Ioseb Kuprashvili
Verified Expert in Engineering
Systems Architect and Developer
Tbilisi, Georgia
Toptal member since December 15, 2021
Ioseb is a systems architect with a proven track record of designing and delivering cost-effective, reliable, secure, and high-performance IT infrastructures to solve complex business problems. He is a CKA certified Kubernetes expert able to design, build, and maintain clusters on bare-metal infrastructure and cloud. Ioseb is also well-versed in planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining system applications in the AWS cloud.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Kubernetes, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on included architecting, planning, deploying, and maintaining a Kubernetes cluster on a bare-metal infrastructure with a DR cluster on AWS.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
Project Circle LTD
- Optimized a genomics pipeline, reducing execution time by 50% and cost by 2x. Used Prometheus metrics to assess and optimize CPU/GPU instances for each step of the pipeline, resulting in significant improvements in efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
- Migrated a Nextflow pipeline to AWS Genomics CLI, optimized computational tasks for performance, and provisioned infrastructure. Demonstrated proficiency in cloud computing and workflow management.
- Improved the efficiency of genomics workflows by implementing a solution that externalizes the execution of predefined tasks. Created a framework that supports the required functionality, leading to optimized task execution.
- Leveraged Terraform to automate infrastructure deployments. Created Terraform modules for AWS services, implemented IaC best practices, and integrated with CI/CD. This enabled faster and more reliable infrastructure changes.
Systems Architect and DevOps
Leader-Bet
- Owned the architectural design, development, and deployment of the company's systems as a systems architect. Defined system solutions based on the company's need, cost, and required integration with existing applications and systems.
- Researched, identified, selected, and tested technology products required for solution delivery, and established, implemented, and documented the technology integration and migration strategies.
- Built a Kubernetes cluster on bare metal with controllers and etcd on an HA configuration. Automated certificate generation and rotation on master and worker nodes and a node provisioning process.
- Provisioned a complementary infrastructure for Kubernetes: local image registry for image storage, GlusterFS for distributed file storage, and Elastic Stack for centralized logging.
- Planned, tested, and moved part of the company's DR site to AWS. Set up the networking infrastructure from the primary site to AWS DR with VPNs and BGP route propagation.
- Delivered EKS on AWS and moved workloads running on the primary cluster to AWS Kubernetes.
- Set up AWS IAM users, groups, and policies. Provisioned EC2 instances with and without autoscaling and load balancers. Delivered RDS databases,. ElastiCache, and other AWS products.
Systems and Network Engineer
Leader-Bet
- Owned the evaluation of the company's infrastructure needs and then chose, tested, and implemented solutions as a system and network engineer. I also proactively ensured the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
- Planned disaster recovery site architecture and documented the process of building, testing, and migrating workloads from primary DC to DR in case of emergency.
- Built a Zabbix cluster for monitoring and alerting. Added the majority of the infrastructure to Zabbix monitoring. Created custom scripts and dashboards where preconfigured templates were not enough.
- Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on tasks.
- Maintained security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
Network Engineer
Leader-Bet
- Assessed the needs of a company's networking infrastructure and recommended, tested, and implemented solutions from Cisco, Juniper, MikroTik, VMware, and open-source alternatives as a network engineer.
- Performed daily network monitoring, maintenance, and technical support for internal and external networks.
- Redesigned a portion of the company's networking infrastructure using a top-down design approach, resulting in improved performance and customer satisfaction.
- Designed and implemented a DDoS mitigation solution utilizing open-source solutions, resulting in significant savings for the organization.
Experience
Kubernetes on Bare Metal
Automation of Infrastructure Provisioning
I automated the entire process, from virtual machine deployment to configuring essential packages and parameters based on the preset architecture.
The new approach reduced the provisioning time to 30 minutes.
DR Move to Cloud
Certifications
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
HashiCorp
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
Cisco
Cisco Certified Networking Professional (CCNP)
Cisco
Skills
Libraries/APIs
ConfigMap
Tools
Iptables, AWS IAM, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), AWS ELB, Zabbix, ELK (Elastic Stack), Fluentd, Terraform, Logging, VPN, AWS Batch, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS CLI, Grafana, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, AWS Fargate, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Ansible, Git, GitHub, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Jenkins, Istio, Jira, AWS Step Functions, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager
Paradigms
Automation, DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Platforms
Kubernetes, Linux, Amazon EC2, AWS ALB, AWS NLB, Linux CentOS 7, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Docker, KVM, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Native
Languages
Bash, Python, SQL
Frameworks
AWS HA
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS Elastic File System, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Other
Networking, System Architecture, AWS Auto Scaling, Amazon Route 53, IP Routing, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Campus Network, Prometheus, Containers, Container Orchestration, Containerization, AWS Cloud Architecture, Firewalls, Nftables, DevOps Engineer, Kube-router, Virtualization, VMware ESXi, Data Analysis, ECS, Amazon RDS, AWS CodePipeline, Argo CD, CI/CD Pipelines, Applications, Orchestration, Software Development, AWS Secrets Manager, Deployment, Pipelines, AWS Config, Multi-AZ deployments, Failover Solutions, Immutable Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR), Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
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