Vladimir Babchynskyy
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Toptal member since July 12, 2016
Vlad is a cloud architect and skilled SRE with hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing scalable, resilient cloud infrastructures on AWS, Azure, and GCP. He is an expert in using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform to automate cloud deployments, ensuring high availability and performance for complex, distributed applications. Vlad translates business requirements into cloud solutions with operational excellence and best practices in security and cost efficiency.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 15 years
- DevOps - 9 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 9 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- Python - 5 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- Kubernetes - 5 years
- Ansible - 5 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD Pipelines, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed and implemented is a phonetic search algorithm for Ukrainian and Russian languages, similar to the well-known Metaphone.
Work Experience
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Electronic Arts
- Supported, monitored, and troubleshot the world's largest gaming platform.
- Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab.
- Architected and developed platform solutions for web and gaming teams.
- Managed infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation in multiple AWS accounts across different regions.
- Managed Kubernetes clusters for various Go, Node.js, Java, and Python web services.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Softserve, Inc.
- Implemented a migration to Azure Project for a client.
- Secured the AWS environment for another client using best security practices.
- Developed CI/CD processes for various clients using a wide range of tools.
- Developed deployment lifecycle process automation.
- Created backups, monitoring, and maintenance using modern tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and third-party providers like Datadog or New Relic.
Head of Key IT Systems Support Unit
AXA Insurance
- Managed international service delivery and support teams.
- Managed local server infrastructure.
- Improved, deployed, and supported a backoffice insurance system (ITN "Cleva").
- Implemented, improved, and supported an integration platform (Mule ESB).
- Developed process automation.
- Migrated data between front-end, back-end, and accounting systems project delivery.
- Contributed to a digitalization project (online and mobile applications customer service improvement), a data quality project, an operation migration project (contract accounting system), and a product factory project (implementation of quick insurance product delivery in the backoffice system).
Information Technology Officer
Autocentre Media Group
- Supported the 5th top Ukrainian website autobazar.ua.
- Supported infrastructure, planned capacity, and benchmarked milestones.
- Implemented a distributed backup project for all holding affiliates.
- Led the IT department of the managing company of the holding.
- Delivered IT strategy within the bounds of the holding, control over information flows, and control over the use of network resources.
- Contributed SLA, service desk, and providing uninterrupted functioning of servers, PCs, and local area and phone networks.
- Adopted software products.
- Created and integrated the backup system and recovery procedures.
- Licensed software.
- Provided network security projects, including encryption, antivirus, and DLP.
Head of IT Support Unit
Ukrainian Financial Network
- Created the department from zero.
- Set, tuned, and accompanied the system for authorizing and processing payment cards.
- Developed complex policy for IT security on the basis of standards of ISO/ES and requirements from Visa and MasterCard companies.
Experience
CI/CO Process
ROLE
- Identify and translate requirements into technology architecture
- Choose technologies for implementation of delivery pipeline
- Code, test, and debug technical solutions in compliance with the defined engineering standards
- Coach and mentor other team members
- Track code quality of application/reusable components
AWS Website Security
ROLE
- Implement follow-ups after security audit
- Choose right configuration for securing database and back-end services
- Code, test, and implement solution in compliance with the requested security standards
- Migrate production servers to secured area inside AWS
- Implement process for deploying code into a secured area
Backoffice Platform
ROLE
- Implement, improve, and support the integration platform (Mule ESB)
- Manage international service delivery and support teams
- Manage cloud-based server infrastructure
- Develop process automation
- Deploy to AWS cloud
- Migrate data between front-end, back-end, and accounting systems in a multi-datacenter environment
- Deliver micro projects
Backoffice Platform Migration
ROLE
- Migrate Java applications and Oracle databases from Solaris platform to cloud-based Linux solution for cost saving along with performance improvements
- Define acceptance criteria and the definition of "done"
- Provide migration plan and schedule.
- Prepare and migrate the platform
- Provide support
Mass Media and eCommerce Site
ROLE
- Implement distributed backup project for all holding affiliates.
- Deliver an IT strategy within the bounds of holding, control over information flows, and control over the use of network resources (SLA, Service Desk, uninterrupted functioning of servers, PCs, local area networks)
- Adopte software products
- Create and integrate the backup system and recovery procedures, including licensing.
- Provide the network security project, from encryption and antivirus to DLP
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Linguistics
Odessa National University - Odessa, Ukraine
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, React
Tools
Packer, Apache Maven, VPN, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, GitLab, Vagrant, TFS, Jenkins, Git, NGINX, Grafana, Amazon EKS, Docker Hub, GitLab CI/CD, AWS IAM, GitHub, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Observability Tools, Amazon CloudWatch, TeamCity, Travis CI, Ansible, Apache, Hashistack, HashiCorp, Bitbucket, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Istio, ITerm, Nagios, Zabbix, Hyper-V, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD), Continuous Delivery (CD), Best Practices, Secure Code Best Practices, Microservices, Serverless Architecture, DevSecOps
Platforms
Docker, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Red Hat Linux, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Amazon EC2, Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, Drone CI, AWS Lambda, Unix, Azure, Apache Kafka, Oracle, Heroku
Storage
Cloud Deployment, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Google Cloud Storage, Amazon Aurora, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Datadog, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL
Languages
Ruby, Python, Bash
Frameworks
Ant Design, Windows PowerShell
Other
Release Management, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps, Cloud Architecture, Backups, DNS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Amazon RDS, Linux Server Administration, Cloud, Containerization, Orchestration, Cloudflare, VMware ESXi, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), API Gateways, Consulting, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Networking, Security, IT Security, APIs, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Architecture, Solution Architecture
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