloud
The most amazing...
...project was working on a single-click deployment of a UAT environment built with IaC containing 15 systems with databases and an entire Kubernetes cluster.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
Rapaport
- Developed highly available infrastructures of containerized applications running on Kubernetes clusters.
- Managed highly available, multi-stage AWS infrastructure.
- Minimized costs while maintaining a resilient infrastructure.
- Created custom-fitting solutions using scripting and automation tools.
- Maintained Microsoft infrastructure services (AD, IIS, DNS, and GPO).
- Optimized CI/CD processes which reduced costs and time by 35%.
Linux System Engineer
Traiana
- Maintained a large cloud and production infrastructure including integration and upgrade of HA clusters.
- Managed the configuration of several services with Ansible and Puppet.
- Integrated and maintained Cobbler, Consul, DCOS, Kubernetes, Spacewalk, and Packer Solution.
DevOps Engineer
StorePower
- Managed, troubleshot, and administered the AWS infrastructure.
- Performed infrastructure provisioning for multiple environments using Ansible.
- Deployed with zero downtime (rolling updates, Blue-Green) using Ansible.
- Configured Nginx, Varnish, Magento, Postfix, and Solr using Ansible.
- Designed and automated a high availability environment on AWS.
Linux System Architect
8200 | IDF Intelligence Unit
- Administrated an enterprise-scaled VMware infrastructure consisting of hundreds of ESX/i servers, and vSphere environment.
- Administrated and troubleshot over 1,000 Linux servers.
- Integrated cutting-edge technologies and problem-solving solutions.
- Wrote advanced Bash scripts, RPM packages, and Puppet modules.
Experience
One-click Deployment of an eCommerce Solution
Continuous-deployment Pipeline for a Microservices Cluster
Manager, ECS, Fargate, CloudWatch, ECR, S3, IAM, and VPC).
It is a single script run that executes three CloudFormation stacks that build an environment from scratch and two CF stacks that when invoked during pipeline activities creates and updates the cluster respectively.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
College of Management Academic Studies - Rishon-Lezion, Israel
Certifications
Linux Troubleshooting
HP
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 5.1
HP
Programming Course
Mamram IDF
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, Jenkins Pipeline
Tools
AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Helm, Azure DevOps Services, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS ELB, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS IAM, Amazon CloudWatch, Git, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Packer, Varnish, Postfix, Apache Solr, Gerrit, Vagrant, Puppet, Chef, GitHub, VirtualBox, NGINX, Jenkins
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Automation, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Development (CD)
Platforms
Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Kubernetes, Windows, Docker, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, CentOS, Linux CentOS 7, Red Hat Linux, Windows 7, Linux RHEL/CentOS, Magento
Languages
Python, Bash, YAML, Bash Script
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell, AWS HA
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Other
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Autoscaling, Linux Server Administration, Linux Servers, System Administration, Linux Administration, Windows System Administration, Cloud Infrastructure, Immutable Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, IIS, Rolling Deployment, Amazon API Gateway, AWS CodePipeline, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Virtualization, Containers, Containerization, Container Orchestration, Automation Tools, AWS DevOps, Amazon Route 53, Linux Server Configuration, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Monitoring, App Infrastructure, Server Infrastructure, Cloud, Pipelines, Cobbler, Consul, Red Hat SpaceWalk, Power Shell Commands, Continuous Monitoring, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR), IT Infrastructure
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