Michal Schott, Developer in Gdańsk, Poland
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Michal Schott

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Bio

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

Kainos Software Poland
AWS, Docker, Ansible, Puppet, Linux, Monitoring, Site Reliability...
Schibsted
AWS, Site Reliability, WordPress Development, Linux, Terraform, Git
Kainos
AWS, Docker, Vagrant, Teamcity, Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Puppet, Linux, Terraform...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

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

2017 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: AWS, Docker, Ansible, Puppet, Linux, Monitoring, Site Reliability, Agile Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Development, Coaching, Security, Architecture, Containers, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes

DevOps Engineer

2017 - 2017
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.
Technologies: AWS, Site Reliability, WordPress Development, Linux, Terraform, Git

Infrastructure Engineer

2013 - 2017
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.
Technologies: AWS, Docker, Vagrant, Teamcity, Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Puppet, Linux, Terraform, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Development

Open Source Contributions

I contributed to various open-source projects such as Terraform AWS provider (terraform-provider-aws), Kubernetes operations (Kops), K8s Spot rescheduler, Kubernetes Reboot Daemon (kured), Kustomize, and Linkerd2.

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.
2006 - 2012

Master's Degree in IT Systems and Networks

Technical University of Gdansk - Gdansk, Poland

DECEMBER 2021 - DECEMBER 2024

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

OCTOBER 2019 - OCTOBER 2022

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

Tools

Git, Terraform, Amazon EKS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Puppet, Ansible, Git, Jenkins, Teamcity, Vagrant

Paradigms

Agile Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Development, DevOps

Platforms

Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, AWS, Cloud Engineering, LAMP, WordPress Development

Storage

Amazon S3, Ceph, Amazon API

Languages

Go

Other

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Containers, System Administration, Linux Administration, Architecture, Security, Site Reliability, Monitoring, Coaching

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