Stepan Birukov
Verified Expert in Engineering
AWS Developer
Odessa, Ukraine
Toptal member since May 23, 2022
Stepan is a site reliability engineer focusing on Linux automation, open source, and security. He has 7+ years of experience managing mission-critical Linux−based server clusters and network equipment. As an operations engineer, Stepan excels in Unix−based server platforms, internal Linux−based operation systems, Linux kernel, AWS services, and Google Cloud Platform.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 9 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 7 years
- DevOps - 7 years
- Ansible - 7 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- Google Cloud - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Kubernetes, Open Source
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a set of tools to deploy complex cluster applications, allowing the business to scale correctly in many senses.
Work Experience
Operations Engineer
Gemini Advisory
- Developed a Kubernetes infrastructure based on business needs.
- Migrated the previously deployed services to the new Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Improved the DevOps pipeline for faster development and release.
Operations Engineer
Provectus
- Developed the deployment tools based on Ansible and Jenkins for complex JBoss-based web applications.
- Implemented a self-hosted fault-tolerant load balancer solution.
- Played a key role in migrating extensive infrastructure from on-premise installation to AWS cloud (over 1,000 hosts).
- Implemented ModSecurity to harden web traffic protection for customers.
Operations Engineer
RingCentral
- Covered the existing infrastructure with Ansible playbooks and reorganized the security updates process based on mentioned playbooks.
- Updated and supported the production and development environments continuously.
- Contributed to miscellaneous projects by designing and implementing the CI process.
Network Operations
Farlep-Invest (Vega Telecommunications Group)
- Architected and supported mission-critical ISP services, including DNS, DHCP, and BRAS.
- Provided support for hardware servers and miscellaneous equipment.
- Optimized and supported network equipment, including ISP and MAN.
Experience
GitHub Blog
https://stepan111.github.io/Load Balancing Solution
Deployment Framework for Oracle Cluster in AWS
Automated Application Delivery with GitOps
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Networking
Odessa National Telecommunications Academy - Odessa, Ukraine
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
CNCF
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF
CloudBees Jenkins Engineer
CloudBees
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
OpenID, Jenkins Pipeline, Jenkins Job DSL
Tools
Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, NGINX, Envoy Proxy, Vault, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), GitLab CI/CD, Grafana, Kibana
Paradigms
DevOps
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, Unix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Harbor, Apache Kafka, JBoss
Storage
Google Cloud, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL
Languages
Go, Python
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, GitOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Open Source, Networks, DNS, ModSecurity, Flux CD, Single Sign-on (SSO), Shift-left Security, Prometheus, Beats, VXLAN
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