Boban Petrovic
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer
Stamford, United States
Toptal member since April 20, 2017
In a nine-year-long professional career, working as a Linux System and DevOps engineer for IT companies, Boban has gained significant experience, knowledge, and highly developed skills in the Linux world, including system administration and engineering. He's a proven high performer and has worked in many different environments. Boban is a flexible team member who's willing to work passionately both on team projects and on individual projects.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux Administration - 10 years
- Python - 8 years
- MySQL - 7 years
- Ansible - 6 years
- AWS Cloud Architecture - 6 years
- Docker - 5 years
- Amazon - 5 years
- Continuous Deployment - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
The most amazing...
...project I've designed and deployed was a complex service infrastructure for intelligent predictive sport-bet modeling.
Work Experience
System Engineer | DevOps Engineer
Stratagem Technologies
- Designed and deployed a continuous integration system.
- Maintained the security of the general system.
- Discovered system bottlenecks, optimized and designed solutions for optimal resource usage.
- Made the services and the infrastructure highly available and fault tolerant.
- Designed the systems for load-balancing.
Web Services DevOps
Flow Mathematics (Toptal)
- Set up web servers with Let's Encrypt certificates.
- Implemented web server security with the best practices.
DevOps Engineer (AWS)
House So Green (Toptal)
- Set up the AWS infrastructure for the new project from scratch.
- Implemented a CI/CD design using AWS services.
- Designed the network.
- Worked on high availability and load balancing.
AWS Expert
Select Quote (Toptal)
- Containerized the Node.js application.
- Deployed the containerized application to AWS Fargate, and ECS.
- Designed the VPC.
- Implemented a CI/CD.
- Worked on high availability and load balancing.
Senior Cloud Engineer
Staunch Technologies (Toptal)
- Migrated the server infrastructure to an AWS platform.
- Implemented high availability and load balancing.
- Installed the encryption for various AWS services.
MySQL Database Administrator
ShowClix (Toptal)
- Migrated the traditional asynchronous replication to Galera-based replication.
- Maintained and secured the MySQL environment.
Linux Lecturer
Admin Training Center
- Lectured on Linux, LPIC levels.
- Created demos, home projects, and exercises for students.
System Engineer
Mainstream
- Designed, deployed, and maintained services and infrastructure for the web environment.
- Maintained the general system's security.
- Optimized various services in a web environment.
- Optimized the MySQL queries.
- Designed and implemented HA and load balancing systems.
Network and Linux System Engineer
Datatek
- Maintained and secured the general system services and infrastructure.
- Handled Linux-based load-balancing and high-availability solutions.
- Advanced the integration of Linux and Microsoft Windows services (AD, CA, WMI, and more).
- Managed the network security.
- Implemented monitoring and alert services.
Junior Network and Linux System Engineer
AVcom
- Implemented and administered web services in a Linux environment.
- Implemented monitoring and alert services.
- Worked on Cisco networking and general network maintenance.
- Provided customer support—level 2 and technical support for other departments.
Experience
More than 10 Years of Experience as a DevOps Engineer
Education
Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications and IT)
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Belgrade, Serbia
Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, Amazon EC2 API, WMI, Redis Queue, Singularity.js
Tools
Docker Swarm, Bitbucket, Git, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CodeCommit, PM2, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Syslog, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS ELB, Systemd, Postfix, Citrix NetScaler, RabbitMQ, NGINX, MySQL Performance Tuning, Apache ZooKeeper, Jenkins, Apache, Ansible, Iptables, PHP-FPM, Apache Solr, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeBuild, GitLab, GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Squid Proxy Server, Varnish, Docker Compose, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Let's Encrypt, VirtualBox, Keepalived, Citrix Xencentre, Mesos, Apache Tomcat, AWS IAM, AWS Fargate, VPN, Amazon Cognito, Pacemaker, Corosync, AWS CLI, Terraform, Chef
Languages
Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Go, PHP 7
Frameworks
AWS HA, Spark, Apache Spark
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Microservices Architecture
Platforms
Ubuntu, Docker, Amazon EC2, Percona, Ubuntu Linux, Linux, Linux RHEL/CentOS, CentOS, Apache2, Amazon, Ubuntu 14.04, System V, Citrix, XenServer, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure
Storage
MongoDB, LAMP Server, MySQL Server, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL/MariaDB, MySQL Clustering, MariaDB, MySQL, Memcached, Elasticsearch, AWS Elastic File System, Redis Cache, Redis, Cassandra
Other
Networks, IP Networks, Network Engineering, Containers, Container Orchestration, Amazon Route 53, AWS Cloud Architecture, Network Security, Linux Administration, HTTP Server, Linux Servers, Web Servers, Server Management, System Administration, Relational Database Services (RDS), Elastic Load Balancers, Network Protocols, Load Balancers, Ubuntu Server, Optimization, Galera Cluster, Query Optimization, HAProxy, Public Health, Security, SELinux, LPIC-1, Cisco, BIND 9, BIND9, FTP, Courier, AWS CodePipeline, DNS Configuration, DNS Servers, DNS, Redis Clusters, IPv4, Proxy Servers, XenApp, Virtualization, Apache Cassandra, Identity & Access Management (IAM), ECS, Amazon API Gateway, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
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