Joom Dec, 2022 - now
Main responsibilities:
- Manage and keep motived talented team of 6 engineers
- Build short/long-term team goals and plans
- Track projects execution
- Maintain hiring process
Main achievements
- Significantly streamlined and improved team processes (daily stand-ups not running out of time, planning mostly focused on quartarly goals, every sprint has a mandatory demo)
- Projects progress is tracked now, increased the ratio of successfully delivered projects
- Designed and implemented SLO for crucial infrastructure components
- Reworked and simplified pipeline for building AMIs. Migrated to "service approach", so external teams could managed their AMIs with using CT/CD pipelines.
- Significant cost optimizations:
- Supported ARM workloads in our K8S-clusters
- Increased the ratio of inter-AZ traffic for EKS-clusters
- Increased the ratio of inter-AZ traffic for in-house logs infrastructure
- Continuous cost review process
- Lead the process of migration to the new CDN-provider with 0 downtime and smooth customer experiences
- For the first time in company provided coverage for ALL hosts and provided metrics for security team
- With the team eliminated tech debt and migrated from outdated K8S-clusters and old Ubuntu versions
June 2019 - Dec, 2022
Main responsibilities:
- Maintain in-house deployment and tools for
IaaC
and automatedCM
approaches - Visualise company spendings on infrastructure
- Streamline and automate company on-boarding routine
Main achievements:
- Streamline and automate from scratch company on-boarding process and implemented inter-component integration (
back-end
,BambooHR
,Google Accounts
,FreeIPA
, etc.) - Support and maintain in-house
IaaC
-tools - Make transparent company spendings on infrastructure via Cost Dashboards
- Automation for visualization on infrastructure spendings (via AWS CUR)
- Develop
dashboard-as-a-code
automation for company spendings visualization - Build continuous process for IaaC drift detection
Align Technology February 2018 - June 2019
Main responsibilities:
- Team growth
- Team development
- Hiring
Main achievements
- Reorganize "devops" teams to make increase dev-teams velocity (and reduce TTM)
- embed "devops" engineer into project teams
- Increased headcount from 7 to 14 engineers
- Raised 3 engineers to lead-level positions
Align Technology March 2013 - January 2018
Main activities:
- Coordinate with Dev and SQA teams
- Point of contact for Dev and Staging environment
Chef
deployment automation from scratch- Automated deployments via
Bamboo
build plans - Application deployment migration to
Docker
(andRancher
1.x) for Linux-based applications - Migration to Cloud (AWS)
- SQA Environment build out and maintenance (AWS)
- Infrastructure automation,
IaaC
-approach
Align Technology September 2012 - March 2013
Main activities:
Responsible for in-house python
"Swiss-army knife" framework, which was used
as the following:
CMDB
- Deployment automation
- Automation for application backup / restore
Parallels November 2009 - September 2012
Main activities:
- Automated testing for company products
- Maintain in-house
python
-based QA framework
MSU 2003 - 2010
Graduated from Moscow State University with degree in Math and Applied Math.
- CV: https://github.com/Valiev/cv
- GitHub pet project with more than 80+ stars: https://github.com/Valiev/almostontop
- Auto-generated documentation fan: https://github.com/Valiev/config/blob/master/docs/vimrc.md