Ael is available for hire

Ael Gain

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Paris, France

Toptal Member Since

November 21, 2019

Ael has eight years of infrastructure provisioning automation experience. He started at OVH, the largest European host, and focuses on serving scalable and robust services on Kubernetes, AWS, and Google Cloud and ensuring developer productivity with efficient CI/CD pipelines for Node.js and Golang on GitLabCI, CircleCI, and Drone.io.

GitHub Terraform Docker DevOps GitLab CircleCI Helm Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)Kubernetes Amazon EC2 Amazon S3 (AWS S3)Amazon EKS Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Bash Linux Rancher

Portfolio

Hubside

Node.js, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Google Cloud, Kubernetes

Habx

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, CircleCI, Terraform...

Thales

PostgreSQL, Java, Node.js, Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, Docker, Rancher...

Experience

DevOps - 5 years Terraform - 5 years GitLab - 3 years Kubernetes - 3 years Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 2 years Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) - 1 year Amazon EKS - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitLab, Terraform, Google Cloud, Kubernetes

The most amazing...

...project was the implement infinite upscaling on Kubernetes/AWS to provide the fastest results for CPU-intensive tasks for a team of data scientists.

Work Experience

DevOps

2019 - PRESENT

Hubside

Managed a set of Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud with Terraform (one per company product and per dev/staging/production).
Managed CI/CD pipeline for auto tests and deployment of Node.js code.
Provisioned side infrastructure (buckets, CDN, and PostgreSQL Cloud instances).
Contributed to Python scripting.

Technologies: Node.js, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Google Cloud, Kubernetes

Lead Devops

2017 - 2019

Habx

Designed and maintained Kubernetes clusters on AWS.
Designed a full-stack infrastructure (SNS/SQS/RDS/S3) and API call flow for a set of ~20 microservices.
Set up a test REST API in Python Flask and a Kubernetes cluster for CPU intensive task from a data scientist team.
Developed the microservices back end in Node.js.
Set up and maintained CI/CD pipelines on Drone.io, CircleCI for autotests, lint, and deployment of Node.js code on Kubernetes.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, CircleCI, Terraform, Kubernetes

DevOps

2015 - 2017

Thales

Set up and maintained a Rancher cluster on Openstack.
Set up and maintained CI/CD pipelines for Node.js and Java code.

Technologies: PostgreSQL, Java, Node.js, Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, Docker, Rancher, OpenStack

System/Network Admin

2012 - 2015

OVH

Wrote Perl scripts to automate customer actions on network hardware.

Technologies: PostgreSQL, Perl, Router Development, LB, Cisco, Linux

Experience

WordPress on ECS

https://github.com/ael-g/wordpress-ecs

Terraform manifests to deploy WordPress on ECS (before I discovered Kubernetes).

Skills

Tools

Terraform, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, GitHub, Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Helm, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Jenkins

Paradigms

DevOps

Platforms

Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, Docker, Google App Engine, Linux, OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Rancher, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud

Languages

Python 3, Python 2, Python, Bash, Java, Perl

Libraries/APIs

Node.js

Other

Cisco, LB, Router Development

Education

2007 - 2012

Master's Degree in Computer Engineering

INSA de Rouen - France

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