Aleksandar Babic
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Architect and Software Developer
Novi Sad, Serbia
Toptal member since October 7, 2022
With over seven years in the cloud, Aleksandar has architected and built many solutions for various industries, ranging from simple client/server applications to complex, microservice-based, event-driven architectures. As an architect, he has worked hands-on with AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Aleksandar has seen everything from infrastructure as a code, through CI/CD pipelines, containers, and serverless, to the service meshes and GitOps.
Portfolio
Experience
- Python - 8 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 7 years
- DevOps - 7 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- Containers - 6 years
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - 6 years
- Kubernetes - 5 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, GNU, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Containers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CI/CD Pipelines, Serverless, GitOps
The most amazing...
...thing I've implemented was a deep learning platform based on gRPC microservices and Kubernetes orchestration on GCP utilizing GitOps and CI/CD pipelines.
Work Experience
Solutions Architect
OpsGuru
- Helped startups and enterprises to shift to a cloud-native mindset and processes.
- Designed highly available hybrid-cloud solutions for multiple enterprise clients.
- Sustained massive AWS migration acceleration programs for various clients throughout the assessment, mobilization, and migration phases.
- Supervised multiple teams of solutions architects and cloud engineers in implementing complex cloud-native green field and brownfield projects on AWS and GCP public cloud providers.
- Designed and implemented production chaos engineering on Amazon EKS.
DevOps Engineer
Lemongrass Consulting (US), Inc.
- Architected and implemented a GCP Landing Zone automation from scratch. It is now being used by multiple clients in Production environments.
- Developed new features for the AWS Landing Zone automation.
- Did code review for the team members on multiple platform components.
Cloud Architecture Consultant
Globaldatanet
- Architected a fully automated machine learning operations (MLOps) platform utilizing AWS cloud-native services to deliver models into production.
- Supervised a team of four cloud engineers in implementing the MLOps platform while following the security, quality, and performance best practices.
- Communicated directly with the client throughout the whole process.
AWS Cloud Engineer
Globaldatanet
- Architected and developed over 20 projects for a broad scale of clients varying from small startups to giant enterprises, focusing on cloud-native and cost-effective solutions.
- Helped establish organization-wide code quality standards across multiple technology stacks.
- Led multiple teams of other cloud engineers throughout the consulting and code review processes.
- Regularly organized knowledge-sharing sessions focused on improving the quality of the utilization of cloud-native technologies.
Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Aegon Global
- Developed cloud-native, state machine based, serverless microservices on AWS.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines within modules and services.
- Utilized infrastructure as code principles with Terraform and AWS Cloudformation.
- Architected cloud-native, highly available, scalable, enterprise-grade infrastructures.
- Managed an AWS organization with 500+ AWS accounts in multiple organizational units.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Vivify Ideas
- Led an Agile team of 80 developers and set up CI/CD pipelines for 40+ projects with multiple environments.
- Managed infrastructure as code, and configuration management with Ansible to cut provisioning time by 30%.
- Intensively used AWS services, including Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud), ECS, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodeBuild.
- Containerized app environments with Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes.
- Wrote scripts to automate tasks in Bash, Python, and Node.js.
- Architected infrastructure for large-scale applications with high availability and auto-scaling in mind.
Linux System Administrator
PrecisionPros.com Network
- Managed and monitored OpenVZ containers, VPS/VDS, and bare metal servers for hosting customers.
- Automated daily tasks with Ansible and Bash scripts.
- Wrote distributed backup solution for all servers (140+).
- Troubleshot various production issues across the environments.
- Automated OpenVZ container deployment and provisioning.
Experience
Cloud Factory
MLOps Platform
Deep Learning Platform
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
University of Novi Sad - Novi Sad, Serbia
Certifications
Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
Associate Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Developer Associate
AWS
Datadog Technical Specialist
Datadog
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, TensorFlow, React
Tools
Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon CloudWatch, GitHub, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS ELB, GitLab, AWS CLI, AWS IAM, Amazon Cognito, Kustomize, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, Git, Logging, AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), Ansible, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF), CircleCI, Jenkins, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Athena, RabbitMQ, Google Stackdriver, Grafana, Jira, Kibana, Kaniko, Apache Airflow, KVM/Qemu, Zabbix, Nagios, ELK (Elastic Stack), AWS Step Functions, AWS Systems Manager, Amazon Firewall, AWS Service Catalog, Tableau, Gradle, inContact
Languages
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, PHP, GraphQL, SQL, Go, Ruby
Frameworks
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), JSON Web Tokens (JWT), gRPC, Laravel, Django
Paradigms
Agile, DevOps, REST, Enterprise Application Architecture, Microservices Architecture, Microservices, Continuous Integration (CI), Serverless Architecture, Testing, Azure DevOps
Platforms
Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Databricks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Linux, Amazon EC2, Unix, Kubeflow, Apache Kafka, WHMCS, AWS IoT, Azure
Storage
Amazon Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Redis, Datadog, Google Cloud, Databases, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Data Lake Design
Other
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Containers, CI/CD Pipelines, Software Development, Web Development, Observation, GitOps, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Serverless, Argo CD, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon RDS, AWS DevOps, ECS, Scripting, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Cloud, AWS Cloud Architecture, Web Applications, Load Balancers, Elastic Load Balancers, Container Orchestration, Back-end, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Security, Shell Scripting, Cloud Architecture, GNU, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Migration, Architecture, Full-stack, Configuration Management, Pub/Sub, Google Cloud/Suite, APIs, Technical Leadership, Virtual Machines, Technical Documentation, Team Leadership, Software Engineering, API Integration, Infrastructure, Monitoring, Computer Science, Backups, Containerd, Argo Workflow, Google Cloud Build, Amazon Kinesis, Prometheus, Cloudflare, Security, HAProxy, Leadership, Stackdriver, AWS Elemental MediaConvert, SOC 2, Chaos Monkey, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, MLflow, OpenVZ, GitHub Actions, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Single Sign-on (SSO), AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Organizations, DVC, Tableau Server, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Chaos Engineering
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