Resume update for April 2021.

Nimrod Adar - נמרוד אדר - Resume (October 2020)

Nimrod Adar - נמרוד אדר - Resume (April 2021)

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Contact information

:Blog:

    https://www.shore.co.il/blog/

:Git repos:

:Portfolio:

    https://git.shore.co.il/explore/

About me

- 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.

- Dislikes: Bureaucracy, knowledge silos.

Employment

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:2019-now:

:2019-2021:

  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.

  <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.

: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.

  DevOps in `Dojo labs <https://dojo.bullguard.com>`_. Reduced time to

  production with CI/CD pipelines and testing procedures. Improved reliability

  by implementing log and metric collection. Established workflows for

  development, testing and releases. Created tooling for database migrations and

  established database migrations workflows. Broke a monolite 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 a

  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.

  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 single

  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).