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Nimrod Adar - נמרוד אדר - Resume (October 2020)
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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/
:Git repos:
- DevOps engineer, Linux and BSD sysadmin and Python developer.
- 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).
- Believes in infrastructure as code, reproducibility, readability and minimal
suprises.
- Speaks Hebrew (mother tongue), English (Fluent) and some Yiddish.
- Avid sailor, used to be rank 2nd in Israel in 5.5m Catamarans.
- Likes: Python, Ansible, Git, SSH, Vim, Docker, Markdown, Hashicorp, AWK and
the command line.
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- Dislikes: Bureaucracy, knowledge silos.
Employment
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:2019-now:
Senior DevOps engineer at the `Endless OS Foundation
<https://www.endlessos.org/>`_ (previous Endless Mobile). Improving security
practices, reducing 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.
:2017-2018:
DevOps in `Dojo labs <https://dojo.bullguard.com>`_. Established database
migration workflow. Implemented instrumentation for backend processes.
Improved logging infrastructure. Improved Git workflow. Broke a monolith
application to services with Docker, deployed at scale with Kubernetes (both
on-premise and cloud installations). Added a CI/CD pipeline with GitLab.
: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 a
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.
:2014-2015:
DevOps in `Wise ecommerce <https://www.wiser.com/>`_, in charge of
reliability, automation, scaling. Helped transition the company from 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.
:2007-2009:
Volunteered as a tutor at Hadar Haifa learning center, teaching math and
English.
:2007-2008:
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.
Education
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:2007-2010:
Haifa University, majoring in CS.
:2006:
Technion, majoring in MIS
Military Service
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:2002-2005:
L.T. Of the Israeli Navy Commanding School, exemplary service.