Gleb Boushev
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since January 30, 2023
Gleb has been one of the fastest-growing users in Stack Overflow's Azure tag over the last five years, ranking 3rd in the Azure tag, 1st in multiple Azure tags, 10th in the Azure DevOps tag, and top 0.3% overall. He has 14+ years of experience, with six years in DevOps and four years in Kubernetes. He is passionate, diligent, and conscientious. He has been a five-time Microsoft Azure MVP and a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2014. He is a DCA, CKA, and LFCS with around 65 MS certificates.
Portfolio
Experience
- Windows PowerShell - 12 years
- Azure - 6 years
- Kubernetes - 6 years
- Azure DevOps - 6 years
- Python - 6 years
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - 4 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years
- Amazon EKS - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Windows PowerShell, Python, Azure, Kubernetes
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is refactor a legacy C# app with 100+ million daily hits to work with Azure Cosmos DB, designing data models and partition structure.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
Freelance Clients
- Refactored around 30,000 lines of Azure Resource Manager template code into 1,200 lines while improving the maintainability and consistency of deployments.
- Automated the onboarding procedure with Ansible Playbooks, reducing clients' onboarding time from two weeks to two days.
- Reduced development infrastructure costs from 11,000 to 2,500 per month with no performance impact.
- Lowered production infrastructure costs by 15,000 monthly, around 10% of the total cost.
- Piloted and implemented a just-in-time service principal generation solution to help fight permissions sprawl and stale credentials, securing clients' Azure estate.
Systems Engineer | Helpdesk and Systems Administrator
Freelance Clients
- Worked as a lead engineer for a company with hundreds of servers and maintained three different virtualization clusters, active directory, and exchange.
- Implemented numerous POCs for customers to help with sales.
- Managed a company of 100 employees with six servers.
Experience
Azure Infrastructure for an IoT Fintech Company
Azure Infrastructure Migration from On-premise
Managing EKS and Implementing Python Testing Framework for a Big OSS Project
https://telecominfraproject.com/The second part of the engagement was to implement a testing framework to cover integration testing, which was achieved using pytest.
Leading Legacy C# Application Refactoring
Certifications
Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft
Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions
Microsoft
Docker Certified Associate (DCA)
DockerLabs
Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Professional Scrum Master
Scrum.org
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
The Linux Foundation
ITIL Foundation
EXIN
Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Azure Administrator
Microsoft
Skills
Tools
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Terraform, Git, Ansible, Amazon EKS, Hyper-V, GitHub
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Scrum, ITIL
Platforms
Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure IaaS, Azure PaaS, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows, Windows Server
Languages
Python, C#
Storage
Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, Networking, System Center, VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter, GitHub Actions, Big Data, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
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