DevOps Expert For a Migration to the Cloud
2020 - PRESENTMirion Technologies- Built a highly available, scalable Kubernetes cluster using AWS EKS, Cloud formation, Ansible, and GitHub Actions.
- Integrated monitoring and observability tools: Datadog, AWS Cloudwatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Developed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate the delivery infrastructure and application updates.
Technologies: Kubernetes, Ansible, GitHub, CI/CD Pipelines, Python 3, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS CloudFormation, Amazon EKS, DevOps, GitOps, Flux, Helm, AWS Lambda, Datadog, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Bash Script, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Continuous Integration (CI)Digital Products Director
2020 - 2021RedBerry- Built a recruitment pipeline. Attracted top-qualified talent and increased development capacity and output.
- Optimized the project management and software development process.
- Actively engaged with customers to guide their business through digital transformation.
- Grew the business in the international market.
- Built the DevOps team, providing managed DevOps using AWS/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, and Terraform.
Technologies: Leadership, Project Management, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Node.js, Python, PHP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Continuous Integration (CI)Machine Learning Engineer
2019 - 2020Open Water Development dba Speakeasy AI- Upgraded the project to the latest DeepSpeech release. Increased STT accuracy.
- Designed and upgraded the project for scale-out architecture and decreased response latency. Increased runtime stability.
- Migrated monolithic system to microservices architecture using Docker and Kubernetes on GKE.
- Added API calls from granular management of infrastructure and service.
Technologies: Python 3, Celery, MongoDB, Flask, TensorFlow, DeepSpeech, OpenAPI, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Kubernetes, Docker, Continuous Integration (CI)Lecturer
2013 - 2020Free University of Tbilisi- Taught an operating systems engineering course. Taught OS kernel and system programming using C, Pintos, Linux, and fuse.
- Taught a computer networking course. Built crucial internet protocol implementations HTTP, DNS, BitTorrent, and HTTP/SOCKS proxy.
- Served as a teaching assistant in machine learning and computer vision courses.
- Assessed student homework projects and exams. Gave feedback to students to excels in learning.
- Held seminars and practical workshops to demonstrate state of art approaches to diverse challenging technical problems.
Technologies: Linux, Socket Programming, Kernel, C, Python, Deep Learning, Machine LearningLead Software Engineer
2018 - 2019AnsiBlock- Developed a core system for a high-performance blockchain platform.
- Ported a digital signatures' checking algorithm to GPU/CUDA for parallel execution.
- Actively evolved in planning the solution architecture.
- Built and maintained a test network infrastructure in GCP using Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Built a trading algorithm using ML/RL as an offspring project.
- Developed a cluster monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.
Technologies: Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Google Compute Engine (GCE), CUDA, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), C++, C, Go, Blockchain, Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Continuous Integration (CI)Technology Consultant
2017 - 2018Aldagi- Researched the company's state, and helped build a strategy for technical development.
- Recruited AI/ML, DevOps, and software engineering talent to fulfill tech needs.
- Researched AI/ML state of art technologies for ongoing business needs. Helped with solution architectures.
Technologies: Linux, Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Continuous Integration (CI)Head of IT Infrastructure Management and Development Division
2010 - 2017National Agency of Public Registry- Headed IT infrastructure development for high availability, performance, and low TCO.
- Led IT infrastructure projects management and annual budget planning.
- Researched new, innovative technologies and solutions.
- Led infrastructure team of ten high qualified tech staff to plan and construction a new data center.
- Led team to plan and build open-source virtualization and software-defined storage running on multi-data center Linux clusters.
- Created solution architecture for custom-made object storage with improved access control and auditing.
- Created solution architecture to secure land titles on the bitcoin blockchain.
- Coached developer teams to better fit business solutions to technological challenges.
Technologies: DevOps, Blockchain, Storage, OpenStack, Cloud, Leadership, Project Management, GitLab CI/CD, Continuous Integration (CI), PuppetSystems Administrator
2006 - 2010Georgian Research and Educational Networking Assosiation- Provided web and mail hosting to educational organizations, including more than 2,300 Georgian schools.
- Secured data and services and monitored servers and network devices.
- Planned, built, and maintained web traffic filter for 2,300 Georgian schools.
- Managed grid computing See-Grid-Sci site installation, maintaining, monitoring.
- Established first LPI academy in Georgia.
- Taught CCNA and LPIC-1 course at local academy.
Technologies: Postfix, Apache, MySQL, Perl, Networking, Virtualization, Linux