Volodymyr Babchynskyy
Senior DevOps Engineer/Team lead
Cell: +1-778-***-****
E-mail: ******@*****.***
Skype: vvchik
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/babchynskyy
Summary
I am a skilled DevOps Engineer/Team Lead with 18 years of hands-on experience in IT process automation. I have an excellent hands-on experience in IT staff management, organizing CI/CD processes, and supporting extensive, distributed infrastructure. Exceptional ability with short and long-term troubleshooting. Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
Skills & Technologies
Leadership: Team Lead, Release Management, Project Management, Community Relations
Architecture: Technical Specifications and Design, SRS, Architecture Reports and Visions
Sales: Pre-Sales expertise, Assessments, Proposals
Methodologies: DevOps, Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD), Agile Scrum, TDD, Waterfall
Clouds: Azure, AWS, GCP
Configuration mgmt. and Infrastructure as Code tools: Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt
Operating Systems: Linux (Gentoo, Debian, CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, Alpine), FreeBSD, macOS, Windows (workstation: 9x-10, server: NT-2016/kinda rusty)
Virtualization/Containerization: VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes
Logging and monitoring: ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Zabbix, Nagios, DataDog
CI/CD tools: TeamCity, Jenkins, TFS, Travis, Gitlab, GitHub Actions
Databases: MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, Oracle, Redis, MongoDB, Elastic Search
Network protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, NTP, SNMP, and lot other
Other: Mail Servers, DNS, DHCP, Nginx, Apache, JBoss, Tomcat
Designing and implementing distributed computing networks
Active Directory: management, group policies, security policies, etc.
Scripting: Bash, PowerShell, Python and Ruby
Version Control: Git, SVN, Perforce
Experience
08/2017- present time, Senior DevOps Engineer
Electronic Arts Canada
• Support of the world's largest gaming network
• Web Services automatization, deployment and support
• Analyzing, architecting and developing projects
• Design and implement deployment automation for various projects
• Code, test, and debug applications
• Implementing technical solutions in compliance with the best practices and standards
• Track the implementation process
• Explore systems edge cases, failure modes, behaviours, and specific implementations.
• Migrating production workload from EC2 to Kubernetes clusters
01/2015 – 08/2017, Sr. Software Engineer, Team lead.
SoftServe (service company)
Projects:
• Creating Infrastructure for HL/HA and zero downtime deployment.
• Implementation of CI/CD process for our customer, migration to Azure part of services, development of Chef cookbooks for automating product and services deployment
• Implementation of security improvements after security audit for AWS web-store
Main responsibilities:
• Architecture and design
• Requirements analysis and clarification
• Estimation, prioritization, and distribution of tasks
• Coordination and consulting of client stuff
• Knowledge sharing, coaching
• Development build and deployment scripts
09/2014 – 10/2015, Sr. DevOps Engineer, Team lead.
Ukrainian Information Technologies LCC (Service company, brand name SoftServe).
Projects:
• Designing of AWS to Azure transition of services for Microsoft BizSpark grant owner
• Designing and implementing of centralizing logging and monitoring for distributed cloud and on-premises based datacenters
09/2011 - 09/2014, Team Lead of IT systems support group.
AXA Insurance
• Managing international service delivery and support teams
• Managing local server infrastructure
• Improvements, deployment and support of the back-office insurance system (ITN "Cleva")
• Implementation, improvement and support integration platform (Mule ESB)
• Development process automation
• Data migration between frontend, backend and accounting systems projects delivery
• "Digitalization" project (online and mobile applications customer service improvement)
• Data quality project
• Operation migration project (contract accounting system migration)
• "Product factory" project (implementation of quick insurance product delivery in the back-office system)
08/2008 - 08/2011, Team Lead, Backend support unit
Autocentre Media Group
• Supporting 5th in top Ukrainian website autobazar.ua
• Infrastructure supporting, capacity planning, benchmarking
• Implementing a distributed backup project for all company affiliates
• Led of IT department of the Managing company holding
• Delivering IT strategy in bounds of holding, control over information flows, as well as control over the use of network resources
• SLA, Service Desk, providing uninterrupted functioning of servers, PCs, local area & phone networks
• Adopting software products
• Creating and integrating the backup system and recovery procedures
• Licensing
• Providing network security projects: encryption, antivirus, DLP
10/2007 - 07/2008, Project Manager.
JSC Scientific Research Institute of Applied Information Technologies (IT)
• Projects management in the IT area
• Development and implementation of "Centre of account of social privileges."
• Implementation of a "system for external exam preparation in Kyiv city schools."
• Preparation and coordinating of certification of production to on VISA payments card manufacturing
08/2006 - 10/2007, Chef of department IT.
Ukrainian Financial Network (banking startup)
• Creation of the department from a zero
• Setting, tuning and accompaniment of the system of processing pay cards
• Development of complex policy of IT security based on standards of ISO/ES and requirements from visa and MasterCard companies
02/2004 - 08/2006, Senior Systems Engineer.
Air Company UM-Air
• Managing works on installation and exploitation of IT infrastructure of an enterprise, application of ERP system created for air company
• Providing safety and IT security of the distributed computer network
• Development of communication projects for remote offices
• Participating in planning and development of the systems of informative work of company services
• Tuning and support servers park
Education
Master's Degree, Odessa National University