Luke Pullicino
Verified Expert in Engineering
Prometheus Developer
Recently, Luke has been working as a site reliability engineer and is extremely comfortable using tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker to deploy and manage containerized apps and microservices. He also has expertise in traditional virtual private servers (VPS), including WordPress LEMP stacks.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
GitLab, Jira, Slack, MacOS, Linux
The most amazing...
...thing I've done was finishing, in a few weeks, a consolidation project of over 50 servers hosted on different providers.
Work Experience
Site Reliability Engineer
Catena Media
- Setup over 150 CI/CD pipeline jobs on Jenkins which were required to push code into testing and production environments.
- Helped in the decommissioning of the old monitoring system (Zabbix) and was involved in setting up a newer one (Prometheus, Grafana) from scratch that monitors the whole infrastructure.
- Supported the migration from a legacy infrastructure type to Kubernetes.
- Automated daily tasks through the use of Ansible and Jenkins.
- Prepared documentation for all services that the SRE team rolled out.
- Migrated microservices from a legacy infrastructure type to AWS.
System Administrator
Catena Media
- Assisted developers with any of their issues such as server configurations and failed deployments.
- Planned and set up new servers both for testing and production use.
- Maintained and improved the Jenkins CI/CD infrastructure.
- Served as the first line of support and dealt directly with issues concerning the infrastructure and hosting.
- Managed over 5,000 domains including DNS over multiple registrars.
NOC Technician
BMIT
- Handled clients' setups which included hardware racking and initial setup.
- Contributed to the migration of a small data center to another location which included over 50 racks.
- Troubleshot, configured, and replaced network devices such as switches, firewalls, and replacements for failed hardware components.
Experience
Catena Media Server Consolidation Project
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Networks
MCAST – The Malta College of Arts, Science, and Technology - Paola, Malta
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js
Tools
Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, GitLab, NGINX, Slack, Jira, Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, ELK (Elastic Stack), Apache HTTP Server, Varnish, GitLab CI/CD, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Paradigms
DevOps, Microservices
Platforms
Amazon EC2, Ubuntu, WordPress, Kubernetes, LEMP, Docker, MacOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux
Languages
Bash, PHP
Storage
MySQL, Redis, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
Prometheus, Cloudflare, DNS, Cisco
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