Tamas Szasz, Developer in Târgu Mureș, Mureș County, Romania

Tamas Szasz

Software Developer

Location
Târgu Mureș, Mureș County, Romania
Toptal Member Since
December 4, 2017

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.

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Portfolio

FutureAdvisor Inc
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Fluentd, Amazon Kinesis, API Gateways, AWS Lambda...
Autoscout24 GmbH
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Paessler PRTG API, RHEL, TeamCity, Python, Ruby...
Elastoffice AG
Puppet, Web Host Manager (WHM), Odoo, Java, PHP, Python, Xen, KVM, Ubuntu

Location

Târgu Mureș, Mureș County, Romania

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Vim Text Editor, IntelliJ, CentOS, Ubuntu

The most amazing...

...fully automated infrastructure I’ve implemented was in AWS using multiple accounts and regions.

Work Experience

2015 - PRESENT

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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Fluentd, Amazon Kinesis, API Gateways, AWS Lambda, Packer, SaltStack, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon CloudFront CDN, NGINX, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CodeDeploy, ECS, Docker, Ruby, Python, Jenkins, MySQL
2013 - 2016

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.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Paessler PRTG API, RHEL, TeamCity, Python, Ruby, LAMP, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Puppet
2009 - 2013

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.
Technologies: Puppet, Web Host Manager (WHM), Odoo, Java, PHP, Python, Xen, KVM, Ubuntu

Experience

DevOps Consultant

Implemented complete environment using 5+ AWS accounts with a set of cloud formation stacks. All configuration was done by cloud formation or other custom scripts in ruby

DevOps Engineer

Contributed to different open source projects such as:
- 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, 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

2005 - 2009

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sicence

Sapientia University - Targu Mures, Romania

Certifications

MARCH 2017 - MARCH 2019

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services