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Devops engineer with strong focus on software architecture, development and product product launch. Making sense of blockchain. 18 plus years of experience in DevOps and IT management, with particular expertise in best practices of CI/CD processes.
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Keybase
Evernym 2020-01-13 —
TE Engineer
Developing HA solution using k8s, helm, terraform
Highlights
- Creating IaaC for existing infrastructure and work on future improvments
- Architecture and implmentation of k8s, helm, terraform solution
- Maintainance of existing Infrastructure,CI/CD, Account management, Monitoring
- Defining and building demonstration capabilities
- Development of PoC examples
- Integration of homegrown and 3rd party tools into existing platform
Lakesidernd ltd. 2018-11-01 — 2019-11-01
Consultant
Co-founder and Consultant for DevOps and Blockchain
Highlights
- Engaging with C-level executives to define Enterprise cloud strategies
- Helping companies transform / implement DevOps approach to development and software delivery
- It involves a mix of advisory, design and software development, giving firm guarantees that project will delivers on it's objectives and ROI
- Cost/Benefit modeling and creating compelling business cases for migration
- Analyzing application portfolios, identifying dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assessing migration feasibility
- Client communication and following implementation progress
GameCredits d.o.o 2017-07-01 — 2018-04-01
CTO
Architecture, Work organisation
Highlights
- Driving Architecture design for products and services in gaming ecosystem with integration of blockchain as backbone
- Establishment, structuring and organisation of development teams with integration of existing resources and products
- Promotion and education about blockchain and it's possibilities through organisation of meetups and hackathons
- Driving company from 5 to 150+ engineers on two locations
- Managing day to day challanges
International Game Technology PLC 2015-07-01 — 2017-07-01
Head of Games Engineering and Support Manager
Head of Engineering - DevOps, Support - Tier3 and QA departments.
Highlights
- Plan and recommend department manpower, training/development and assist in recruiting resources
- Provide leadership to managers and professional staff within a department
- Work closely with development teams to optimize workflow processes
- Serve as liaison between development teams, compliance, and other teams (Vaxjo / SWE, San Francisco / USA, Rome / ITA, Manchester / GB, Kharkiv / UKR)
- Actively participate in arhitectural proposal for new game development framework and it's later implementation
- Deep knowledge of continuous integration and configuration management tools
- Driving QA automation process and implementation
- Coach and mentor talented workforce to improve performance and foster career growth
International Game Technology PLC 2013-08-01 — 2015-07-01
Games - DevOps Team Lead
Tech Lead DevOps Engineer
Highlights
- Sharing knowledge and mentoring others
- Drive DevOps adoption by recommending and implementing tool sets and best practices for automation, configuration and release management
- Unencumbered freedom to innovate, and automate everything
- Setting and ensuring the highest development standards are followed
- Leading implementation of Linux and Windows Environment from baremetal to VMWare
- Serve as the team focal point for Windows and Linux system administration
GTECH Corp. 2007-07-01 — 2013-08-01
Operations Engineer
From localhost to production installation, configuration and maintenance
Highlights
- Installation, Configuration, Deployment and Management of Windows and Linux environments from Development to Production
- Writting build, release, deployment tools and scripts
- Providing third level support, monitor alerts, resolve issues and create tickets accordingly
- Making sure that everything that has CPU is working properly
- Develop advance guides, processes and technical resolution that directly impact the programs cost, schedule and technical performance goals
Finsoft Ltd 2005-10-01 — 2007-07-01
System Administrator
Development support and System administration
Highlights
- Administration of Windows Servers, Installation and Configuration of various softwares, deployment of custom software
- Writting build and Deployment scripts
- Implementation of Maven builds
- Separation of Development / UAT / Stage / Production environments
- Compliance chekcs and QA testing
Platoplus d.o.o 2001-11-01 — 2005-10-01
System Administrator
Administration of servers and machines in Gaming Club with 300+ PC.
Highlights
- Writting scripts for remote installation
- Gaming machines optimisation
- Creating traning and support guides
- Providing 24/7 on call technical support
VISER, University of Belgrade 2005-09-01 — 2009-05-10
Computer Science
Bachelor
OS
- Windows
- Debian / Ubuntu
- RedHat / CentOS
Version Control System
- Git
- Subversion
- TFS
- VSS
Infrastructure and Tools
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Baremetal
- Azure
- AWS
Build and Packaging Tools
- Ant
- Maven
- Helm
- Gradle
- Docker Composer
- Packer
- NPM
Repositories
- Nexus OSS
- Artifactory
- Min.io
Virtualisation and Tools
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- VMWare Sphere
- Vagrant
Monitoring Tools
- Prometheus
- Graphite
- NewRelic
- DataDog
Logging Tools
- Logstash
- FluentD
Continuous Integration
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- Azure DevOps
- argo-cd
Issue management
- Jira
- Trello
- Asana
- Github Issues
Development
- C#
- Powershell
- Python
- Shell
WebServers
- Nginx
- Apache
- IIS
Application Servers
- JBoss
- Tomcat
- Jetty
English
Advance
Serbian
Native Speaker
Gaming
- Gaming
- Development
- Events
- Organisation
Distributed Systems
- Concesus
- Raft
- Paxos