Lead Systems Engineer

VALERIY KHASHKOVSKIY

DevOps / FinOps / SRE Ph.D./Assoc.Prof.



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As a Lead Systems Engineer, I excel in working on diverse projects and bring my expertise and experience to the clients. Proficient in managing multiple projects and delivering expert-level engineering solutions to clients, conducting audits and coordinating team efforts. Skilled in assisting teams and individuals in adopting appropriate tools and enhancing processes through DevOps practices.

PROFILE


DEVOPS / FINOPS / SRE

Experienced in systems engineering, infrastructure management, software development lifecycle support, resource and requirements management, and Linux-based systems administration. Proficient in networking problem-solving, coordinating DevOps and development teams, and developing curricula.
Hands-on experience utilizing a diverse range of tools and platforms including CI/CD tools (Gitlab pipelines, Jenkins, Concourse-CI, GoCD), IAAC (Terraform), configuration management tools (Ansible), software development tools (Procedural, Functional, Scripting), and FinOps tools (Cloudhealth, Cloudability)

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Ph.D

I have held lectures on the following disciplines: “Administration of Information Systems on the Unix / Linux Platform”, “Administration of Information Systems on the Oracle Platform”, “Theory of Computational Processes”, “Distributed and Cloud Computing, Parallel Programming”, supervised of more than 150th bachelor and master’s theses

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SKILLS & TOOLS


Operating systems and HW platforms

Linux RPM-based (BlackCat, RedHat, CentOS, SuSE), DEB-based (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint), Unix (FreeBSD),Windows (Window NT 4, Windows 2000 Server/AS, Windows 2003 ES...)
Sun(Sunfire 2200, Sun V40z),HP BL-460c

Programming and scripting

Golang, PHP, Object Pascal, C, Java, PERL, Python, Bash

Virtualization and containerization

QENU, VMWare, VirtualBox, openNebula, Proxmox, LXC, Docker

Public cloud platforms and IAAS

AWS, GCP, Azure, Openstack, Terraform, Packer, Ansible

CI/CD

Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Tekton, Bamboo, GoCD, Concourse-CI

Databases

MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, Oracle

Service mesh

Nomad/Consul, Envoy, Nginx,

Monitoring and alerting

Prometheus/Graphana, Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Zabbix

Cost management

Cloudhealth, Cloudability

Experience

Great companies I worked for


[ 2019 - now ]

Lead systems engineer @ EPAM Systems

AWS/GCP/AZURE cost reporting and reallocation, Cloudhealth Amazon RDS, Solr, IntelliJ IDEA, Bash, Jenkins, GoCD, Concourse-CI, groovy, gitlab/gitlab-ci, bitbucket, Terraform, packer, ansible, AWS (EC2, R53, RDS, ALB, SG, TG, VPC), Nexus, Consul/Nomad, Envoy, Kafka, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, Keycloak, OpenVPN, Cloudflare, LetsEncrypt, Zipkin

[ 2017 - 2019 ]

DevOps, SRE, System administrator / Contractor

Terraform, Ansible, AWS EC2/RDS, MongoDB, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Zabbix, Docker, K8s, GitLab, Cassandra (+papertrail, +travis-ci), nginx, mysql, php, jenkins, redmine

[ 2017 - 2018 ]

DevOps eng, SRE/System administrator @ Oggetto Web, LLC...

CentOS/Debian, nginx, mysql, php, jenkins, git/gitlab, lxc/docker, ansible, ELK, redmine, haproxy, keepalived, galera-cluster

[ 2009-2017 ]

Deputy Director for Science @ Inostudio solutions, LLC...

Big Data Project

[ 2005-2009 ]

Leading Specialist of the Chief Designer Department @ Federal Cadastral Center "ZEMLYA"...

Delphi, SVN, Oracle, Action Recorder

[ 2005-2006 ]

System administrator @ YUZHNYI REGION, LLC

CentOS, nginx, mysql, php, postfix, dovecot, SMB, FTP, VirtualBox. Windows 2003/AD/PDC.

[ 2005-2006 ]

System administrator @ BAZA DESIGN, LLC

CentOS, nginx, mysql, php, postfix, dovecot

[ 2004-2005 ]

System administrator @ Agro-industrial company "KARAVAY PLUS"

FreeBSD, nginx, mysql, php, postfix, dovecot.

[ 2005 - 2022 ]

Southern Federal University (SFEDU, http://sfedu.ru) (former Taganrog State University of Radioengineering (TSURE), Russia, Taganrog),
08/2005 / Ph.D., Assoc. prof. at Software engineering department

5 labs, Server farm (Sun v40z, Sunfire 2200, HP BL 460c (16 узлов)/mellanox Infiniband); Linux/Windows Server (2000, 2003/AD, PDC/BDC), VMWare GSX Server/KVM/QEMU/VirtualBox, nginx, mysql, squid, iptables...etc/Proxmox/OpenNebula

[ 1997 ]

Programmer for Built-in systems @ JSC "Scientific design office computing systems”

DSP (TMS) Assembler