Danylo Akinfiiev
Halifax,NS
Summary
Experienced professional with a 9+ years in IT services industry. Skilled in DevOps, Cloud Platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Virtualization, System Administration and Security. Working as a DevOps, optimized and created full devops cycles and reduced deployment/downtime of servers and services by 99,999%. Created and implemented Security pipeline within the company.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Zenimax Media Halifax (Microsoft XBOX studios)
Halifax, NS
04.2023 - Current
- AWS Cloud Architecture: Designed and managed complex AWS cloud architectures, employing services like EC2, S3, and Lambda to build scalable and resilient infrastructure that supports critical business applications.
- CI/CD Pipeline Management: Implemented and maintained Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines, resulting in a 30% reduction in the release cycle time and enhanced collaboration between development and operations teams.
- API Design & Development: Led the design and development of scalable and robust APIs using C#, ensuring alignment with business needs and seamless integration with various applications and systems.
- Microsoft Collaboration Tools Integration: Leveraged Microsoft’s suite of collaboration and development tools, seamlessly integrating them into existing workflows, leading to improved team coordination and project tracking.
- Mobile App Deployment: Innovated an automated deployment stack for mobile applications, incorporating features like automatic security checks and updates. This deployment strategy optimized the release process for iOS and Android mobile games, ensuring they remain secure and up-to-date.
Site Reliability Engineer
DistillerSR
Ottawa, ON
08.2022 - 05.2023
- Implemented over 20 Infrastructure as Code pipelines, significantly streamlining deployment processes and enhancing operational efficiency.
- Developed and managed 11+ Terraform pipelines specifically for AWS environments, significantly enhancing infrastructure scalability and management.
- Optimized Kubernetes configurations for improved performance across cloud clusters, ensuring efficient resource utilization and reliability.
- Managed a robust AWS-based cloud platform, aligning cloud infrastructure with strategic business objectives and ensuring seamless operation.
- Handled 100% of configuration and release management tasks, maintaining high standards of consistency and reliability in software delivery.
- Supported development teams by effectively scaling infrastructure to accommodate thousands of users, thereby facilitating smooth and efficient application performance.
- Monitored all AWS and dedicated systems, maintaining optimal performance.
- Implemented comprehensive security measures tailored to protect both developers and cloud environments, enhancing overall system security and compliance.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Kevuru Games
Kyiv, Ukraine
02.2022 - 06.2022
- Created and implemented more than 50 new DevOps pipelines to deliver Infrastructure as Code (teamcity, jenkins)
- Researched and recommended 7 new technologies and emerging operational practices
- Developed and optimased kubernetes pipes for cloud clusters
- Mentored 3 junior devops engineers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities
- Managed development of a robust Cloud platform sitting on AWS architecture
- Owned and operated 100% of all configuration and release management governance
- Supported development teams by building, maintaining, and scaling infrastructure to support applications that are used by thousands of users(nft, blockchain,native games)
Senior DevOps Engineer
DragonsLake
Kyiv, Ukraine
12.2021 - 02.2022
- Familiarity with game engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine, and experience integrating them with devops tools and pipelines
- . Strong understanding of networking and security concepts, and experience implementing them for game services.
- Experience with setting up and configuring Jenkins pipelines for building, testing, and deploying Unity and Unreal Engine based games.
- Experience with Perforce for source control management of Unity and Unreal Engine based game projects.
Senior DevOps Engineer
PowerCode
Kyiv, Ukraine
08.2021 - 02.2022
- Owned and operated 100% of all configuration and release management governance
- Managed development of a robust Cloud platform sitting on Cloud architecture Implementation of continuous integration and code delivery for 15 projects
Middle to Senior DevOps Engineer
SmartyAds
Kyiv , Ukraine
04.2019 - 10.2021
- Owned and operated 100% of all configuration and release management governance
- Ensured 100% of all project documentation was created and updated, including design, development, and deployment documentation
- Supported development teams by building, maintaining, and scaling infrastructure to support applications that are used by millions of users (~$150,000 a year lost due to unavailability of services)
- Developed more than 60 Ansible playbooks and automated the execution of routine Linux scripts
- Managed development of a robust Cloud and bare-metal platform sitting on Cloud and sever architecture (more that 1500 servers and 300 instances) conversion by 24% (~$253,000 in new monthly revenue)
Education
● MASTERS CERTIFICATE - CYBERSECURITY(RED TEAM)
HackerU Pro
Israel06.2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
NAU (National Aviation University)
Kyiv06.2013
Skills
- Cloud: Azure, AWS, GCP
- NoSQL: Redis, Aerospike, Mongo
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab-CI, TeamCity, GitHub
- Linux: Debian, Ubuntu, Centos, Kali
- Monitoring: Zabbix, Prometheus/Grafana
- CM: Ansible, Terraform, AWX
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Bash, C#, Python
- DevSecOps
- Pentest
Affiliations
- DevOps Challenge winner DEV Challenge XVIII 2021 ● 1 place winner Parimatch Hackaton Ukraine 2020 ● 2 place winner CyberSecurity Challenge Ukraine 2018 ● Pentester IT Army UA (volunteer) 2022
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Zenimax Media Halifax (Microsoft XBOX studios)
04.2023 - Current
Site Reliability Engineer
DistillerSR
08.2022 - 05.2023
Lead DevOps Engineer
Kevuru Games
02.2022 - 06.2022
Senior DevOps Engineer
DragonsLake
12.2021 - 02.2022
Senior DevOps Engineer
PowerCode
08.2021 - 02.2022
Middle to Senior DevOps Engineer
SmartyAds
04.2019 - 10.2021
● MASTERS CERTIFICATE - CYBERSECURITY(RED TEAM)
HackerU Pro
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
NAU (National Aviation University)
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