Kostya Plis
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Singapore, Singapore
Toptal member since November 3, 2022
Kostya is a DevOps engineer with extensive knowledge of Linux and Windows environments and 15+ years of IT experience. He has hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing cloud (AWS, GCP) and on-premises solutions following industry standards. Kostya's work has reduced the cognitive load on DevOps teams, eliminated bottlenecks, created checks for pull requests in high-load repositories, and achieved 100% IaC for company cloud environments of over 50 AWS services.
Portfolio
Experience
- Python 3 - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 3 years
- Terragrunt - 3 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- Groovy - 1 year
- Jenkins - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Linux, Python 3, Groovy, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Shell
The most amazing...
...cloud infrastructure project I've rebuilt was aligned with AWS best practices, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and ISO 27001 controls.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Acronis
- Automated repetitive DevOps tasks using Jenkins and Argo Workflows. This includes integration with several back-end systems (REST API), Jira, and the Bitbucket server.
- Maintained and improved production deployment pipelines (Jenkins), deploying hundreds of services across dozens of data centers worldwide.
- Reduced the cognitive load on the DevOps team and eliminated bottlenecks by implementing tests (ansible-lint) and additional checks for pull requests in high-load repositories (40+ pull requests per day).
Part Time DevOps Engineer
GIIR Germany GmbH (HS Ad)
- Delivered 100% Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution to run Teramind workloads in AWS cloud.
- Codified and documented disaster recovery procedure (backup/restore).
- Worked closely with Teramind support to customize a solution for customer needs.
- Performed cost analysis and configured AWS Budgets to monitor and alert on cloud costs/usage.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Perx
- Redesigned the cloud infrastructure and rebuilt it in line with AWS best practices, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and ISO 27001 controls.
- Achieved 100% IaC for company cloud environments of over 50 AWS services.
- Reduced monthly AWS billing by 50% by improving infrastructural monitoring and analysis, fine-tuning resource allocation, planning and AWS savings and reservation plans, AWS budgeting tools, and alerts.
Chief Technical Officer
Dinerware Asia
- Designed and built up to 200+ terminals from scratch, a fully managed environment of on-premises point of sale (POS) terminals.
- Managed host configuration and software updates using Puppet and NSIS scripts.
- Developed software integrations with other services which got certified by vendors, including Nets payments, BBPOS payments, MyEG automated GST submission, and others.
- Developed and delivered software features required for the Singapore market by working with the Heartland Dinerware development and QA teams in the US.
- Monitored software/hardware using Zabbix and ELK stack.
DevOps Engineer
BLEND (former OneHourTranslation)
- Increased web service availability significantly by automating application deployment and host configuration and allowing to identify and react to possible software and infrastructure issues proactively.
- Implemented and maintained the Puppet infrastructure to manage 100+ Linux servers hosted on AWS.
- Implemented the logging collection and analysis using the ELK stack, servers, and services monitoring, alerting, and metrics collection with New Relic and Zabbix.
- Managed and improved multi-region AWS infrastructure for scalability and reliability, such as EC2, VPC, S3, SQS, CloudFront, Route 53, and other services.
Experience
Ansible-lint
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lintEducation
Master's Degree in Information Systems
Far East State Technical University - Vladivostok, Russia
Certifications
AWS Certified Database Specialty
AWS
AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt, Bitbucket API, Jira REST API, Jenkins Pipeline, GitHub API, AMQP
Tools
Terraform, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Jenkins, Shell, NGINX, Git, Ansible, Puppet, Kibana, Certbot, Docker Hub, Amazon EKS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Apache Airflow, Amazon Athena, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Cognito, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Glue, AWS IAM, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), RabbitMQ, Bitbucket, Jira, Artifactory, Confluence, GitHub, Docker Compose, CircleCI, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon ElastiCache
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Linux, Windows, Ubuntu, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Docker, Apache Kafka, Percona
Languages
Groovy, Python 3, Python
Frameworks
.NET
Paradigms
DevOps
Storage
Databases, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redshift, Redis, Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MongoDB
Other
Argo CD, Data Analytics, Securities, Information Systems, Networking, Filebeat, SSL Certificates, Amazon Route 53, ISO 27001, Security Management, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Amazon Kinesis, Amazon RDS, Cost Management, CI/CD Pipelines, BIND DNS, Elastic Load Balancers, SaaS, DNS, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Dynamic Load Balancing, AWS Auto Scaling, Cost Control, Cloudflare
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