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DevOps Engineer and Developer
Location
Thessaloniki, Greece
Toptal Member Since
July 15, 2020
Nikos is a DevOps engineer and infrastructure designer with several years of hands-on experience, which includes building a high-traffic platform with at least 7 million users. On that project, the whole infrastructure was horizontally scaled based on the load and traffic. The challenge there had to do with the size of traffic—specifically auditing and logging—due to the size of logs, etc. were much larger than usual. It's safe to say whatever your DevOps needs are, Nikos can handle them.
Portfolio
Schoox Inc
Amazon Web Services (AWS), PHP, Kubernetes, Python, Amazon EBS...
Datajolt Limited
Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Flask, Kubernetes, Scaling, AWS ALB...
NebulOS, Inc.
Linux, Ubuntu, OpenStack, Data Centers, Ceph, Bash
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Firefox, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Bash, Linux
The most amazing...
...project was making a scalable way to restore all files in 2 hours without service interruption after an accidental deletion of 20 million files in S3 storage.
Work Experience
Director of DevOps
2018 - PRESENT
Schoox Inc
- Created a new secure network within the cloud infrastructure and helped the company archive security certifications to take on new and more significant customers.
- Designed and enabled a monitoring-and-audit platform that helped the support department to answer customer's questions more confidently.
- Transformed the build and deploy procedure. Previously, the company used git pull as the deployment method, which caused HTTP errors; now, the node's upgrades happen without traffic and with zero HTTP errors.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), PHP, Kubernetes, Python, Amazon EBS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon EC2, Bash, Ansible, Amazon ElastiCache, Docker, Jenkins, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Continuous Delivery (CD), MongoDB, AWS CloudFormation, Linux, Firefox, SAML, AWS ELB, AWS CLI, Terraform, OpenVPN, Amazon EKS, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Continuous Integration (CI), Helm, Cloud, System Administration
DevOps Engineer
2023 - 2023
Datajolt Limited
- Solved a problem in EKS deployments with network issues on an AWS Application Load Balancer as an ingress resource.
- Suggested a better way to keep logs for the application that was distributed and deployed in the EKS cluster. Listened to the company's needs and suggested two to three solutions based on the budget.
- Checked the existing security state of the infrastructure and evaluated data access based on how they gave me access to the AWS account.
Technologies: Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Flask, Kubernetes, Scaling, AWS ALB, Gunicorn, Terraform, Bash, Docker, AWS ELB, AWS CLI, Helm, Cloud
Senior DevOps Engineer
2021 - 2022
NebulOS, Inc.
- Solved problems in a Ceph cluster with node outages. The cluster was unstable, and all writes were disabled, so it was re-balanced.
- Added four new nodes in the existing cluster and updated the OpenStack to a newer version. Set up new virtual networks and started to work with new clients on this cluster. Created the new OpenStack images for windows and provisioned them.
- Supported the existing Oracle VM cluster with other technical members during US off-work hours.
Technologies: Linux, Ubuntu, OpenStack, Data Centers, Ceph, Bash
DevOps Engineer
2021 - 2021
Piggy, LLC
- Changed, working as a developer focused on security, the application's access to AWS from static keys to IAM roles.
- Designed and wrote Lambda function to rotate the credentials of RDS databases automatically.
- Reviewed and fixed the security groups and the access to infrastructure.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines, Automation, Amazon RDS, Bash, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS CLI, Continuous Integration (CI), Cloud
DevOps AWS Engineer
2021 - 2021
ZYP.ONE GmbH
- Designed and created the entire environment (production, staging, and testing) with Terraform and created networking with OpenVPN to access the environment without the need to enable public access.
- Migrated the database to RDS, configured database backups, and unique dump exports to S3 with an ECS service.
- Installed and configured the Jenkins CI/CD system with a master node and dynamic slave nodes.
- Improved the automated pipeline to work better with CI and prepared the CD portion for testing and staging environments.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Docker, VPN, Networks, Jenkins, GitHub, AWS Batch, Bash, Linux, AWS CLI, Continuous Integration (CI), Cloud
Software Developer | Oracle Database Specialist | Infrastructure Architect
2005 - 2018
Logismos SA
- Deployed OpenStack as a private cloud solution for the company.
- Converted storage to be more central with Ceph and with the added benefit that maintenance could happen without interruption to services.
- Designed and implemented an integration service between two systems in near real-time between multi-sites in different countries worldwide.
- Installed and configured an Oracle database with a standby service and automatic backup without interruptions for two different hosts.
Technologies: Ceph, Oracle, OpenStack, Bash, Ansible, Python, Linux, Java, SAML, OpenVPN, System Administration
Experience
Recovery of 20 Million Deleted Files in Amazon S3 Buckets
After an accident, a process started to delete files from two buckets rapidly. The buckets had versioning enabled but we needed to start a flow to recover the data. To solve this, I created a mechanism with a queue and Lambdas that found the files and restored them (i.e., deleting the deletion mark).
Worker Daemon in Python
A Python application to work as a Linux daemon to consume messages from Amazon SQS queues and execute them in a PHP environment. The daemon use metrics posts to an Amazon CloudWatch metrics service and keen audit logs in Amazon S3.
Scalable Logging Parser
With the ELK stack, I used a scalable way with queues to parse files in Amazon S3 Storage and populate data in an Elasticsearch cluster for auditing. The parsing happens in a Kubernetes cluster and uses S3 events and queues to make parsing asynchronous.
SSO Authentication with All Internal Services
A startup, due to an increase in its employee numbers, decided to enable a user repository with Okta. I designed and implemented the authentication, authorization, and internal portals with Okta (SAML and OpenID). The internal services include the AWS console, CLI, and all Dockerized/Kubernetes applications like schedulers and logging tools like Elasticsearch.
SOC2 Certification
I was a member of the team that passes the SOC2 audit and pass for a company.
This team involved the reports and procedures to keep any security aspects and be tracked to audit trails. Finally, we apply any changes requested by the audit team.
This team involved the reports and procedures to keep any security aspects and be tracked to audit trails. Finally, we apply any changes requested by the audit team.
Skills
Frameworks
AWS HA, Flask
Tools
Amazon EBS, AWS ELB, AWS CLI, Terraform, Amazon ElastiCache, Ansible, Helm, Amazon EKS, OpenVPN, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Jenkins, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS Batch, AWS CloudFormation, VPN, GitHub, Amazon CloudWatch, ELK (Elastic Stack)
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), DevSecOps, Automation
Platforms
Amazon EC2, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Linux, Firefox, Oracle, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), AWS ALB, Ubuntu, AWS Lambda
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Ceph, MongoDB, Data Centers
Languages
Python, Bash, PHP, Java, SAML
Other
Amazon Route 53, System Administration, Electronics, Microcontrollers, Circuit Design, Okta, Single Sign-on (SSO), Security, Cloud, Networks, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, Scaling, Gunicorn
Libraries/APIs
OpenID
Education
1998 - 2004
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics
Technical University - Thessaloniki, Greece
Certifications
SEPTEMBER 2019 - SEPTEMBER 2022
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator — Associate
AWS
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