Biruk Asmare Muse
Montreal,QC
Summary
Accomplished DevOps Specialist with a proven track record at Airudi, enhancing code quality by 30% through innovative QA frameworks and software engineering practices. Expert in containerization technologies and Terraform IAC, coupled with strong leadership in managing cross-functional teams. Demonstrates exceptional problem-solving and incident management skills, significantly improving operational efficiency and resource utilization.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Specialist
Airudi
02.2023 - 05.2024
- Led a task force of 4 software engineers to design and implement a QA framework and software engineering best practices, resulting in a 30% increase in code quality.
- Managed access control and monitoring of Airudi's Azure infrastructure, overseeing 500+ Azure resources.
- Containerized several frontend, backend, and ML application components using Docker, enhancing resource utilization by 50%.
- Implemented a Kubernetes-based infrastructure hosting all Airudi's in-house machine learning applications using Terraform , reducing cloud cost by 40%.
- Built and managed all Azure DevOps pipelines, automating code and infrastructure deployment and reducing deployment time by 60%.
- Proposed , designed , and implemented an application performance testing service that reduced setup overhead from one week to 30 minutes using K6, Grafana, Fast API, InfluxDB, and Redis cache.
- Automated new Azure DevOps project setup for new development projects using Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines, reducing the technical setup overhead from two weeks to one hour .
- Implemented Azure cloud cost reporting and alerts using Power BI, Azure Cost Management REST API, and Azure DevOps pipelines, improving cost tracking and reducing cloud expenses by 15%.
- Successfully managed the Law-25 compliance process as Airudi's cybersecurity focal person, ensuring full compliance.
- Managed a SOC-2 compliance gap assessment as Airudi's cybersecurity focal person, identifying and addressing key gaps with a third-party contractor.
- Developed Jira service management workflows and forms to support all internal IT and HR processes, streamlining operations and improving efficiency by 30%.
Data Architect
KPMG Lighthouse Quebec
04.2022 - 03.2023
- Conducted testing and quality assurance for an Azure-based data platform using Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics, enhancing platform reliability.
- Provided detailed requirements for the data platform to the development team and monitored its implementation, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Evaluated the proposed data platform through rigorous testing and collaboration with the development team, resulting in full compliance with the requirements.
- Developed a proof-of-concept (POC) for smoke plume detection from remote sensing images in industrial sites using multiple deep learning-based image segmentation models.
- Researched existing works on industrial smoke plume detection to inform model selection and development.
- Pre-processed open-source multi-band satellite images and performed geomatics analysis to prepare data for model training.
- Implemented and trained several deep learning segmentation models on Azure Databricks using a public dataset, achieving a 70% accuracy rate.
Research Intern
Bombardier Aerospace
09.2020 - 03.2021
- Researched and developed a documentation search service for the engineering design team, reducing retrieval times from one week to a few seconds .
- Identified requirements and use cases, ensuring alignment with team needs and project goals.
- Proposed the architecture and detailed design, laying the foundation for a robust search solution.
- Trained , deployed , and integrated a machine learning classifier to categorize documentation into custom categories, improving organization and accessibility.
- Implemented and deployed the search service using Azure cloud services, utilizing Azure Blob Storage, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Custom Skill-Sets, and Azure Functions, boosting scalability and performance.
- Deployed the documentation classifier model using Azure Cognitive Custom Skill as part of the document indexing pipeline, streamlining the categorization process.
- Implemented role-based access control for the documentation search service using Azure Active Directory Domain Services, enhancing security and access management.
Education
Ph.D. - Computer Engineering
École Polytechnique De Montréal
Montreal, QC12.2022
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia12.2017
Skills
- Security best practices
- API Development
- Software Development
- Containerization Technologies
- Scripting Languages: python
- Test Automation
- Incident Management
- Terraform IAC
- Git and GitHub
- Kubernetes
- Linux Operating System
- Azure DevOps services
Languages
English
Professional Working
Amharic
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
DevOps Specialist
Airudi
02.2023 - 05.2024
Data Architect
KPMG Lighthouse Quebec
04.2022 - 03.2023
Research Intern
Bombardier Aerospace
09.2020 - 03.2021
Ph.D. - Computer Engineering
École Polytechnique De Montréal
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
Addis Ababa University
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