Pawel Fraczyk
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Architecture Developer
Phuket, Thailand
Toptal member since March 15, 2021
Paweł is a DevOps engineer and cloud architect with six years of experience designing, automating, and managing cloud environments for high-profile clients. Specialized in AWS and Azure, he holds multiple certifications that highlight his expertise. Over the last three years, he has successfully worked remotely. Paweł's skills span across IaC (Terraform), CI/CD automation, network management, cloud monitoring, solution architecting, and maintaining high-availability production workloads.
Portfolio
Experience
- Terraform - 7 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 7 years
- AWS DevOps - 7 years
- AWS Cloud Architecture - 6 years
- Docker - 6 years
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - 6 years
- Automation - 5 years
Preferred Environment
AWS DevOps, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, Python, Linux, DevOps, Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Automation
The most amazing...
...platform I've worked on deployed automated, scalable governance, security, and network configuration on 100+ AWS account organizations.
Work Experience
Certified Solution Architect
Blackmoon Advisory Pty Ltd (via Toptal)
- Architected a serverless application. Advised on and created a scalable architecture for a serverless application using AWS, optimizing performance and cost-efficiency.
- Performed cloud deployment with Terraform. Successfully deployed two cloud environments utilizing Terraform, ensuring consistent and reliable infrastructure management.
- Worked on the CI/CD pipeline design and implementation. Designed and implemented a robust CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions with OIDC for secure AWS authorization, streamlining deployment processes, and enhancing automation.
- Focused on containerization and ECS management. Utilized Docker and Docker Compose for containerization and employed Amazon ECS to host a scalable, serverless solution, enhancing deployment flexibility and efficiency.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Euvic
- Architected and implemented automated CI/CD pipelines for web, mobile (iOS, Android), and desktop (macOS, Windows) applications, leveraging Docker containers to enhance deployment efficiency and reduce development cycle times.
- Conducted detailed database migration planning and re-architected applications to be stateless, enhancing scalability and performance in cloud environments.
- Experienced with using LAMP stacks for WordPress via Virtualmin, managing high-traffic sites with automated provisioning, Let’s Encrypt SSL renewal, Redis caching, PHP-FPM/MySQL tuning, and zero-downtime deployments.
- Developed multiple infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions for various small projects using Terraform, streamlining the AWS infrastructure management and deployment process.
- Championed a collaborative DevOps culture between development and operations teams to foster improved cooperation and communication within the software house.
- Led the migration of a monolithic application from a single Windows Server environment to a containerized application architecture in Kubernetes, optimizing resource utilization and scalability.
DevOps Engineer
StakeKit LLC
- Improved CI/CD pipeline for cryptocurrency staking microservices API using GitHub Actions and OIDC, enabling zero-downtime deployments and automated GitHub release pages.
- Integrated Google Workspace with AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO), enforcing least-privilege access across 80+ AWS accounts via dynamic permission sets and SCIM provisioning.
- Configured PagerDuty for 24/7 on-call rotation, advanced escalation policies, and Slack integrations, reducing MTTR for critical incidents.
- Implemented the Vanta platform to automate evidence collection and controls monitoring, achieving SOC 2 Type 1 compliance in AWS with zero critical findings.
AWS DevOps Engineer (via Toptal)
Yara International - Belgium
- Built a platform using Terraform and GitHub Actions to deploy automated and scalable configuration across 100+ AWS accounts in the organization.
- Architected AWS solutions for global usage, writing custom Lambdas for AWS config checks, security hub remediation, etc.
- Built an original project with JavaScript and MongoDB (hosted on Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DocumentDB) for the management access of data used to deploy landing zones in AWS.
- Configured and maintained multi-region and multicloud networks using the Aviatrix tool and Terraform.
- Aggregated all security data in AWS and integrated with a 3rd-party tool for visibility and SOC integration.
- Configured multiple FortiGate NGFW devices with Terraform.
DevOps Engineer
Portofino
- Developed an automated solution to map users from Google Workspaces to AWS SSO and automatically provision them AWS Workspace station in a multi-region solution.
- Wrote Python Lambdas to interact with AWS SSO and Active Directory (AD).
- Contributed to the infrastructure provisioned with Terraform code with documentation.
Cloud Infrastructure | DevOps Engineer/Consultant
Herbalife Nutrition
- Created and implemented a network architecture for multi-account and multi-app global strategy.
- Connected AWS cloud VPC with an on-premises network using VPN.
- Joined multiple AWS accounts into one AWS organization and enabled AWS SSO integration with on-premises AD.
- Improved cloud security with AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon GuardDuty.
- Supported a new project with DevOps skills using AWS native tools for CI/CD, logging, and monitoring.
- Reviewed, maintained, and created new resources (RG, Azure Virtual Network (VNet), VM, PaaS SQL, etc.) in Azure cloud.
QA Engineer
Ciklum
- Created test cases for the development of a new project for a web application.
- Executed manual unit, integration, and E2E tests on front-end and back-end microservices.
- Ensured the high quality of the product in collaboration with developers.
- Presented a demo of the application to the business during video calls.
Junior QA Engineer
Solwit
- Executed manual tests with testing scenarios and test cases.
- Created test cases for the manual testing of API endpoints using Postman.
- Analyzed automatic test reports and created bugs from failed tests.
Experience
DevOps Codes Academy
https://www.youtube.com/@devopscodes3034DevOps Codes
http://www.devops.codesOnline Shop (React, Node.js, and MongoDB)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk3vtXJgr-Ihttps://github.com/pawelfraczyk/react-shop
Education
Master's Degree in International Relations
Polish Naval Academy - Gdynia, Poland
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Database – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
AWS
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js
Tools
Terraform, GitHub, AWS IAM, AWS Fargate, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon CloudWatch, Git, Grafana, Graylog, CircleCI, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon WorkSpaces, Ansible, Virtualmin, Google Workspace, NPM
Frameworks
AWS Well-Architected Framework, Next.js, AWS HA
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Automation, Testing, Azure DevOps, DevSecOps
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, AWS ALB, AWS Lambda, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, Ubuntu, AWS IoT, WordPress, Vanta, PagerDuty
Languages
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP
Storage
Datadog, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB
Other
AWS DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Terraform Cloud, AWS Cloud Security, SysOps, Networks, Aviatrix, Scripting Languages, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Networking, Automation Testing, Deployment, AWS Organizations, Amazon Route 53, Azure Virtual Networks, Single Sign-on (SSO), Prometheus, API Integration, Cloud, Security, Web App Security, Amazon RDS, Cloud Architecture, Active Directory Federation, ServiceNow, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Cloud Migration, Script Installation, Cloud Governance, IT Security, SOC 2, APIs
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