Nimrod Adar - נמרוד אדר - Resume (April 2021) ############################################### Contact information ------------------- :Tel: `+972-52-871-3696 `_ :Mail: `nimrod@shore.co.il `_ :Blog: https://www.shore.co.il/blog/ :Portfolio: https://git.shore.co.il/explore/ About me -------- - 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. Employment ---------- :2019-2021: Senior DevOps engineer at the `Endless OS Foundation `_ (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 `_. 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 `_. 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 `_, 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. :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 --------- :2007-2010: Haifa University, majoring in CS. :2006: Technion, majoring in MIS Military Service ---------------- :2002-2005: L.T. Of the Israeli Navy Commanding School, exemplary service. .. image:: https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/by.svg :target: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ :alt: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license