Aleksandr Demshin

address: Russia, Perm

email: aleksandr@demsh.in

telegram: @demshin

IT experience

BTS Digital, https://btsdigital.kz (October 2020 - current time), remotely

DevOps Team Lead

  • DevOps Team Management
  • Infrastructure Planning
  • Architecture Design & Documentation
  • Interacting with Customers
  • Interacting with Developers
  • Supporting Applications with Digital ID Technologies Passport, Digital ID, etc
  • CA Accreditation for Kazakhstan government requirements
  • Kubernetes Clusters Administration (Kubespray, Helm 3, Terraform)
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • CloudFlare (Web Application Firewall, DNS)
  • Hashicorp Vault
  • Ansible
  • OpenStack (OpenStack CLI, Terraform)
  • PostgreSQL
  • CentOS 8
  • Monitoring & Alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, etc.

Paragon Software, https://www.paragon-software.com/ (April 2020 - September 2020), remotely

System Engineer

  • Supporting infrastructure on Azure
  • Kubernetes (AKS & Kubespray)
  • Ansible
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

Transparency Registry, (November 2018 - April 2020), remotely

System Engineer

  • Supporting infrastructure with Terraform on AWS
  • Supporting Linux (Ubuntu) servers
  • CI (Bitbucket Pipelines)
  • Ansible
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker Registry, also AWS ECR
  • Hashicorp Vault

360bound INC, USA, Kennesaw, GA, https://360bound.com (July 2017 - September 2020), remotely

System Engineer (September 2017 - September 2020)

  • Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS 6)
  • Nginx
  • CI (Jenkins, CircleCI)
  • Docker (Docker Registry, Docker Compose)
  • AWS:
    • Tools: web console, awscli, terraform
    • Services: EC2, S3, CloudTrail, VPS, RDS, IAM, etc
  • Implementing existing AWS Infrastructure in Terraform
  • Support AWS Infrastructure with Terraform
  • Monitoring & Alerting with DataDog
  • Implementing HIPAA Compliance on AWS

QA TechLead (July 2017 - September 2017)

  • QA Team Management
  • TestRail Implementation
  • Jira Administration
  • Writing technical regulations for QA Team
  • QA process reorganization

Pro IT Resource, Perm, https://proitr.ru (October 2015 - April 2017), in house

QA Automation

  • Automation Web UI Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Writing Test Cases
  • Bug Reporting
  • Bug Fixing Control
  • Tools: Java, JavaScript, Selenium, Webdriver.IO, Docker, Selenium Grid
  • Scrum, Kanban
  • Writing Technical Documentation

REGIONAL MANAGEMENT CENTRE, Perm, https://rmc.edu.ru/eng/ (October 2003 — December 2011), in house

Lecturer

  • the Department of information technology
  • the course “Basics of computer networking” (Network Topology, OSI model, TCP/IP, Network protocols, Cable systems)

Technical Skills

System Administration & DevOps

Kubernetes, Docker (Docker Compose), Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Nginx, Cloud Platforms (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean), CI (GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI), Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform, Ansible), and other :-)

Programming languages & other

Bash, YAML, JavaScript, HTML, Basics of CSS, Basics of SQL, Basics of Python

Testing

Functional Testing, automated UI Testing, Unit Testing, TestNG, API Testing, TestRail

Tools, Frameworks and other technical skills

Selenium, Webdriver.IO, REST-Assured, Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB), Version control software (git, GitLab, Github, BitBucket), Atlassian Jira, Confluence

Other skills

Very good Russian, reading technical documentation on English, easily communicate with people.

Education

Otus https://otus.ru

Kubernetes course 2021

Linux Administrator course 2020

DevOps practices and tools course 2019

GetJavaJob http://www.getjavajob.com 2015 - professional retraining

First part of course.

Thank you very much Vitaly! :-)

PERM NATIONAL RESEARCH POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, https://pstu.ru/en/, (2005 - 2010) - incomplete higher education

Electrical Engineering Faculty

Speciality “Automatics and telemechanics”

REGIONAL MANAGEMENT CENTRE, Perm, https://rmc.edu.ru/eng/ (2003 — 2005) - professional retraining

The faculty of information technology http://dit.perm.ru

Organization and maintenance of computer networks