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

About me
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- Freelance, works 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).

- sh < Awk < Fabric < Ansible.

- 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 and the
  command line.

- 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.


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