Devops Engineer Release Manager
Resume:
Yury Gutkin
Walnut Creek, CA *****
Release Manager/ DevOps
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US Citizen
Results-driven Release Engineer/Manger and/or DevOps Engineer with over 18 of experience designing and implementing scalable CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure with IaC tools, managing cloud-native environments, and enhancing software delivery speed and reliability.
10 years of experience orchestrating software releases across complex, fast-paced environments
Adept at minimizing risk and downtime while maximizing quality and deployment efficiency in cloud-native and on-prem environments.
SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES
Release & Change Management: ITIL, CAB processes, production readiness
CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI
Source Control: Git, Bitbucket, GitHub
Infrastructure & Automation: Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, GitOps. ArgoCD, AWS API and SDK.
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
Monitoring & Logging: Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
Project Tools: Jira, Confluence
SDLC Frameworks: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
Scripting: Shell, Python, Groovy (for Jenkins), Java
Databases: Oracle, Mongo, MySQL
Build Tools: Gradle, Maven
Work Experience:
Release Manager
Guardant Health Palo Alto, CA
March 2024 – August 2025
Own execution of Go-Live activities, conducting release readiness reviews pre-deployment and milestone reviews post-deployment
Collaborate with DevOps, QA, and development teams to coordinate branches, metadata changes, and feature deployments
Train team members on DevOps tools and processes, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and DevOps maturity
Communicate updates on GH release activities to stakeholders
Identify risks impacting scope, schedule, or quality; proactively mitigate these risks
Maintain a centralized GH release repository, managing key information like deployment procedures, dependencies, feature flags, and notification lists
Work with engineering teams to design sustainable deployment packaging and automation systems
Troubleshoot build related issues
Work closely with QA teams to integrate automated testing as a part of CI/CD
Senior DevOps Engineer
Guardant Health Palo Alto, CA
March 2021 – April 2023
Designed and implemented scalable Kubernetes clusters on AWS using Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) with autoscaling node groups for production workloads.
Automated provisioning of EKS clusters using Terraform and Helm charts to ensure reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure deployments.
Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to manage VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM roles, EKS, and associated AWS resources.
Integrated Kubernetes-based deployment pipelines using Jenkins/ArgoCD for GitOps-driven CI/CD workflows.
Created automated pipelines for building, testing, and deploying microservices in EKS using Jenkins, Docker, and Helm.
Configured AWS IAM roles and service accounts for least-privilege access to Kubernetes workloads.
Implemented Kubernetes RBAC policies and network policies to enforce strict namespace isolation and workload security.
Integrated secrets management using AWS Secrets Manager and external secrets with Kubernetes. Set up centralized logging and monitoring for Kubernetes workloads using Prometheus/Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and Splunk
Configured Grafana dashboards and custom alerts to monitor Kubernetes cluster health, pod resource usage, and system metrics.
Integrated Splunk with Kubernetes for log aggregation and real-time search across distributed workloads.
Containerized monolithic and microservices applications using Docker and pushed images to Amazon ECR.
Updating, implementing, and monitoring network setups and security groups.
Building and promoting the LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) to test and then production environments
Owned and supported Python/Java/Groovy/Terraform scripts
Configuring SonarQube and later SonarCloud
Senior DevOps/ Release Engineer/ Release Manager
Salesforce (Griddable acquisition) - San Francisco, CA March 2019 to December 2021
Planed and managed the release lifecycle for Salesforce projects, including deliverables, dependencies, and cross-functional collaboration
Develop and oversee implementation and deployment plans aligned with the Salesforce release schedule
Own execution of Go-Live activities, conducting release readiness reviews pre-deployment and milestone reviews post-deployment
Collaborate with Salesforce DevOps, QA, and development teams to coordinate branches, metadata changes, and feature deployments
Train team members on DevOps tools and processes, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and DevOps maturity
ommunicate updates on Salesforce release activities to stakeholders
Identify risks impacting scope, schedule, or quality; proactively mitigate these risks
Implement streamlined procedures for successful Salesforce deployments with minimal rework
Maintain a centralized Salesforce release repository, managing key information like deployment procedures, dependencies, feature flags, and notification lists
Manage cross-team coordination of production issues to ensure quick resolution of Salesforce-specific bugs or deployment challenges
Build to adopt Griddable build/release services to Salesforce processes and Nexus artifact repository
Filed approval requests to allow Griddable artifacts and containers to be officially part of Salesforce downloads
Created quip documents on how to use Griddable services
Produced demos and working examples for Salesforce employee education purposes.
Build/Release Engineer Griddable INC - San Jose, CA February 2017 to March 2019
Designed and build product release flow
Build and supported AWS, AZURE, and GCP instances/snapshots utilizing Terraform, Bash and Python scripts.
Build Jenkins CI/CD GCP(and AZURE) with nodes requested on demand. Jenkins's nodes with preinstalled Minikube were utilized to run functional verification of every GIT checkin.
Added and monitored TestNG and SonarQube reports
Collected execution data logs for Elasticsearch visual data analysis
Reported system failure, filed and fixed reported issues
Created custom builds based on GIT commit and other inputs requested by QA and sales teams.
Build/Release Engineer
Betcade Inc
February 2016 to February 2017
Designed, developed, and maintained automated processes that enable the continuous delivery of improvements to the mobile payment platform
Build client Android Applications
Install backend server on multiple environments
Build and execute performance test with post analyses of application behavior
Build/Release Engineer
Wandisco Inc
February 2015 to November 2015
Build automatically deployed environment utilizing Vim Apis of ESX and VC VMware technologies to support DEV and QA department with multiple versions of HDP, PHD and CDH releases.
Build shell script-based automation to generate data and validate Hadoop data processing
Created and supported multiple Jenkins CI projects
Automatically validated builds and released bits to company website for customer downloads
Build/Release Engineer (MTS)
Pivotal Inc
April 2013 to 2015
Projects: Hadoop based analytic tool
Created Java-Selenium based Test Automation Framework utilizing Spring, Hibernate, Maven, TestNG technologies
Created continuous integration projects in Jenkins to support test infrastructure utilizing VMware VCD and VC.
In CI projects crated scripts to installed and configured HADOOP builds with in house developed products
Tagged qualified Jenkins builds in GIT
Produced and released software test builds to client download portal
Senior MTS
VMWare Inc
May 2006 to April 2013
Projects: Converter, VCloud Director (Lab Manager)
Assisted in design and provided implementation for test REST API and front-end frameworks.
Coded and executed tests against product released builds using TestNG and Selenium for Flex GUI
Created reports for filed bugs and test execution utilizing SSRS
Involved in QA lab setups using VMWare environment
Helped to display product features during VMWare World
Provided statistic for in database performance testing
Education
Mechanical Engineer
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