Yevhenii Kurasov
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Orlando, FL, United States
Toptal member since December 23, 2024
Yevhenii is a software, platform, and site reliability engineer with expertise in DevOps and a deeper knowledge of cloud-native technologies. He specializes in running applications in Kubernetes environments and has experience in AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) providers. Yevhenii will be a great addition to any team.
Portfolio
Experience
- Programming - 12 years
- Symfony - 8 years
- Kubernetes - 8 years
- PostgreSQL - 6 years
- Terraform - 6 years
- GitHub Actions - 5 years
- OpenTelemetry - 2 years
- Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaler (KEDA) - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Slack, MacOS, JetBrains
The most amazing...
...thing I've done involved enhancing uptime from 80% to 99.6% over a few weeks for Inzpire.me, a renowned Norwegian product for influencer marketing.
Work Experience
Senior SRE and DevOps Engineer
Finsight
- Optimized CI pipelines as a DevOps specialist, reducing code by 80% and accelerating application image builds by 60%.
- Implemented OpenTelemetry within the company by setting up and configuring the back end with Tempo, Honeycomb, and the OpenTelemetry agent, and integrating the SDK and auto-instrumentation, resulting in a fivefold increase in development speed.
- Migrated the application to AWS, transferring over 3TB of files to AWS S3, 0.5TB of the file system, and over 100GB of databases. This transition enhanced the application's stability and scalability.
- Integrated Sentry into the system, established a workflow for its use, and implemented it at every stage, resulting in a 50% reduction in errors reaching clients.
Senior DevOps Developer
Inzpire.me
- Enhanced the CD process by accelerating releases eight times, facilitating quicker feature rollouts, and enabling more agile responses to market demands.
- Stabilized the application, increasing its uptime from 80% to 99.6% within a few weeks.
- Developed an application for interacting with various APIs and became one of the first in the world to work with Instagram Reels API.
Senior Web Developer
Rentberry
- Created a component that generates statistics based on historical housing search queries. The data was processed and analyzed to provide insights, resulting in a twofold increase in traffic from search services.
- Developed a module for searching listings based on geolocation, implementing clustering of results. The module also included features for filtering and sorting the listings, enhancing user experience and relevance.
- Optimized the database's processing and storage of listings by implementing a caching mechanism and a switch between geolocation providers, significantly reducing costs and improving efficiency.
- Developed a local build process for the project using containers, ensuring consistent and efficient environments for development and testing.
Experience
Application for Collecting Statistics via Instagram API
The tool specifically tracked changes in reach and impressions over time, providing valuable insights into post performance within specific categories. This allowed for measuring influencer effectiveness, particularly in niche categories such as tourism. By analyzing these metrics, the system helped determine whether an influencer was suitable for marketing campaigns in targeted industries, assisting brands in making data-driven decisions.
The application was designed for scalability and high availability. It runs in Kubernetes to handle large volumes of real-time data and ensure fast data retrieval for timely marketing decisions.
Education
Master's Degree in Information Technology
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics - Kharkiv, Ukraine
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Instagram API, YouTube API, Google Maps API
Tools
Terraform, AWS IAM, Docker Compose, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon EKS, AWS CloudFormation, Sentry, Grafana, RabbitMQ, Helm, Git, Slack, JetBrains, MongoDB Atlas, Jenkins, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon CloudFront CDN
Languages
PHP 8, PHP 7, PHP, TypeScript, SQL, Bash, JavaScript, Go, Bash Script
Frameworks
Symfony, Next.js, Laravel
Paradigms
DevOps
Platforms
Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, MacOS, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), New Relic, AWS Lambda
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon EFS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Database Management
Other
AWS Certified Solution Architect, Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaler (KEDA), OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, GitHub Runners, GCP LB, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Prometheus, Flux CD, Karpenter, Okta, Renovate, Google Pub/Sub, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Computing, Security, GitOps, Programming, IT Security, Pulumi, AWS App Runner
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