Miroslav H.

Bulgaria
100
Full-time (40 hrs/week)

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I have serious interests in computing. An adherent of free movement (of people), open-source code and open communities. Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Collaborator of Puppet, Inc.
Lead Admin of the Ubuntu Bulgarian Translators
IBM Client Innovation Centre Managers’ Choice Award "Restlessly Reinvent" /Dec 2017/
Lead Author and Developer of the official Puppet Server Helm Chart which is capable of deploying the required Kubernetes resources - so that Puppet Server is enabled to run in a flexible manner in Kubernetes and be discoverable by internal and/or external Puppet Agents.

Skills and experiences

Kubernetes100%
Python100%
Shell100%
YAML/JSON100%
Puppet100%
Ansible100%
Go Templates100%
PromQL100%
Go80%
JavaScript80%
Java80%
C++80%
SQL80%
Batch80%
HTML80%
CSS80%
HCL100%
Groovy100%

Skills and experiences

Lead DevOps Engineer at Questers

February 2020 - present

People Manager and Technical Lead of the DevOps Team in Bulgaria of Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC - which includes:

Managing a team of DevOps Engineers - dedicated to supporting various development teams with automating their release processes
Owning the automation of the release processes of all the development teams
Serving as a liaison between the Head of DevOps in NYC and the team in Sofia
Architecting new solutions that would lead to higher levels of efficiency and security
Automating the IT infrastructure by writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) for cloud and bare-metal environments
Building and integrating CI/CD pipelines for deployment of brand-new Kubernetes clusters running in cloud and bare-metal environments
Creating a single pane of glass monitoring tools with alerting for entire Kubernetes clusters
Troubleshooting effectively by applying a logical and systematic search for the root cause of a problem
Writing and reviewing code in the following programming, orchestration and/or query languages:
- HCL (Terraform)
- Groovy
- Shell
- YAML/JSON
- Puppet
- Python
- Ansible
- Go Templates
- PromQL
To a lesser extent as well in:
- Go
- JavaScript
- Java
- C++
- and SQL

DevOps Architect at Questers

September 2019 - February 2020

Lead technically the DevOps Team in Bulgaria of Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC - which included:

Architecting new solutions that would lead to higher levels of efficiency and security
Automating IT infrastructure by writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) for cloud and bare-metal environments
Building and integrating CI/CD pipelines for deployment of brand-new Kubernetes clusters running in cloud and bare-metal environments
Creating a single pane of glass monitoring tools with alerting for entire Kubernetes clusters
Troubleshooting effectively by applying a logical and systematic search for the root cause of a problem
Write and review code in the following programming, orchestration and/or query languages:
- HCL (Terraform)
- Groovy
- Shell
- AML/JSON
- Puppet
- Python
- Ansible
- Go Templates
- PromQL
To a lesser extent as well in:
- Go
- JavaScript
- Java
- C++
- SQL

Senior DevOps Engineer at Questers

January 2019 - September 2019

Leading technically the DevOps Team in Bulgaria of Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC - which included:

Automating IT infrastructure by writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) for cloud and bare-metal environments
Building and integrating CI/CD pipelines for deployment of brand-new Kubernetes clusters running in cloud and bare-metal environments
Creating a single pane of glass monitoring tools with alerting for entire Kubernetes clusters
Troubleshooting effectively by applying a logical and systematic search for the root cause of a problem
Write and review code in the following programming, orchestration and/or query languages:
- HCL (Terraform)
- Groovy
- Shell
- AML/JSON
- Puppet
- Python
- Ansible
- Go Templates
- PromQL
To a lesser extent as well in:
- Go
- JavaScript
- Java
- C++
- SQL

Senior DevOps Engineer at Bulpros

June 2018 - January 2019

Design, deploy, maintain, and monitor multiple cloud and on-premises environments
Design, deploy, and maintain configuration management and orchestration infrastructure
Develop automations to support orchestration and application deployment
Working with the R&D to enhance production stability, availability and reliability
Collaborate in a “DevOps” environment where work is being done closely with developers in supporting new applications, features and services

Lead Infrastructure IT Specialist at IBM

March 2017 - July 2018

Leading technically the Cloud Infrastructure IT Team of my sole client at IBM - guiding and supervising them which included:

Demonstrating advanced understanding and support of various Middleware, Database, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Operating System products and implementation practices
Coding in
- Python
- Shell
- JavaScript
- SQL
- Batch
- PowerShell
- HTML
- CSS
therefore:
- many tasks ccoul be automated
- workflow was improved
- software components could be monitored

Middleware IT Specialist at IBM

July 2016 - March 2017

Leading technically the Cloud Infrastructure IT Team of my sole client at IBM - guiding and supervising them which included:

Demonstrating advanced understanding and support of various Middleware, Database, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Operating System products and implementation practices
Coding in
- Python
- Shell
- JavaScript
- SQL
- Batch
- PowerShell
- HTML
- CSS –
therefore:
- many tasks ccoul be automated
- workflow was improved
- software components could be monitored

Middleware L2 Support Engineer at Hewlett-Packard

May 2014 - July 2016

Administration and configuration of:

Linux/UNIX
Apache HTTP Server
Apache Tomcat Application Server
IBM WebSphere Application Server
IBM WebSphere MQ
Oracle WebLogic Server
Oracle Directory Server EE (ODSEE)
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

Educations and Certifications

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Master in Law

2007 - 2013

State Law, Private Law, Public Law, Criminal Law, Commercial Law, Contract Law, Inheritance Law, Family Law, Labour Law, Social Rights, Political Science, IT Law, Administrative Law, Financial Law, Legal Informatics

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Master in Public Administration

2010 - 2011

Globalization, Risk Management, Leadership, Practical Application of Public Regulations, Public Policies, Public Governance and Economics

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bachelor of International Relations

2005 - 2009

European Union Law, Micro-and-Macro Economics, International Private Law, International Public Law, International Politics, History of International Relations, Dispute resolution, English and French languages