savin

Staff Dev Ops Engineer

I'm a software development engineer with 13+ years of experience including 3+ years of team

management, specializing in building data platforms, automation, and reconciliation workflows. My

focus areas are Data Engineering, DevOps, and SRE for distributed applications.

I have a strong drive to shape a healthy and long-term productive engineering culture and development

environment that boosts delivery of customer-centric solutions. I choose the most efficient technology

stack for a specific task. I am AWS-certified, as well, I have experience with all the popular cloud

providers and distributed system technologies on daily basis.

I have broad teaching, course creation and mentoring experience.


Experience: 7 years

Yearly salary: $200,000

Hourly rate: $100

Nationality: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Residency: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom


Experience

Staff Software Developer / DevOps / Security Champion
Zendesk
2021 - 2022
I work in the Enterprise Data and Analytics department which is responsible for aggregating, storing and curation. Key achievements and responsibilities: Design and implement data security projects and external service integrations for the data platform. Lead Data Loss Prevention initiative including planning, implementation, collaboration with other departments. Designed and led implementation of a soak testing system for a distributed application. Review and improve tools to audit access to cloud resources.
Senior Software Developer / DevOps
FeedStock
2019 - 2021
I develop real-time activity processing systems and DevOps for financial analysts, and also participate in enhancement of development and management processes within the company. Implementation and integration of NLP and other ML solutions into the real-time emails processing pipeline. Design and optimization of AWS-based solutions, including observability, scalability, costs optimization. Data and tech stack migrations, planning and leading. Planning and implementation of clients' tech integration. Various improvements for the integration of the new clients and maintenance automation. Implementation of CI/CD pipelines and speed up of e2e testing and dev/staging deployments.
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
2018 - 2019
Company-wide HR service development. The scope includes: Building resilient cloud applications and data pipelines with developer-friendly APIs. Design and implement communication and high confidential data migrations between internal and external services. Operational tasks including system metrics and alerts definition, improvements to reduce maintenance costs. Key approaches: Microservice architecture, 12 Factor App.
Software Developer - Development Team Lead
IponWeb (BidSwitch)
2014 - 2018
Led a team of 10 developers and 15+ projects in development, close integrations with the other tech teams and stakeholders. Responsibilities and achievements: Design from scratch and deliver a production-grade client-facing ReST API services (reporting and analytics tools, anti-fraud solutions, etc). Participate in development and maintenance of highload service with clients' API integrations (Cassandra 8 nodes cluster, Python3 asyncio, C++ data processing subsystem, Go). Setup SCRUM framework as the main development process. Setup CI/CD elements, clear health monitoring, development and documentation guidelines mostly from zero to all the projects. Close in-person work with each team member (planning of career paths, resolving of soft skills issues), participate in the hiring process. Close work with stakeholders, write product requirements and technical specs.
Software Developer - Development Team Lead
Yandex
2011 - 2014
I set up and integrated an agile development process including TDD, code reviews and SCRUM elements. Leading the team of 3 developers. Designed and implemented a verification system of contract conditions for Billing and OEBS (semi-structured data, complex business logic). Automated system for resolving common Billing issues that managed to find a solution for more than 60% of the department's issues.
Web-developer
IdealPrice
2011 - 2011
Worked on an e-commerce web service and internal company tools. Designed and implemented a verification system of contract conditions for Billing and OEBS (semi-structured data, complex business logic). Automated system for resolving common Billing issues that managed to find a solution for more than 60% of the department's issues.

Skills

ethereum
python
solana
solidity
typescript
devops
english