Phan Thien Phuc
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Developer
Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Toptal member since June 7, 2024
Phan is a dedicated DevOps engineer and experienced solution architect with nine years of professional experience. Passionate about technology and committed to crafting robust IT solutions, he specializes in bridging the gap between development and operations. Phan's expertise encompasses a wide range of technologies and practices, all underpinned by his unwavering dedication to lifelong learning.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 9 years
- Terraform - 7 years
- DevOps - 6 years
- GitHub Actions - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 5 years
- Helm - 4 years
- Amazon EKS - 4 years
- Terragrunt - 3 years
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack, Zoom, Jira, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The most amazing...
...thing I've achieved was migrating an ongoing project to Kubernetes, which resulted in a remarkable 20% reduction in operational costs.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
GeoComply
- Led the end-to-end implementation of the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), improving observability by 60%, reducing incident response time by 40%, and maintaining 99.99% system uptime.
- Drove significant cost optimization for monitoring infrastructure, reducing monthly spend from $270,000 to $100,000 by tuning resource usage and scaling strategies, while ensuring stable system performance and availability.
- Led a full security audit that cut interruption risks by 30%, optimized deployment workflows using ArgoCD, and integrated AI assistant tools that improved daily team efficiency and decision-making by over 25%.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Global Fashion Group
- Built and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines on a self-hosted GitHub runner in Kubernetes, cutting development running costs by 20%.
- Orchestrated a smooth system migration to a new region in one and a half months, ensuring uninterrupted operations and handling high-severity incidents during the transition.
- Coordinated the design, development, and maintenance of cost-effective AWS cloud solutions, including Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EKS, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
- Leveraged Terraform, Terragrunt, and Atlantis to establish an efficient infrastructure as code (IaC) for version-controlled and automated infrastructure provisioning.
- Automated various operational tasks through scripting using Python, Go, and Bash.
- Implemented GitOps methodology using Argo CD, automating deployment processes across multiple environments.
DevOps Engineer
Redcrane
- Developed a streamlined infrastructure that reduced resource dependencies and accelerated environment provision speed.
- Built a load-testing pipeline for the system using Locust, reducing development time spent on a stress-scaling test by 20-30%.
- Implemented a CI/CD process to automate service deployment using GitLab and Helm charts.
DevOps Engineer
GBST
- Developed Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure automation, achieving a 30% decrease in deployment time.
- Leveraged AWS Cost Explorer and customized tagging to track spending, reducing cloud-related expenses by 20%.
- Implemented and oversaw CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, ensuring efficient software delivery and release processes.
Experience
Seller Center
Rocket Ventures launched the platform in August 2013 following a market analysis that determined that existing tools did not meet the requirements for scaling its marketplace platform. The idea was to build an in-house tool and connect it to internal Rocket IT, including Alice & Bob and OMS, to support their further scaling and growth.
The three main business metrics include:
• Enlarging assortment
• Reducing risk management
• Creating additional revenue streams
Certifications
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)
HashiCorp
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Linux Foundation
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt
Tools
Terraform, Amazon EKS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS IAM, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, Helm, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CloudTrail, Slack, Zoom, Jira, Jenkins, GitHub
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), DigitalOcean, JBoss
Languages
Python, Go, Bash, PHP, Java
Paradigms
DevOps
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, MySQL
Other
Atlantis, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD Pipelines, AWS ECS Fargate, Monitoring, Performance Tuning, Backups, Argo CD, Prometheus, Cloud, Architecture, Security, Amazon GuardDuty, Administration, Containers
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