Expert-level software engineer / DevOps consultant | 15+ years international experience in Australia, US and Singapore | Full Time Freelancer | Java / Kotlin / Python / Spring | AWS / GCP / Terraform / Kubernetes / Docker / Helm / Ansible / Chef / ActiveMQ
Australian citizen, currently located in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Proven ability to deliver complex projects.
References and testimonials available on request.
Travel / on-site arrangements possible.
Recent achievements and deliverables:
- Productionising Kubernetes cluster on AWS EKS with segregated and isolated prod/non-prod segments, including EC2 and Fargate;
- Implementing custom pod scheduler to support massive amount of short-lived tasks;
- Implementing CI/CD governance with Jenkins Template Engine, extracting Jenkinsfiles into Operations-controlled repository
- Implementing "Virtual Swimlanes" parallel deployments to unlock parallel builds based on pull requests;
Skills and experience:
- Java / J2ee / Spring Framework / Spring Boot
- NodeJS / React / Angular / TypeScript / Vue.JS etc
- Salesforce / Lightning / Aura
- Python (including building custom pypi packages, unit testing with PyUnit)
- Test Automation
- AWS / GCP / Azure
- Serverless solutions with Google App Engine
- Kubernetes standalone and with EKS
- Splunk / ELK
- Infrastructure automation with Chef and Ansible
- Compliance automation with Inspec
Work history:
Fastlane Solutions (Australia) - Principal Consultant, Head of Tech
Geosciences Australia - Platform Engineer Consultant, cloud adoption, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
Westpac Bank (Australia) - Digital Platform Engineer, development / automation, Python/Java, Tomcat-as-a-service
UOB (Singapore) - Automation Consultant / Architect, development / automation, CHEF, Ruby, InSpec, JFrog Artifactory, integration, stakeholder management
Qantas (Australia) - Platform Architect, development / automation, AWS, Spring Boot, AEM, OSGi, RestAssured, JUnit/Mockito
ProQuest Consulting (Australia) - Salesforce Consultant, end-to-end solution delivery with APEX/Lightning components, Communities, Portal, Marketing Cloud, Pardot.
Woolworths (Australia) - Cloud Development Consultant, architecture/development, highly scalable solutions with Google App Engine, Google Cloud Datastore, BigQuery/BigTable