Flakron Rexhepaj
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Developer
Flakron is a cloud solutions architect with seven years of experience in high-scale infrastructure optimization, systems administration, and process automation. Flakron has containerized applications, written and deployed infrastructure environments using Infrastructure-as-Code templates, configured AWS resources and services, built release processes using CI/CD pipelines, and supported SaaS-related projects by building customized monitoring solutions.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Ubuntu, Slack, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, CI/CD Pipelines, Azure, SaaS, Terraform
The most amazing...
...thing I have worked on is a scalable and complex application infrastructure handling more than five million requests per minute.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
ASU Pocket - University Technology Office
- Managed infrastructure resources such as RDS, EC2, Lambda functions, ECS, etc., in multiple environments deployed in various AWS Accounts using Terraform.
- Created from scratch and operated CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline.
- Built a customized GitHub webhook to send notifications to a Slack alerts channel.
- Troubleshooted and supported developers on day-to-day tasks.
AWS Elasticsearch Expert | Documentation
Tsundoku Partners LLC
- Built scripts to migrate millions of documents to Elasticsearch.
- Provisioned and configured Elasticsearch in AWS using CloudFormation.
- Leveraged an Elasticsearch API using Python to write/read batch documents.
Cloud Engineer
Exasol
- Created and executed automation for cloud operations tasks.
- Built and supported SaaS-related cloud services and resources.
- Collaborated with the support engineer team to maintain, monitor, and improve the operation of applications on cloud platforms.
- Established service-level objectives and built observability to ensure that objectives were met.
- Created runbooks to empower the support engineer team operating our cloud environments.
- Troubleshot incidents, identified the root cause for bugs and issues, fixed and documented found bugs and issues, and implemented preventive measures.
Automation/DevOps Engineer | Consultant
Exasol
- Automated release tasks using Python and developed a product test framework.
- Built and deployed CloudFormation templates as an IaC tool.
- Provisioned and configured AWS resources and services using CloudFormation templates.
- Developed Python scripts to optimize CI/CD tasks where native built-in functions couldn't do the job.
- Developed software through Jira using Agile methodology.
DevOps Engineer
Polymath Labs
- Designed technical infrastructure diagrams for cloud environments.
- Provisioned and configured AWS resources and services.
- Developed continuous integration and continuous delivery of code using an Agile process.
- Containerized an application using Docker and built a data migration tool with Python.
- Integrated code quality tools such SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines.
- Version-controlled source code through Git, Bitbucket, and Azure VSTS.
- Designed and deployed serverless application infrastructures using Draw.io and serverless framework.
- Troubleshot, monitored, and reported application usage.
- Developed software through Jira and Azure VSTS using Agile.
Network and QA Engineer
3CIS J.S.C.
- Developed a web application using PHP and Python to distribute commands to different RHEL VMs and store the output for reporting and further analyzing.
- Installed and maintained Apache web server through XAMPP in CentOS 7.
- Wrote tests for different internal processes with Python. Wrote full script documentation, including test execution and results.
- Provided troubleshooting sessions on the various issues of different platforms.
- Audited and prepared report documents for commercial ports in core routers for commercial port migration.
- Generated configuration scripts through ANRS and created MOPs for each commercial port service (EPL, EVPL, ENS, EDIA).
Experience
Digital Identity Application for Arizona State University
https://getpocket.io/Document Search Engine
Monitoring Solution for a DBaaS
Skills
Languages
Python, SQL, C#, C++, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP
Tools
Boto 3, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Slack, Jira, Jenkins, CircleCI, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Grafana, GitHub, Git, Amazon EKS, Draw.io, GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Chef, Docker Compose, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Paradigms
DevOps, Agile, Azure DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery (CD), Serverless Architecture, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), DevSecOps, Automation
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Ubuntu, Azure, CentOS, Docker, Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, AWS IoT, AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Datadog, Databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Cloud Deployment, AWS Elastic File System, Elasticsearch
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud, AWS DevOps, Cloud Services, RHEL, Cloud Migration, Code Deployment, Coding, Consulting, Amazon API Gateway, API Gateways, Load Balancers, APIs, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Network Protocols, Serverless, SaaS, Data Structures, IT Project Management, Algorithms, CCNA, Cisco, Flow Diagrams, Cloud Storage, Networking, IP Routing, Network Configuration, Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Data, SIEM, GitOps, Cloud Security, AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect (DC), Amazon Route 53, DNS, Amazon RDS, AWS CodePipeline, Cloud Engineering, IT Infrastructure, Datadog API, SaaS Monitoring
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Pristina "Hasan Prishtina" - Pristina, Kosovo
Certifications
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
HashiCorp
Amazon Web Services Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Developer Associate
AWS
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
AWS
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco
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