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DevOps engineer and Python developer
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Contact information
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:Tel:
`+972-52-871-3696 <tel:+972528713696>`_
:Mail:
`nimrod@shore.co.il <mailto: nimrod@shore.co.il>`_
:Blog:
https://www.shore.co.il/blog/
- DevOps engineer, Python developer and Linux and BSD sysadmin.
- Freelance, working remotely from Zichron Ya'akov, Israel.
- Born in ’83.
- German and Israeli citizenship.
- First computer - 1989, first program - 1993, first homelab - 1999.
- Python backend developer (dabbled in C, C++, Scheme, Pascal, Perl, PHP, JS,
Ruby, Go, Clojure and Lua).
- Speaks Hebrew (mother tongue), English (Fluent) and some Yiddish.
- Avid sailor, used to be rank 2nd in Israel in 5.5m Catamarans.
Employment
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Senior DevOps engineer at the `Endless OS Foundation
<https://www.endlessos.org/>`_ (previous Endless Mobile). Improved security
practices and secret management, reduced infrastructure cost, built
infrastructure for containerized services. Implemented logging and metric
collection for visibility into our services. Took ownership of a metric
collection service, collecting metrics from 10s of thousands of installations,
reporting over a million metric points daily. Main tools: Terraform, Ansible,
Docker, Python, AWS, ECS, Jenkins, Postgres and Hashicorp Vault.
DevOps in `Dojo labs <https://dojo.bullguard.com>`_. Reduced time to
production with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing. Improved reliability
by implementing log and metric collection. Established workflows for
development, testing and releases. Created tooling for database migrations and
established database migrations workflow. Broke a monolith application to
containerized services. Led a PoC of Kubernetes deployment both in the cloud
and on-premise. Main tools: Ansible, Docker, Python, RabbitMQ, ELK, AWS and
Postgres.
:2016-2017:
DevOps in `FDNA <https://www.fdna.com/>`_. Migrated production and dev
environments to AWS. Inherited a big Ansible code-base, added testing and
refactored. Instituted CI, CD (for some projects) and an artifact
repository. Replaced unmaintained Nagios setup with a fully automated
CloudWatch metrics and Lambda alerts setup. Main tools: Ansible, Python, AWS,
MySQL, MongoDB, Bitbucket Pipelines.
:2014-2015:
DevOps in `Wise ecommerce <https://www.wiser.com/>`_, in charge of
reliability, automation, scaling. Helped transition the company from a single
physical server to AWS. Proudest moment: scaling a single process to 10,000s
of requests a minute running on 10s of nodes on AWS (using Ansible and LXC).
:2013-2014:
Sysadmin in Intel Haifa, managing a cluster of ~250 SuSE Linux servers and ~80
TB of EMC and NetApp NAS appliances in production and DR replicated
environments, shell and Python scripting, automation, software deployment,
monitoring and growth projection.
:2008-2013:
Technical director of Haifa's Cinematheque. Setup a windows based ticketing
system with PowerShell automation, new LAMP based web site with online orders,
new digital projection system with Linux-based players, networking projection
rooms and self built 20TB NAS based on Debian.
Volunteered as a tutor at Hadar Haifa learning center, teaching math and
English.
Jr. sysadmin and help-desk in Haifa University' library. Assisted in
decommissioning a Novell directory and moving to Active Directory and
supported Windows and RHEL servers, networking, VMware ESX, backup and Windows
Terminal Services with thin-clients.
Military Service
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:2002-2005:
L.T. Of the Israeli Navy Commanding School, exemplary service.