Atha Kouroussis
Verified Expert in Engineering
Unix Shell Scripting Developer
Atha is a senior DevOps engineer and IT architect with 20+ years of experience in a wide range of IT initiatives. As a former CTO of an IaaS and managed services company, automation, thinking at scale, and customer focus have become his main drivers. His eagerness to learn and explore new technologies and extensive IT experience make him uniquely suited to leverage technology to produce flexible solutions that adapt to business needs.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Terraform, Ansible, Git, Vim Text Editor, Zsh, Linux
The most amazing...
...project I've led is the migration of an entire on-premises datacenter to a multi-cloud architecture.
Work Experience
Director of Cloud Sevices and DevOps
Belatrix Software
- Created and bootstrapped the company's cloud services unit.
- Designed, managed, and supported the cloud Infrastructure of multiple customers at multiple cloud providers.
- Designed and executed multiple inter-cloud infrastructure migrations.
- Oversaw recruiting and training, resource allocation, and employee assessment.
- Designed and executed the company's cloud partnership strategy.
CEO | CTO | Co-founder
Vurbia Technologies
- Designed, managed, and supported the company's VMware-based IaaS.
- Designed and executed the company's shift to become a managed services provider.
- Architected and implemented many tailor-made infrastructure solutions for company customers.
- Designed and developed numerous internal Ansible roles and Terraform modules.
- Built and mentored a cohesive, diversely qualified IT team.
Senior IT Architect and Consultant
Uniqs
- Provided consulting services to a wide variety of companies in Latin America.
- Designed and implemented several high-availability and disaster recovery solutions for various systems and platforms.
- Performed numerous capacity planning and performance assessments.
- Designed and implemented multiple early-stage automation and configuration management solutions.
- Developed custom tools for analysis of capacity planning and performance assessment data.
Operations and IT Manager
Naviera Petrosan
- Recruited to organize and manage the company's operations department.
- Established and managed an enterprise-wide IT program.
- Oversaw company-wide efforts to identify and evaluate all critical systems.
- Designed and implemented security processes and procedures.
- Designed and oversaw the development of a web-based application for the company's operational needs.
Senior IT Architect
spyn Inc.
- Recruited to provide consulting services to a wide variety of companies worldwide.
- Supervised integration of heterogeneous platforms.
- Provided final approval for fully functional mission-critical solutions.
- Managed the creation of high-profile high availability transaction processing (HATP) solutions, supervising development teams working in multiple locations.
- Designed and supervised the implementation of several high-availability and disaster recovery solutions for various systems and platforms.
Senior Unix Engineer | Systems Architect
Unifon (Telefonica)
- Provided internal support to the Unix development team for the company's mission-critical application.
- Co-managed and designed the company's Unix infrastructure.
- Capacity-planned and supervised the migration of Miniphones Unix infrastructure to Unifon.
- Designed and supervised the implementation of the company's new data center for the above migration.
- Implemented several high-availability solutions involving Sun Enterprise 10000 Servers and EMC Symmetrix disk arrays.
Experience
Implementation of a Mission Critical High Availability Solution
Skills
Languages
Bash, Java, Python, Ruby, SQL
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Helm, Git, Ansible Tower, Vault, Jenkins, VMware vSphere, Vagrant, Vim Text Editor, Apache, NGINX, Postfix, OpenVPN, GitHub, Zsh, VMware, Dell EMC, Hitachi HPLC, Traefik, VirtualBox, Nagios, Grafana, RabbitMQ, Zabbix, GitLab CI/CD
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery (CD), Automation, Testing, Agile Software Development
Platforms
Kubernetes, Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, DigitalOcean, Windows, Oracle, Tru64, AIX, Azure, Solaris, Percona
Other
Architecture, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Cloud, Cloud Architecture, IBM Cloud, Unix Shell Scripting, DNS, System Administration, CI/CD Pipelines, Containerization, Orchestration, Nomad, Consul, HAProxy, Unix/Linux Virtualization, NFS, Quality Assurance (QA), Digital, Systems Engineering, Prometheus, Cloudflare
Storage
MySQL, MariaDB, Datadog, Google Cloud Storage, PostgreSQL, Memcached, Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Education
Progress Towards a Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering
Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Certifications
Sun Certified Systems Adminstrator for Solaris 10
Sun Microsystems
How to Work with Toptal
Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.
Share your needs
Choose your talent
Start your risk-free talent trial
Top talent is in high demand.
Start hiring