Garry Gerber
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Toptal member since January 29, 2020
Garry is an experienced DevOps leader with a hands-on background in cloud and hybrid infrastructure. He leads a global team of four engineers and works with Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, and Argo CD. He has improved deployment speed and reliability, increased automation, and reduced cloud costs through infrastructure migration and Kubernetes optimization. Garry combines technical leadership with a practical approach to building reliable systems and helping teams succeed
Portfolio
Experience
- DevOps - 11 years
- AWS DevOps - 11 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 10 years
- Kubernetes - 8 years
- Autoscaling - 8 years
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - 7 years
- GitOps - 6 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 3 years
Work Experience
DevOps Team Lead
Kaltura
- Led and managed a global team of four DevOps engineers across time zones, fostering a collaborative, innovative work environment while ensuring alignment with roadmap goals and supporting team members' professional development.
- Maintained hands-on involvement in technical tasks, leveraging key technologies including Kubernetes, Argo CD, and IaC tools (Terraform and CloudFormation) to ensure effective implementation and optimization, alongside leadership responsibilities.
- Enhanced team productivity by 28%, accelerating project delivery under strict deadlines through effective technical leadership and mentorship.
- Revamped DevOps infrastructure, boosting deployment efficiency by 22% and increasing process automation by 40%, improving deployment reliability by 15%, and increasing stakeholder satisfaction.
- Migrated existing infrastructure from CloudFormation to Terraform and optimized Kubernetes workloads, achieving significant cost savings while addressing the challenges of running video inference models on Kubernetes.
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
- Administered an enterprise-scaled VMware infrastructure consisting of hundreds of ESX/i servers and a vSphere environment.
- Administered and troubleshot over 1,000 Linux servers.
- Integrated cutting-edge technologies and problem-solving solutions.
- Wrote advanced Bash scripts, RPM packages, and Puppet modules.
Project History
One-click Deployment of an eCommerce Solution
Continuous-deployment Pipeline for a Microservices Cluster
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, create and update the cluster, respectively.
Multi-region High-availability Cloud Infrastructure
Kubernetes Optimization for Video Inference Workloads
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
Jenkins Pipeline, Node.js, Terragrunt
Tools
AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Helm, Azure DevOps Services, Amazon EKS, Amazon CloudFront, Grafana, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS ELB, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS IAM, Amazon CloudWatch, Git, NGINX, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Terraform, Packer, Varnish, Postfix, Apache Solr, Gerrit, Vagrant, Puppet, Chef, GitHub, VirtualBox, Jenkins, GitLab
Frameworks
Argo Rollouts, Windows PowerShell, AWS HA
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Automation, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Development (CD), Event-driven Architecture
Platforms
Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Windows, Docker, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, CentOS, Linux CentOS 7, Red Hat Linux, Linux RHEL/CentOS, Magento, Kernel, Apache Kafka
Languages
Python, Bash, YAML, Bash Script
Storage
Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL
Other
Cloud, Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Autoscaling, AWS DevOps, Continuous Monitoring, Linux Server Administration, Linux Servers, System Administration, Linux Administration, Windows System Administration, Cloud Infrastructure, Immutable Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, Argo CD, Technical Leadership, GitOps, Cloud Architecture, Architecture, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), multi-region, Prometheus, Identity & Access Management (IAM), IIS, Rolling Deployment, Amazon API Gateway, AWS CodePipeline, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Virtualization, Containers, Containerization, Container Orchestration, Automation Tools, Amazon Route 53, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Linux Server Configuration, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Monitoring, App Infrastructure, Server Infrastructure, Argo Workflows, Amazon RDS, AWS ECS Fargate, Cobbler, Consul, Red Hat SpaceWalk, Power Shell Commands, IT Infrastructure, NVIDIA vGPU, Nvidia MPS, Mathematics
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