Garry Gerber, Developer in Jerusalem, Israel
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Garry Gerber

Verified Expert  in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Location
Jerusalem, Israel
Toptal Member Since
January 29, 2020

Garry has several years of IT experience, along with a track record of exceeding expectations. Currently, he works as a DevOps engineer who manages and develops highly available infrastructures of containerized apps, including leading and architecting IT solutions from start to finish. Garry has exemplary interpersonal and communication skills and thrives in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.

Portfolio

Rapaport
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Pipelines, Bash, AWS CloudFormation, Python, IIS...
Traiana
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bash, Python, Packer, Red Hat SpaceWalk, Kubernetes...
StorePower
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Linux, Solr, Postfix, Magento, Varnish...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Bash, Windows PowerShell, Python, Windows, Linux, Cloud

The most amazing...

...project was working on a single-click deployment of a UAT environment built with IaC containing 15 systems with databases and an entire Kubernetes cluster.

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

2018 - PRESENT
Rapaport
  • Developed highly available infrastructures of containerized applications running on Kubernetes clusters.
  • Managed highly available, multi-stage AWS infrastructure.
  • Minimized costs while maintaining a resilient infrastructure.
  • Created custom-fitting solutions using scripting and automation tools.
  • Maintained Microsoft infrastructure services (AD, IIS, DNS, and GPO).
  • Optimized CI/CD processes which reduced costs and time by 35%.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Pipelines, Bash, AWS CloudFormation, Python, IIS, Kubernetes, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps

Linux System Engineer

2016 - 2017
Traiana
  • Maintained a large cloud and production infrastructure including integration and upgrade of HA clusters.
  • Managed the configuration of several services with Ansible and Puppet.
  • Integrated and maintained Cobbler, Consul, DCOS, Kubernetes, Spacewalk, and Packer Solution.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bash, Python, Packer, Red Hat SpaceWalk, Kubernetes, Consul, Cobbler, Windows, Linux, Puppet, Ansible, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps

DevOps Engineer

2015 - 2016
StorePower
  • Managed, troubleshot, and administered the AWS infrastructure.
  • Performed infrastructure provisioning for multiple environments using Ansible.
  • Deployed with zero downtime (rolling updates, Blue-Green) using Ansible.
  • Configured Nginx, Varnish, Magento, Postfix, and Solr using Ansible.
  • Designed and automated a high availability environment on AWS.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Linux, Solr, Postfix, Magento, Varnish, NGINX, Python, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps

Linux System Architect

2012 - 2015
8200 | IDF Intelligence Unit
  • Administrated an enterprise-scaled VMware infrastructure consisting of hundreds of ESX/i servers, and vSphere environment.
  • Administrated and troubleshot over 1,000 Linux servers.
  • Integrated cutting-edge technologies and problem-solving solutions.
  • Wrote advanced Bash scripts, RPM packages, and Puppet modules.
Technologies: Puppet, Bash, Elasticsearch, Vagrant, Jenkins, Gerrit, Docker, Python, Linux

One-click Deployment of an eCommerce Solution

I handled the one-click automatic deployment of a highly-available and resilient EC2 cluster (auto-scaling) per customer, included the complete isolation of resources (AWS VPC) that support both rolling upgrade and blue/green deployment methods. I achieved this by using AWS CLI scripting and Ansible configuration management.

Continuous-deployment Pipeline for a Microservices Cluster

I developed a complete out-of-the-box solution of a continuous-deployment pipeline that builds and deploys a secure, highly-available, and production-ready system based only on AWS resources (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, RDS, CloudFront, Secrets
Manager, ECS, Fargate, CloudWatch, ECR, S3, IAM, and VPC).

It is a single script run that executes three CloudFormation stacks that build an environment from scratch and two CF stacks that when invoked during pipeline activities creates and updates the cluster respectively.

Tools

AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Helm, Azure DevOps Services, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS ELB, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS IAM, Amazon CloudWatch, Git, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon EBS, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Packer, Varnish, Postfix, Solr, Gerrit, Vagrant, Puppet, Chef, GitHub, VirtualBox, NGINX, Jenkins

Paradigms

Azure DevOps, DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Automation, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Development (CD)

Platforms

Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Kubernetes, Windows, Docker, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, CentOS, Linux CentOS 7, Red Hat Linux, Windows 7, Linux RHEL/CentOS, Magento

Other

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Autoscaling, Linux Server Administration, Linux Servers, System Administration, Linux Administration, Windows System Administration, Cloud Infrastructure, Immutable Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, IIS, Rolling Deployment, Amazon API Gateway, AWS CodePipeline, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Virtualization, Containers, Containerization, Container Orchestration, Automation Tools, AWS DevOps, Amazon Route 53, Linux Server Configuration, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Monitoring, App Infrastructure, Server Infrastructure, Cloud, Pipelines, Cobbler, Consul, Red Hat SpaceWalk, Power Shell Commands, Continuous Monitoring, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR), IT Infrastructure

Languages

Python, Bash, YAML, Bash Script

Frameworks

Windows PowerShell, AWS HA

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, Jenkins Pipeline

2014 - 2017

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

College of Management Academic Studies - Rishon-Lezion, Israel

MAY 2014 - PRESENT

Linux Troubleshooting

HP

MARCH 2013 - PRESENT

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 5.1

HP

MARCH 2012 - PRESENT

Programming Course

Mamram IDF

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