Email: roman.ekimov@gmail.com
Mobile phone: +381645124503
Telegram: @toywar
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roman-ekimov-03b23298/

Specialties:

  • Experience in Linux OS family (Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL/CentOS)
  • Bare-metal/VM management (Ansible/Chef)
  • Containerization (Docker/docker-compose)
  • Containers orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker Swarm)
  • Cloud solutions (AWS/GCP/Yandex.Cloud)
  • Continuous Integration and Delivery (GilabCI/Jenkins)
  • Monitoring tools (Prometheus/ELK/Zabbix)
  • Golang/Bash (create tools for automatization and monitoring)

Experience

November, 2022 - present

Blockchain Family - Blockchain integrations

DevOps Engineer (Fintech team)

  • Supporting and improving Cloud-based infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform) and some docker-compose solutions in various of infrastructure (bare-metral/VM)
  • Supporting and creating IaC for fintech-project in GCP Terraform/Ansible/Packer
  • Creating CI/CD pipelines in GitlabCI, manifests (Helm) for deploy Java/Rust/Go applications in cloud Kubernetes clusters
  • Implement DevOps practices in new messaging project based on Matrix protocol
  • Infrastructure monitoring and implementation SRE practices for stable work

June, 2021 - October, 2022

Tinkoff Bank - Russian bank in TOP-10

DevOps Engineer, SRE (Processing Systems Infrastructure team)

  • Supporting and improving Linux-based infrastructure (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)
  • Creating monitoring tools for custom cases using Go programming language
  • Creating IaC for monitoring solutions like Prometheus/ELK/Zabbix
  • Creating CI/CD pipelines in GitlabCI/Jenkins/docker-compose, manifests (Kustomize/Helm) for deploy Java/Rust/Go applications in on-premise and cloud Kubernetes/Docker Swarm clusters (bare-metal/VM/AWS)
  • Working on SRE position: reliability and 24/7 operation critical bank processing services (on-call shifts, SLA monitoring, postmortems)

Dec, 2018 - May, 2021

EXANTE - Investment company

Infrastructure Engineer (OPS team)

  • Created high availability solution for logs delivery from whole company’s services and servers: Elasticsearch + Graylog + Fluentd with HAProxy load balancing
  • Created on-premise Kubernetes cluster on bare-metal servers for part of company’s software
  • Transfered applications CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to Gitlab CI base
  • Supported Linux-based servers (Ubuntu/Debian) using IaC instruments (Chef)
  • Created custom solution for HR department: automated process for hiring/leaving, integrations with BambooHR and Google Workspaces
  • Installation and preparation Atlassian products (Jira/Confluence) and plugins for company’s development tasks and documentation articles
  • Worked with instruments for connection and trading (FIX protocol, trading terminals) on biggest world exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, etc.)
  • Temporary led OPS team

Sep, 2011 - Nov, 2018

Center of pedagogical skills

IT support, Network Engineer (IT team)

  • Managed Linux/Windows servers and all center’s workstation (Windows/Mac)
  • Managed the LAN of center (NOC): worked with Cisco/Mikrotik/ExtremeNetworks/HP network solutions, organized LAN and cross-network between three buildings in Moscow
  • Created and managed system for automizing process initially setup many laptops (OS, software, etc.) for some events (school olimpiads, training sessions, etc.) with custom requirmenets
  • Implemented monitoring of all infrastucture components based on Observium/InfluxDB/Telegraf/Grafana

Education

2007 - 2012

Moscow University for Industry and Finance

Master of Informatics for Economics (Faculty of Informational Technologies)