Anton Ustyugov, Developer in Tallinn, Estonia
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Anton Ustyugov

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Software Developer

Tallinn, Estonia

Toptal member since January 7, 2016

Bio

Anton is a solid developer and administrator with more than a decade of experience in the IT industry. Much of the work has been in automatizing, monitoring, and supporting server clusters in environments with multiple data centers. He's strongest technically in Python and enjoys using it in most of his scripts, but he also is well-versed in Bash and C/C++. He also has worked with automatizing systems like SaltStack, CFEngine, Ansible, and Chef.

Portfolio

ETF Flows, LLC
Ansible, Docker, Traefik, Nginx, MySQL, Terraform, DigitalOcean, DevOps, DNS...
BetPawa
AWS, Kubernetes, MySQL, Google Cloud Development, AWS, Akamai, Linux, Jenkins...
Yandex
Bootstrap, JavaScript, Highcharts, Flask, Python, DevOps, DNS...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Bash, Vim Text Editor, Subversion (SVN), Git, Linux, Unix, Go, Snowflake, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), PostgreSQL

The most amazing...

...thing I've writen was a system that calculated the host's traffic counters and represented them via projections.

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

2020 - 2021
ETF Flows, LLC
  • Migrated several apps to docker and automated deployment.
  • Wrote different playbooks to manage servers and applications in Digital Ocean.
  • Automated the server's set up process with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Changed observability with Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK.
Technologies: Ansible, Docker, Traefik, Nginx, MySQL, Terraform, DigitalOcean, DevOps, DNS, Continuous Integration (CI)

DevOps Team Leader

2019 - 2021
BetPawa
  • Managed the DevOps team, gave performance reviews and was on call for the duration of the project.
  • Automated CI/CD procedures with Jenkins and Github actions.
  • Improved technologies by migrating to Kubernetes, optimizing the network part, and changing databases.
  • Set up, upgraded, managed, and deployed Kubernetes clusters.
Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, MySQL, Google Cloud Development, AWS, Akamai, Linux, Jenkins, DevOps, DNS, Cloudflare, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Azure, Grafana, Prometheus, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Development, Amazon EKS

Senior System Administrator | Team Leader | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

2014 - 2019
Yandex
  • Automated the deployment process with Teamcity and configuration built Debian packages.
  • Wrote the monitoring agent for every server. This agent collected information about the net, CPU, and different program specific information as a counter and send it to a graph system.
  • Developed the generator for monitoring checks of thousands of servers and assembling the information about network topology and location.
  • Created web pages with Flask for displaying different types of information; it was mostly with different graphs.
Technologies: Bootstrap, JavaScript, Highcharts, Flask, Python, DevOps, DNS, Microsoft Exchange, Kubernetes, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Development, Monorepos

System Administrator

2018 - 2018
Neoncoat
  • Migrated a website from GoDaddy/DO to AWS.
  • Implemented automation around the soft installation.
  • Setup a new staging/development environment.
Technologies: AWS, Git, Jenkins, DigitalOcean, DNS, Azure, Agile Development

Head of the Operation Group (DevOps)

2013 - 2014
NPTV
  • Supported clusters with real time video content.
  • Monitored and provided automation with Chef..
  • Developed automation deployment with Chef and Fabric.
Technologies: IP Virtual Server (IPVS), Fabric, Chef, Keepalived, HAProxy, C, Python, DevOps, DNS, Agile Development, Monorepos

System Administrator and Senior System Administrator

2007 - 2013
Yandex
  • Wrote automation deployment software.
  • Distributed support for a few data centers projects.
  • Worked a great deal with Linux especially on the network subsystem.
  • Wrote automation scripts using Perl, Python, and Bash.
  • Worked as the team lead in an operation group.
  • Created modification clusters that work in an IPv6 only environment using a Linux environment and checked for bugs with internal software.
Technologies: Tools, Linux, System Administration, Bash, Python, Perl, DNS, Monorepos

Data Center, Help Desk, and Office Support Engineer

2005 - 2007
Yandex
  • Helped the website with aggregating information from monitoring servers using Perl and C.
  • Coded a website to aggregate information about servers all from several sources into one place.
  • Provided engineering support for the data centers.
  • Communicated with users at the help desk.
Technologies: C, Linux
2001 - 2006

Incomplete Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - Dolgoprudniy, Russia

Libraries/APIs

Highcharts, Fabric

Tools

SaltStack, Grafana, Git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub, Nginx, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Jenkins, Microsoft Exchange, Amazon EKS, Jira, Git, Subversion (SVN), Vim Text Editor, Chef, Munin, Keepalived, Nagios, Ngrok, Traefik

Languages

Python, Bash, Perl, JavaScript, Go, C, Snowflake

Paradigms

DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Development

Platforms

Ubuntu, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, Amazon EC2, Linux, Docker, DigitalOcean, Unix, MacOS

Frameworks

CFEngine 3, Flask, Bootstrap

Storage

MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IP Virtual Server (IPVS), Google Cloud Development, Azure

Other

Amazon Route 53, Site Reliability, Systems Monitoring, DNS, Prometheus, CI/CD Pipelines, Monorepos, System Administration, Cloudflare, Office 365, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Tools, Akamai, HAProxy, TCP/IP, Graphite, Unix Shell Scripting

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