Boris is available for hire

Boris Maryshev

Verified Expert in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Tallinn, Estonia

Toptal member since October 20, 2019

Expertise

DNS System Security Cloud Engineering System Administration Remote Development DevOps AWS DevOps Site Reliability Back-end Developers Cloudflare AWS RDS Linux Unix Linux System Administration Nexus Amazon S3

Bio

Boris brings two decades of experience in the technology industry, having worked for globally recognizable brands like Skype and Volvo Cars. He has a proven track record in roles such as DevOps engineer, software developer, and infrastructure lead. A generalist at heart, he loves learning and working with emerging technologies like Cloud, AI, and decentralized finance.

Portfolio

Volvo Car

Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)...

Napali OÜ

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Python...

Paraswap.io

Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Python, Node.js, CI/CD Pipelines...

Experience

Linux - 20 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 15 years
Python - 15 years
DevOps - 15 years
PostgreSQL - 14 years
Cloud Security - 10 years
ELK (Elastic Stack) - 7 years
Google Cloud - 5 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Terraform, Cloud, Startups, Remote Work, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DevOps, Observability Tools, Azure

The most amazing...

...companies I've worked with are Skype and Volvo Cars. Both were at the forefront of innovation and changed the world in their respective fields.

Work Experience

Senior Platform Engineer | Observability

2024 - PRESENT

Volvo Car

Worked on building and scaling Volvo Cars' cloud and observability platforms.
Created monitoring-as-code GitOps pipelines and provided documentation and workshops for Volvo Cars developers.
Integrated Azure OpenAI Service into the observability platform to provide improved data insights for the developers.
Worked with external vendors to prioritize new feature development for the observability platforms.
Created architectural diagrams and other design documents for the cloud platforms.

Technologies: Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon EKS, Elastic, Elastic APM, API Observability, Terraform, Cloud Architecture, Monorepos, Akamai, Cost Control, User Onboarding, Azure OpenAI Service, Dashboards, Distributed Tracing, GitOps, GitHub Actions, Cloud Security, Best Practices, Azure Event Hubs, VPN, TypeScript, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), User Monitoring, Enterprise, Platforms, OpenTelemetry, Observability Tools, Argo CD, Canary Deployment, Crossplane, Back-end APIs, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Distributed Systems, Grafana k6, Node.js, NestJS, Cloud Computing, Database Administration (DBA), 1Password, Loki, Self-managed Kubernetes, Claude, OpenAI, GitHub Copilot Chat, GitHub Runners, LaunchDarkly, Alloy, Go

Tech Lead | Senior DevOps | MLOps & LLMOps | Python Developer

2012 - PRESENT

Napali OÜ

Developed and deployed scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant back-end microservices using Python and Node.js.
Architected, built, and scaled the cloud infrastructure for market-leading clients worldwide.
Implemented best practices like infrastructure as code (IaC), GitOps, and SRE for cloud infrastructure deployments.
Built and scaled RDBMS as well as NoSQL database clusters.
Built CI/CD as well as MLOps pipelines in AWS and GCP clouds.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Python, Linux, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, Flask, Ubuntu, Bash, SQL, Ubuntu Server, Continuous Delivery (CD), APIs, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnet, Networking, VPN, Security, GitHub, Amazon EC2, System Administration, Monitoring, Startups, Linux Administration, Access Control, User Permissions, Llama 2, ChatGPT, Microservices Architecture, Redis Cache, Data Engineering, Unix, Ruby, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Orchestration, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), AWS CLI, Database Management, Heroku, Memcached, Samba, Linux Servers, Data Center Infrastructure, Data Centers, Git, Apache, Datadog, Transport Layer Security (TLS), Complex Problem Solving, VMware, Containerization, Windows PowerShell, Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), PHP, High-availability Linux, Networks, Cloud Infrastructure, APM, Database Security, IT Security, Amazon SageMaker, Nessus, SQLAlchemy, Python 3, Vim Text Editor, Network Security, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), Large Language Models (LLMs), BERT, Test-driven Development (TDD), FFmpeg, GPU Computing, Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Cloudflare, Remote Work, Ethereum, DNS, Migration, SMTP, Server Migration, GoDaddy, DNS Servers, Google Workspace, Gmail, Email, OpenVPN, Azure DevOps, HAProxy, Shell Scripting, OpenSSL, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Spreadsheets, OpenAI, Google BigQuery, Observability Tools, HTTPS, Scripting Languages, Squid Proxy Server, IPsec, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Firewalls, Back-end APIs, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Computing, Zapier, 1Password, Self-managed Kubernetes, Ollama, Claude, GitHub Copilot Chat, GitHub Runners, Go, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Senior DevOps Engineer

2023 - 2023

Paraswap.io

Developed Terraform module to scale the company's microservices by splitting inbound traffic more granularly on the load balancer level depending on the blockchain net use.
Developed Terraform module for automating the deployment of anomaly-sensing alerting of services.
Monitored, analyzed, and proactively blocked various bots and other attacks against the company's services.

Technologies: Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Python, Node.js, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), TypeScript, Ethereum, Data Engineering, Data Pipelines, Blockchain, JavaScript, Amazon Aurora, ChatGPT, Microservices Architecture, Redis Cache, Unix, ECS, GitHub Actions, AWS CloudFormation, Scalability, Orchestration, AWS CLI, Database Management, DevOps Engineer, Continuous Integration (CI), Encryption, AWS IAM, MongoDB, Containers, Amazon API Gateway, AWS ALB, Linux Servers, Virtual Machines, Git, Blockchain as a Service, Complex Problem Solving, Containerization, Dynamic Load Balancing, Microservices, Application Security, Web Security, DevSecOps, Postman, Elastic Load Balancers, Networks, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, APM, Single Sign-on (SSO), Data Lakes, Data Privacy, Database Security, IT Security, Cloud Architecture, Python 3, Distributed Ledgers, Continuous Deployment, Vim Text Editor, AWS VPN, Infrastructure, Network Security, NoSQL, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), Fintech, Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Remote Work, Amazon Cognito, API Gateways, DNS, DNS Servers, Gmail, OpenVPN, Logging, Shell Scripting, Cybersecurity, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Spreadsheets, User Authentication, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, Scalable Application, Back-end, API Development, Observability Tools, HTTPS, Scripting Languages, CORS, DocumentDB, JavaScript 6, Oracle Cloud, AWS Fargate, Firewalls, Web Application Firewall (WAF), SIEM, Redshift, AWS Monitoring, Back-end APIs, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Distributed Systems, WebSockets, Cloud Computing, Web3, OpenAI, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Infrastructure Tech Lead

2019 - 2023

Multilogin

Managed all aspects of the company's IT infrastructure, including bare-metal and cloud hosting providers, multiple production and development clusters, user-facing and internal services, networks and VPNs, and monitoring and logging.
Led a team of DevOps, SRE, and DBA professionals to maintain the high availability and security of the company's services.
Built logging and monitoring of the company's infrastructure and services using ELK Stack, Elastic APM, New Relic, PagerDuty, Prometheus, Grafana, and other tools.
Led several infrastructure migrations, from bare-metal Docker Swarm to fully cloud-hosted managed Kubernetes clusters.
Led the migration of cloud storage from DigitalOcean Spaces to Amazon S3.
Participated in on-call rotations, analyzed and resolved various production issues, compiled post-mortems, and implemented improvements.

Technologies: Docker Swarm, Ansible, Elastic, Kibana, New Relic, Nexus, Terraform, PagerDuty, MySQL, Percona, Galera Cluster, Apache Cassandra, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Cloudflare, SecOps, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnet, Networking, VPN, Security, GitLab CI/CD, AWS DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Deployment, GitHub, Amazon EC2, Load Balancers, Grafana, System Administration, CentOS, SaaS, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Amazon RDS, Monitoring, Startups, SSL, Amazon EKS, Linux Administration, Access Control, User Permissions, Clustering, Amazon Aurora, Technical Leadership, Microservices Architecture, Redis Cache, Unix, Helm, ECS, Argo CD, GitOps, Docker Compose, Go, GitHub Actions, Scalability, Orchestration, AWS CLI, Database Management, DevOps Engineer, Continuous Integration (CI), Encryption, AWS IAM, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Prometheus, Bitbucket, Solution Architecture, Java, Containers, Windows System Administration, Linux Servers, Virtual Machines, Data Center Infrastructure, Data Centers, Windows Server, Git, Data Encryption, Transport Layer Security (TLS), Apache Kafka, Complex Problem Solving, Containerization, Dynamic Load Balancing, Windows PowerShell, Microservices, NGINX, Application Security, Web Security, DevSecOps, High-availability Linux, MySQL/MariaDB, GitLab, Elastic Load Balancers, Networks, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, APM, Elastic APM, Data Privacy, Database Security, IT Security, Cloud Architecture, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Kanban, Vim Text Editor, Gatsby, Hugo, Docker, Infrastructure, Hardware, Network Security, NoSQL, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), Security Audits, Jenkins Pipeline, Cloud, Remote Work, Scraping, Amazon DynamoDB, SDKs, Mail Servers, DNS, Migration, SMTP, Server Migration, GoDaddy, DNS Servers, Email, Microsoft Outlook, OpenVPN, DMARC, SPF, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), Email Delivery, MySQLdb, Logging, Shell Scripting, Penetration Testing, OpenSSL, Cybersecurity, YAML, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Jira, Spreadsheets, User Authentication, Scalable Application, Confluence, Multitenancy, Enterprise SaaS, Back-end, Observability Tools, HTTPS, Scripting Languages, MinIO, CORS, Firewalls, Web Application Firewall (WAF), SIEM, Canary Deployment, Back-end APIs, Kafka Streams, Redis Streams, OVH, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Distributed Systems, WebSockets, Cloud Computing, Database Administration (DBA), 1Password, Loki, OpenAI, GitHub Runners

Senior DevOps Engineer

2022 - 2022

Climate Engine

Built scalable Kubernetes clusters for Climate Engine's back-end services and website using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
Implemented GCP best practices for deploying GKE clusters.
Created and managed Cloud SQL databases for Climate Engine's back-end services.

Technologies: Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Kubernetes, Google Cloud SQL, WordPress, Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines, APIs, Architecture, Subnet, Networking, API Testing, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitHub, Load Balancers, SaaS, Startups, SSL, Linux Administration, Access Control, User Permissions, Clustering, Unix, Helm, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), DevOps Engineer, Containers, Samba, Linux Servers, Git, Complex Problem Solving, Containerization, Dynamic Load Balancing, Microservices, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, Elastic Load Balancers, Cloud Infrastructure, Database Security, Cloud Architecture, Vim Text Editor, Docker, Infrastructure, Google Cloud Storage, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), Cloud, Remote Work, Distributed Computing, GIS, DNS, Gmail, MySQLdb, Shell Scripting, YAML, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Spreadsheets, Data Visualization, HTTPS, Firewalls, Back-end APIs, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Computing

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

2020 - 2022

OpenReel

Built and maintained Openreel's AWS cloud infrastructure at a high level of security and fault tolerance that eventually was certified to ISO 27001:2013 standard.
Collaborated closely with OpenReel's development team on launching a new generation remote video creation platform on AWS using infrastructure as code (CDK) and SRE best practices.
Built Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana (ELK) cluster for collecting and analyzing OpenReel microservices' logs.
Deployed, monitored, and scaled OpenReel's remote video creation platforms.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Security, Linux, Node.js, FFmpeg, GPU Computing, Elastic, ELK (Elastic Stack), Security Audits, MySQL, New Relic, Ubuntu, Bash, SQL, Ubuntu Server, Agile Software Development, Continuous Delivery (CD), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnet, Networking, Security, API Testing, AWS DevOps, AWS Secrets Manager, SecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Deployment, GitHub, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, System Administration, SaaS, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Amazon RDS, Monitoring, Startups, SSL, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Linux Administration, Access Control, User Permissions, Clustering, Amazon Aurora, Unix, GitHub Actions, AWS CloudFormation, Scalability, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), AWS CLI, DevOps Engineer, AWS IAM, Elasticsearch, Containers, AWS ALB, Samba, Linux Servers, Virtual Machines, Git, Data Encryption, Transport Layer Security (TLS), Complex Problem Solving, Containerization, Dynamic Load Balancing, Microservices, NGINX, Application Security, Web Security, MySQL/MariaDB, Elastic Load Balancers, Networks, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, APM, Single Sign-on (SSO), Data Privacy, Database Security, IT Security, Cloud Architecture, Continuous Deployment, Kanban, Vim Text Editor, Docker, AWS VPN, Infrastructure, Hardware, Network Security, NoSQL, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), JavaScript, Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Remote Work, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Amazon OpenSearch, DNS, Migration, GoDaddy, DNS Servers, Gmail, MySQLdb, Logging, Shell Scripting, Penetration Testing, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Jira, Spreadsheets, User Authentication, Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, Scalable Application, Confluence, Enterprise SaaS, Observability Tools, HTTPS, Scripting Languages, CORS, JavaScript 6, Quality of Service (QoS), Firewalls, SIEM, AWS Monitoring, Canary Deployment, Back-end APIs, Redis Streams, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Distributed Systems, WebSockets, Cloud Computing, Loki

CTO | Python Developer | DevSecOps

2019 - 2020

sanctions.io

Resurrected the project after the main developer left and made it into a fully marketable SaaS offering.
Collaborated with partners, existing and prospective clients, and company owners on developing new integrations with PEP lists, police databases, and more.
Developed request tracking and billing systems to enable marketing of what previously was just a SAP plugin as a complete SaaS offering.

Technologies: Django, SAP, Stripe API, Stripe, PostgreSQL, XML, Govtech, Know Your Customer (KYC), WordPress, SecOps, Complex Problem Solving, Containerization, NGINX, Web Security, PHP, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Privacy, Database Security, IT Security, Cloud Architecture, Django REST Framework, Python 3, Django-allauth, Vim Text Editor, Infrastructure, Network Security, Fintech, Cloud, Remote Work, Scraping, API Gateways, SDKs, Mail Servers, DNS, Migration, SMTP, Server Migration, DNS Servers, Google Workspace, Gmail, Email, Shell Scripting, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Spreadsheets, User Authentication, Enterprise SaaS, Back-end, API Development, Integration, HTTPS, Scripting Languages, Firewalls, Back-end APIs, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Computing, Database Administration (DBA)

Senior DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2020

Mynd

Worked on improving all parts of Mynd's AWS Infrastructure-as-a-Code, utilizing GitOps best practices.
Built and maintained data pipelines used by BI/Data mining teams for providing fast and actionable business intelligence.
Participated in Scrum standups, plannings, backlog grooming, and planning poker estimation like rituals required in Agile team.
Helped onboard junior team members to the team in the quickest and most efficient way posible.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Amazon RDS, ELK (Elastic Stack), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), SaaS, Amazon Cognito, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Monitoring, Startups, SSL, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Linux Administration, Access Control, User Permissions, Clustering, Amazon Aurora, Microservices Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Pipelines, Unix, ECS, GitOps, Scalability, Orchestration, AWS CLI, Database Management, DevOps Engineer, Continuous Integration (CI), Datadog, AWS IAM, Elasticsearch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Containers, AWS ALB, Linux Servers, Virtual Machines, Git, Complex Problem Solving, Containerization, Dynamic Load Balancing, ETL, Microservices, NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB, Postman, Elastic Load Balancers, Networks, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, APM, Single Sign-on (SSO), Data Lakes, Data Privacy, Database Security, Cloud Architecture, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Kanban, Vim Text Editor, Docker, AWS VPN, Infrastructure, Elastic, Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Remote Work, Amazon OpenSearch, Mail Servers, DNS, SMTP, DNS Servers, Google Workspace, Gmail, Email, OpenVPN, DMARC, SPF, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), Email Delivery, MySQLdb, Logging, Shell Scripting, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Jira, Spreadsheets, User Authentication, Amazon CloudWatch, Confluence, Observability Tools, HTTPS, CORS, Kotlin, AWS Fargate, Firewalls, Canary Deployment, Back-end APIs, Kafka Streams, Redis Streams, Identity & Access Management (IAM), WebSockets, Cloud Computing

Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer

2016 - 2019

Naga Group AG

Built a highly scalable and secure back-end trading infrastructure.
Created auto-scaling, auditable, and well-monitored AWS clusters and supported a successful IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Utilized best security practices and created a highly-available Blockchain infrastructure in support of a successful ICO.
Worked with senior management and technical teams to minimize infrastructure costs while maintaining high availability.
Built and integrated various monitoring tools to ensure high availability and integrity.
Resolved issues detected by monitoring systems on a 24-hour basis as the primary contact.

Technologies: DevOps, Red Hat Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PagerDuty, New Relic, MetaTrader, PostgreSQL, Windows Server, Linux, Blockchain, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL, Trading Systems, Encryption, Systems Monitoring, Distributed Tracing, Ubuntu, Bash, SQL, Ubuntu Server, Continuous Delivery (CD), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnet, Networking, VPN, Security, API Testing, AWS DevOps, SecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Deployment, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, Grafana, System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Amazon RDS, Monitoring, Startups, SSL, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Linux Administration, Access Control, User Permissions, Clustering, Technical Leadership, Microservices Architecture, Redis Cache, Unix, Helm, ECS, GitOps, Docker Compose, CircleCI, Scalability, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Node.js, AWS CLI, Database Management, DevOps Engineer, AWS IAM, Bitbucket, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Containers, Windows System Administration, AWS ALB, Samba, Linux Servers, Virtual Machines, Git, Blockchain as a Service, Data Encryption, Transport Layer Security (TLS), Complex Problem Solving, Containerization, Dynamic Load Balancing, Windows PowerShell, Microservices, NGINX, Application Security, Web Security, DevSecOps, MySQL/MariaDB, Elastic Load Balancers, Networks, Cloud Infrastructure, APM, Database Security, IT Security, Cloud Architecture, Nessus, Distributed Ledgers, Continuous Deployment, Kanban, Vim Text Editor, Docker, Infrastructure, Network Security, NoSQL, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), Stock Market, Fintech, JavaScript, Security Audits, Jenkins Pipeline, Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Cloudflare, Remote Work, Ethereum, Forex Trading, Mail Servers, DNS, Migration, SMTP, Server Migration, GoDaddy, DNS Servers, Google Workspace, Gmail, Email, OpenVPN, DMARC, SPF, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), Email Delivery, HAProxy, MySQLdb, Logging, Shell Scripting, Penetration Testing, OpenSSL, Cybersecurity, YAML, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Jira, Spreadsheets, User Authentication, Amazon CloudWatch, Scalable Application, Confluence, Integration, Observability Tools, HTTPS, Scripting Languages, CORS, Firewalls, Web Application Firewall (WAF), AWS Monitoring, Back-end APIs, Redis Streams, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Distributed Systems, WebSockets, Cloud Computing, Database Administration (DBA), Web3, Zapier, 1Password, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Python Back-end Developer and DevOps Lead

2014 - 2015

Klio Health by Harvard Innovation Labs

Developed scalable Python microservices for a HIPAA-compliant healthcare application.
Collaborated with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure data security and HIPAA compliance.
Built and maintained development, staging, and production environments on AWS cloud.
Built CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment into all environments.
Performed Python and JavaScript code reviews, merges, and deployments.
Built and maintained production-ready Couchbase NoSQL database clusters.

Technologies: DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, CouchDB, ELK (Elastic Stack), RabbitMQ, Celery, Python, Linux, Docker, Flask, Ubuntu, Bash, SQL, Ubuntu Server, Agile Software Development, Continuous Delivery (CD), APIs, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnet, Networking, VPN, Security, API Testing, AWS DevOps, SecOps, Deployment, Amazon EC2, Load Balancers, System Administration, Kibana, SaaS, Startups, SSL, Linux Administration, Access Control, User Permissions, Technical Leadership, Microservices Architecture, Unix, Docker Compose, CircleCI, Orchestration, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), AWS CLI, Database Management, DevOps Engineer, AWS IAM, HIPAA Compliance, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Bitbucket, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Containers, Linux Servers, Virtual Machines, Git, Data Encryption, Transport Layer Security (TLS), Complex Problem Solving, Containerization, Dynamic Load Balancing, Microservices, NGINX, Postman, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Privacy, Database Security, Cloud Architecture, Python 3, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Vim Text Editor, Infrastructure, Couchbase, NoSQL, JavaScript, Jenkins Pipeline, Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Remote Work, SDKs, Mail Servers, DNS, SMTP, DNS Servers, Google Workspace, Gmail, Email, OpenVPN, Email Delivery, Shell Scripting, OpenSSL, YAML, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Jira, Spreadsheets, User Authentication, Confluence, Multitenancy, Back-end, API Development, Integration, HTTPS, Scripting Languages, CORS, Back-end APIs, Redis Streams, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Computing, Database Administration (DBA)

Python Developer and MLOps

2013 - 2013

Nomao

Collaborated with in-house machine learning researchers on improving the company's ML training pipelines and inference back-end performance.
Achieved major improvement (from several weeks to less than a day) in the company's NLP language model (early LLM) performance by utilizing distributed multi-core processing.
Improved cost-effectiveness of running the company's website and databases.

Technologies: Python, Machine Learning, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Startups, PostgreSQL, GIS, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Memcached, Linux Servers, Data Center Infrastructure, Complex Problem Solving, ETL, NGINX, Cloud Infrastructure, APM, SQLAlchemy, Gearman, Vim Text Editor, Infrastructure, Hardware, Jenkins Pipeline, Remote Work, Scraping, Data Engineering, Migration, HAProxy, Shell Scripting, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Spreadsheets, Scalable Application, Back-end, API Development, Integration, HTTPS, Scripting Languages, Back-end APIs, OVH, Distributed Systems, Database Administration (DBA)

Site Reliability Engineer | DevOps | DBA

2005 - 2012

Skype

Built the original distributed monitoring system for Skype P2P and supernode network performance monitoring.
Collected, analyzed, and visualized various Skype performance, quality, and business metrics.
Developed PostgreSQL clusters serving millions of Skype users and internal business intelligence and anti-fraud teams.
Maintained testing and staging environments for agile development teams at Skype.
Maintained and deployed database change pipelines across the whole organization.
Volunteered as Skype for Mac and Skype for mobile beta tester.

Technologies: DevOps, Redis, Cacti, Bash, Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, Shell, Systems Monitoring, SQL, Agile Software Development, Continuous Delivery (CD), Splunk, Architecture, Subnet, Networking, Security, Deployment, Amazon EC2, Load Balancers, System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Monitoring, Startups, Linux Administration, Access Control, User Permissions, Clustering, Microservices Architecture, Data Engineering, Unix, Scalability, Database Management, DevOps Engineer, Continuous Integration (CI), Encryption, Linux Servers, Data Center Infrastructure, Data Centers, Apache, Data Encryption, Complex Problem Solving, Dynamic Load Balancing, Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Application Security, Web Security, DevSecOps, PHP, High-availability Linux, Networks, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Lakes, Data Privacy, Database Security, IT Security, Continuous Deployment, Debian, Kanban, Vim Text Editor, Nagios, Infrastructure, Hardware, Network Security, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), Cloud, Remote Work, Distributed Computing, SDKs, DNS, Migration, Server Migration, Microsoft Outlook, Email Delivery, HAProxy, Logging, Shell Scripting, C, C++, OpenSSL, Cybersecurity, YAML, Troubleshooting, Databases, User Management, Spreadsheets, User Authentication, Data Visualization, Scalable Application, Confluence, Multitenancy, Observability Tools, HTTPS, Scripting Languages, Squid Proxy Server, Music, Quality of Service (QoS), Firewalls, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Database Administration (DBA)

Experience

CI/CD Pipeline for a Python-Flask Microservice

https://github.com/borism/gcp-ci-cd-python-apps

Built a CI/CD pipeline for deploying scalable and secure Python-Flask application to a Google Cloud Platform's Kubernetes Engine cluster. The setup is continuously deployed to a staging environment, while Spinnaker is utilized to approve and manually deploy the app to the production environment.

MLOps Pipeline for Text Sentiment Analysis on Amazon SageMaker

https://github.com/borism/finetune-deploy-bert-with-amazon-sagemaker-for-hugging-face

I created an MLOps pipeline using Amazon SageMaker for fine-tuning and deploying DistilBERT (a smaller, faster, cheaper, and lighter version of Google BERT LLM). Further, I fine-tuned the LLM on the IMDB dataset and made it deployable into a serverless SageMaker Inference endpoint for optimal cost inference. Also, I used spot training instances to optimize training costs.

Education

2002 - 2005

Coursework in IT Systems Development and Administration

Estonian IT College - Tallinn, Estonia

Certifications

MARCH 2016 - PRESENT

Financial Markets

Yale University on Coursera

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Jenkins Pipeline, Django-allauth, Stripe API, SQLAlchemy, Node.js, FFmpeg, Stripe, OpenSSL, API Development, Back-end APIs

Tools

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Shell, Terraform, ELK (Elastic Stack), NGINX, Docker Swarm, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, GitHub, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EKS, AWS IAM, OpenVPN, Logging, Amazon CloudWatch, Confluence, Observability Tools, AWS Fargate, Vim Text Editor, Git, Cacti, Ansible, Jenkins, Celery, Nessus, Apache, Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, Amazon Cognito, Amazon CloudFront CDN, ChatGPT, Docker Compose, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, GIS, Bitbucket, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Postman, GitLab, Amazon OpenSearch, Google Workspace, Jira, Spreadsheets, Squid Proxy Server, Azure OpenAI Service, Grafana k6, Zapier, Claude, Nagios, RabbitMQ, Splunk, GitLab CI/CD, Helm, CircleCI, VMware, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Microsoft Outlook, Kafka Streams, Loki, LaunchDarkly

Languages

Python, Bash, SQL, Python 3, Java, Hugo, YAML, JavaScript, PHP, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, XML, C, C++, JavaScript 6, Kotlin

Frameworks

Flask, Django, Django REST Framework, Gearman, SPF, Alloy, Windows PowerShell, Crossplane, NestJS

Paradigms

Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Microservices, Scalable Application, Continuous Deployment, Agile Software Development, Test Automation, Kanban, Microservices Architecture, Distributed Computing, Samba, DevSecOps, Azure DevOps, Test-driven Development (TDD), HIPAA Compliance, ETL, Penetration Testing, API Observability, Best Practices

Platforms

Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Ubuntu, Debian, New Relic, PagerDuty, Linux, Amazon EC2, Unix, Heroku, AWS ALB, 1Password, DigitalOcean, Blockchain, Red Hat Linux, Percona, AWS Lambda, CentOS, Ethereum, Apache Kafka, Ollama, Windows Server, MetaTrader, CKAN, WordPress, Nexus, Spinnaker, Azure, Azure Event Hubs

Storage

PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Redis Cache, Elasticsearch, Database Security, Databases, MySQL, Redis, CouchDB, Google Cloud, MongoDB, Datadog, Google Cloud SQL, Data Pipelines, Amazon Aurora, Database Management, Memcached, Data Centers, MySQL/MariaDB, Couchbase, NoSQL, Google Cloud Storage, MySQLdb, Redshift, Database Administration (DBA), Amazon DynamoDB, Data Lakes, Oracle Cloud, OVH

Industry Expertise

Cybersecurity, Trading Systems

Other

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