Tenyo Grozev
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer
Tenyo is a developer with 7+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting applications in AWS and VMware, including the entire cycle: development, testing, CI, deployment, automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting. He also keeps a solid understanding of Linux, networking, storage, and databases from 15+ years of systems administration experience. Tenyo loves to learn new skills and enjoys solving complex technical problems.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Go
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is a self-service platform for quick and easy resource provisioning and managing resources in AWS.
Work Experience
Lead Cloud and DevOps Engineer
Yale University
- Developed and maintained the university's self-service platform for AWS cloud resources, including coding, reviewing pull requests, planning sprints, managing deployments, and monitoring the applications.
- Consulted, designed, and built various academic and research projects in AWS while collaborating with developers and stakeholders, writing Terraform configurations, setting up Jenkins deployment workflows, and monitoring.
- Set up an EKS cluster in AWS to explore migrating some of our existing microservices and wrote Helm charts for deploying them to Kubernetes.
- Managed several F5 BIG-IP load balancers used by hundreds of different applications.
Senior Linux System Engineer
Yale University
- Designed and introduced container environment and CI pipeline, using AWS, ECS, and Jenkins, while working with developers to Dockerize applications.
- Maintained Apache servers and Jenkins deployment pipeline for hundreds of Drupal, WordPress sites, and multiple Percona MySQL environments with replication.
- Managed and monitored hundreds of Linux servers running various core services, including IAM, Shibboleth, CAS, Jenkins, GitHub, Opsview, ActiveMQ, and multiple academic applications, such as Tomcat and JBoss.
- Created private Chef server and cookbook deployment pipeline to write and test cookbooks while executing migration from CFEngine 2 to Chef.
- Managed and upgraded VMware ESXi environment with nearly 50 hosts.
Experience
Yale University Self-service Platform
https://spinup.yalepages.org/Also, I wrote many of the back-end APIs in Go and Ruby while engaging in sprint planning, code reviewing, monitoring, related operational work, and front-end development, including Laravel and Vue.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Bridgeport - Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs
Tools
Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub, Chef, Apache Tomcat, Amazon EKS
Languages
Go
Platforms
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes
Paradigms
DevOps
Storage
MySQL
Frameworks
CFEngine
Other
Shell Scripting, CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud Architecture, Software Development, Agile Sprints, VMware ESXi
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