Tamas Szasz
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Tamas enjoys working as a DevOps engineer to solve various problems for enterprise companies. As an infrastructure automation enthusiast, he focuses on secure, scalable deployments and environment bootstrapping.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Vim Text Editor, IntelliJ IDEA, CentOS, Ubuntu
The most amazing...
...fully automated infrastructure I’ve implemented was in AWS using multiple accounts and regions.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps and Cloud Architect Consultant
FutureAdvisor Inc
- Designed processes around deployment and infrastructure setup in AWS.
- Implemented tools to maintain infrastructure such as back up, AMI creation, cleanup tools, and alerting.
- Completed pipeline setup for release processes in Jenkins.
- Optimized costs on AWS by introducing different dynamic mechanisms like autoscaling, serverless architecture.
- Set up monitoring using various tools including Cloudwatch, Librato, Instana, and Sumo logic.
- Established logging aggregation to collect logs from different places and layers, like application logs, docker logs, linux logs, cloudtrail, S3, cloudfront, ELB, etc. Aggregation happens in sumologic, the pipe uses: Fluentd, Kinesis stream, Lambda to process all logs to sumo logic.
Systems & Database Engineer
Autoscout24 GmbH
- Maintained and improved MySQL and Elasticsearch clusters.
- Extended puppet modules to automate infrastructure.
- Handled deployment problems of PHP, .NET, and other applications.
- Contributed to design and implementation of new infrastructure in AWS.
- Designed a complex authentication mechanism with IAM in cross account and for on-premise servers.
- Implemented a self healing and autoscaled Elasticsearch cluster in AWS.
System Administrator
Elastoffice AG
- Maintained the infrastructure of multiple servers and environments.
- Configured bare metal servers with Xen and KVM virtualization.
- Built a puppet environment for the server configuration.
- Implemented different tools in Python for deployment process and database backup/restore.
Experience
DevOps Consultant
DevOps Engineer
- puppet modules
- chef cookbooks
- saltstack code
- terraform provider
Skills
Tools
Chef, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, SaltStack, Puppet, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, GitHub, Git, Boto 3, Solr, AWS CodeDeploy, IntelliJ IDEA, Vim Text Editor, Odoo, TeamCity, NGINX, Packer, Fluentd, AWS ELB, Amazon EBS, AWS IAM, Docker Compose, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Capistrano, Bitbucket
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI)
Platforms
AWS Lambda, CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Percona, MacOS, KVM, Xen, LAMP, Kubernetes, Apache2, AWS IoT
Storage
Elasticsearch, MariaDB, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, DRBD, Amazon EFS
Other
Autoscaling Groups, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon API Gateway, Web Host Manager (WHM), RHEL, ECS, API Gateways, Amazon Route 53, Network Monitoring, HAProxy, Amazon Kinesis
Languages
Bash, Python, SQL, PHP, Ruby, Java, Groovy, Go
Libraries/APIs
Amazon EC2 API, Paessler PRTG API
Frameworks
Sinatra, Django, Web2py
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sicence
Sapientia University - Targu Mures, Romania
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
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