Michal Schott
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Developer
Michal is a technical professional with a passion for learning and over ten years of Linux experience, seven years of automation experience, and over four years of containers and Kubernetes expertise. His passion is to deliver high-quality solutions that matter.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Containers, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Linux, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've worked on is a Kubernetes project I built for the UK government department.
Work Experience
Lead WebOps Engineer
Kainos Software Poland
- Designed and delivered AWS and Kubernetes-based solution for one of the UK government departments (greenfield project).
- Managed work for a team of five operations engineers, using Jira for this purpose.
- Led internal training for junior operations engineers, which included delivering a 3-tier web application on AWS, using best DevOps practices.
DevOps Engineer
Schibsted
- Collaborated within a team of five, which delivered various projects.
- Completed different projects without any downtime or performance issues after moving from the US availability zones to the EU to reduce latencies.
- Designed and implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) and pipelines, as everything was set manually.
Infrastructure Engineer
Kainos
- Started as a junior engineer and got promoted over two years up to the senior position.
- Adapted to all the changing responsibilities on different projects, from MS SharePoint and AD support to designing and developing infrastructure and various development processes, including CI/CD. Mostly worked on the UK government projects.
- Developed in an Agile environment, which was usually a mix of the regular Scrum with few Kanban elements.
Experience
Open Source Contributions
The level of contribution differs for each project, but I believe that using OSS, it is my duty to contribute as much as I can and give something back to the community.
Skills
Tools
Git, Terraform, Amazon EKS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Puppet, Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, TeamCity, Vagrant
Paradigms
Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps
Platforms
Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), LAMP, WordPress
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Ceph, AWS SWF
Other
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Containers, System Administration, Linux Administration, Architecture, Security, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Monitoring, Coaching
Languages
Go
Education
Master's Degree in IT Systems and Networks
Technical University of Gdansk - Gdansk, Poland
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
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