Yaugen Drybin
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps and SRE Developer
Yaugen is a passionate DevOps expert with a degree in cybersecurity and expertise in designing, automating, integrating, and securing complex IT systems. He has worked from initial hardware installation and configuration to workload performance optimization and network security hardening. He designed a scalable cybersecurity application to process diverse data feeds, including security threat intelligence. Yaugen is known for creating fully customized solutions and passing security audits.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Elasticsearch, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Kubernetes, Networking
The most amazing...
...scalable and high available Elasticsearch cluster I've deployed had 100+ nodes configured via code with Terraform and Ansible that allows bearing peak loads.
Work Experience
CTO
Datakraft LLC
- Designed and implemented network and security services for distributed 2-sites datacenter and regional sites.
- Performed penetration tests of internet banking web applications and corporate websites; external penetration tests of the network perimeter. Planned and negotiated methodology with the customer; performed the penetration test; reported results to the customer.
- Developed and implemented networking statistics (sFlow) visualization solution capable of enriching ingested data with extra intelligence on the fly.
- Designed, developed, and implemented an access management solution capable of extracting specific fields from network traffic, enriching and storing data, and correlating and visualizing multiple events from different sources as a single chain of events.
- Designed, developed, and implemented scalable cybersecurity applications to collect, process, and store diverse data feeds, including security TI, logs, and network telemetry with log aggregation, network packet capture, and data indexing capabilities.
- Designed own security awareness platform used both as a training platform for customer’s employees and phishing framework during penetration tests.
SRE
Lightspeed
- Deployed, optimized, and supported a self-managed Elasticsearch cluster of 100+ data nodes. Provided reliable backup and restore solution that fits business-driven RTO and RPO.
- Designed and implemented business-driven SLI/SLO for cloud-based services.
- Performed security hardening of cloud-based services and bare metal servers to make it possible to pass multiple security audits.
Experience
Customized Network Flow Visualization Solution for Private Company
In-house App Access Management Solution for Private Company
Cyber Security Platform for Private Company
In-house Security Awareness Platform as a Service (PhishTrack)
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Technical Science
Belarusian State University - Minsk, Belarus
Master's Degree in Physics and Math
Belarusian State University - Minsk, Belarus
Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity
Belarusian State University - Minsk, Belarus
Certifications
Certified Ethical Hacker (Master)
EC Council
DELL EMC Technology Architect (VNX Solutions)
DELL EMC
DataCore Certified Implementation Engineer
DataCore
Skills
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, ELK (Elastic Stack), Apache Storm, Apache Solr, Apache NiFi
Platforms
Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Zeppelin
Paradigms
DevOps
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Storage
Elasticsearch, HDFS, Apache Hive, HBase
Frameworks
Spark
Languages
Python, Java
Other
Networking, Storage, Prometheus, Big Data, Security
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