Pavel Zelensky
Verified Expert in Engineering
Networking Developer
Pavel is a self-driven professional with more than 15 years of experience who wants to make more outstanding contributions and enjoy the involvement and results of his work. He has a comprehensive background in building and managing cloud and on-premise IT infrastructures. Pavel also has a broad view of different aspects of IT, including planning, automating, and implementing deployments for various applications and creating infrastructure as a code using different toolsets.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, GoLand, iTerm2, PyCharm, Slack
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is IT infrastructure for a new bank in 2007. Five years later, this customer insisted on assigning me as an architect to their next project.
Work Experience
Platform Team Lead
Paxful
- Brough Kubernetes culture to the company. Assisted engineering teams in developing Kubernetes native applications.
- Automated different processes to improve time to market for new services with Kubernetes operators and plenty of Terraform code.
- Trained the team. For this, I've spent hours preparing workshops and demos for knowledge-sharing sessions.
Cloud Infrastructure Owner
Vivid Money
- Developed and built AWS base infrastructure from scratch.
- Implemented all the tooling needed for developers.
- Integrated a monitoring and notification system based on Prom and VM and PD.
SaaSOps Chief Architect
Aurea
- Enforced the change management process for products I've been in charge of.
- Migrated products to Kubernetes from Docker containers running on servers. The main goal achieved was an increased product availability level.
- Dockerized the products. It was a challenging task to migrate applications as-is to Docker containers.
- Implemented different initiatives related to cost optimization for existing products.
SaaSOps SME
Aurea
- Developed automated deployments for some products and performed migration to Kubernetes for them.
- Decreased time-to-solve for different reoccurring issues by implementing automation, helping to resolve them.
- Developed solutions for issues due to Docker bugs that save a lot of time and help avoid outages.
- Insisted on starting data migration for one of the supported products. It helped us retain big customers.
- Became a top performer, still having time to help other team members when they were facing issues.
DevOps Engineer
Aurea
- Improved support level to match SLA for products.
- Developed different automations to be used for shortening downtime during MWs.
- Started to act as a mentor for other team members;
Cloud Infrastructure Architect | Team Lead
Jet Info Systems International
- Created several cloud-based DR sites for customer's infrastructure;
- Built different solutions leveraging cloud infrastructures such as capacity on-demand, traffic localization, core enterprise infrastructure, and elastic infrastructure for enterprise solutions.
- Planned and implemented migration to cloud-based VDC for customer's infrastructure.
- Implemented several projects building distributed datacenters with no SPOF followed by migration for all customers systems into it.
- Performed load testing and PoC for software-defined storage.
- Conducted DC preparation for the achievement of the Certified SAP Hosting Provider status.
Solution Designer
Jet Info Systems International
- Developed and implemented server infrastructure, network, and SAN for Tinkoff Bank, which started its operations in March 2007.
- Acted as a solution designer on the first complex project for the company that involved different company departments.
- Got promoted pretty fast to a new role because of my outstanding contributions.
Operations Manager
Yandex
- Implemented task and incident management according to ITSM. Implemented CMDB.
- Introduced a solution for managing an engineering team that consisted of stakeholders who were founders of the company.
- Got to the decision that it's not the company I want to work for.
Operations Manager
IBS
- Established datacenter operations according to ITSM methodology.
- Implemented incident and task management based on SupportWizard software solution. .
- Implemented alert and monitoring system based on SiteScope software solution, now HPE SiteScope.
- Brought to production a new facility for the data center.
Systems Administrator
IBS
- Developed various automations to improve SLA for services.
- Engineered new services to be provisioned for customers in SaaS mode.
- Improved monitoring system implementing modules for custom monitors.
Experience
Cloud Infrastructure for a Mobile Banking App
http://vivid.moneyEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Moscow State University of Electronic Technologies - Moscow, Russia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Apache Lucene
Tools
Istio, Terraform, Ansible, GoLand, PyCharm, Slack, Apache Solr, Puppet, GitLab CI/CD, Chef, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), Oracle VM Manager, Hyper-V, VMware, Dell EMC, Veritas Cluster Server, Jira, Microsoft Word, Sendmail, Postfix, Cluster
Platforms
Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Apache Kafka, MacOS, Azure, OpenStack, Solaris, OpenShift, Citrix, FreeBSD
Storage
Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Ceph, GlusterFS, NetApp, Veritas Volume Manager
Languages
Python, Go
Frameworks
Hadoop
Other
Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Networking, Containers, Telecom Business Support Systems (BSS), iTerm2, VSAN Technology, HDS, NetBackup, SAN Brocade, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Cisco, Servers, SAN Switches, Storage, IT Projects, Qmail, Computer Networking, Hardware
How to Work with Toptal
Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.
Share your needs
Choose your talent
Start your risk-free talent trial
Top talent is in high demand.
Start hiring