Ivan K.

Ivan K. has a diverse range of work experience, starting with their current role as a DevOps Tech Lead Engineer at N-iX. In this position, they lead a team of 10 DevOps engineers and is responsible for managing the scrum facility and troubleshooting sessions. Ivan has demonstrated their ability to drive major incidents and minimize downtime by working with various teams across the project and providing effective resolutions. Ivan has also successfully automated system configurations, resulting in an increase in migration deliverables. Additionally, Ivan has played a significant role in the development and deployment of the Azure platform, adopting deployments with ArgoCD installations and speeding up product delivery for customers. Ivan has also bridged the gap between Service Engineering and Software Engineering by actively participating in team meetings to discuss the best DevOps model. Ivan has implemented strategies to optimize costs and reduce each deployment by 2 times and has tracked network operational uptime through TICK-based monitoring configuration. In terms of technology stack, Ivan is proficient in various tools and platforms such as Azure cloud projects, Kubernetes, WebApp, Docker, Rancher, k3s, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Github Actions, ARM, Bicep, Terraform, Helm, git, Gerrit, SonarQube, Grafana, ELK, NewRelic, DataDog, TICK, Application Insights, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Oracle, and RabbitMQ.

Prior to their current role, Ivan worked as a DevOps Engineer at Lebara from March 2017 to August 2019. Ivan also had previous experience as a DevOps Engineer at Infopulse from July 2016 to March 2017, a Senior System Administrator at lifecell Ukraine from June 2015 to July 2016, a Middle System Administrator at lifecell Ukraine from May 2013 to June 2015, an SCCM Administrator / System Administrator at lifecell Ukraine from September 2011 to May 2013, a System Administrator at ProCredit Bank from June 2010 to September 2011, and a Software Engineer at Ukrinbank from October 2007 to September 2009.

Ivan K. attended the National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' from 2006 to 2010, where they studied Computer Science. In terms of additional certifications, they obtained the following: Certification for Kyverno from Nirmata in 2022, Gremlin Certified Chaos Engineering Practitioner - GCCEP from Gremlin in 2022, Kubernetes Essentials from Linux Academy in 2019, Administering and Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager from Microsoft in 2012. Ivan also has certifications in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Exam Tips: Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) from LinkedIn, but the specific dates are not provided.