Senior (DevOps Engineer & System Administrator). For almost 2 decades I’ve been working in IT. Throughout this time I’ve integrated cross-functional teams of different sizes and expertise levels, working with a broad variety of technologies. I’m an eager and fast learner, with solid programming skills and a problem solving mind-set. Technology is one of my passions and I feel very comfortable dealing with new challenges. Given my solid background in Mathematics, I'm used to approach problems from an analytical and methodological point-of-view.
NTT DATA - a part of NTT Group - is a trusted global innovator of IT and business services headquartered in Tokyo. From the very beginning I have participated in interesting, challenging and intriguing projects. I have been able to consolidate technical and soft skills, and to acquire new knowledge competences. It's a honor be part of this amazing team.
I can proudly say that the fleet is thriving. Successful immersion into the DevOps World accomplished! It's amazing to help WolkAbout to deliver a robust and scalable IoT application built upon proven technology. Our clients need the application running 24/7/365, and capable of processing a high volume of incoming data. Such environment constantly brings me challenges and opportunities to experiment with new technologies for delivering streamlined IT process.
Throughout the course of time as team player at the IT staff, my career has improved and since 2015 I became a Senior SysAdmin. I have acquired a broad set of solid skills to tackle different sort of situations that might rise. To deliver a high-quality service to professors, employees and students, we ensured that the technology and tools used for their work were fully operational. It included 100+ Linux servers and 15+ Windows servers, almost 1500 workstations, 300+ network devices, 10000+ users and several software stacks. I periodicaly took part in 24/7 on-call rotations, and was in charge of maintaining the institutional CMSes, Application servers and custom Web applications deployed. It required working closely together with different functional teams. As DevOps practitioner, and member of a team applying many practices of the DevOps culture, I used to approach tasks from the DevOps perspective.
Since the early days as team player at the IT team, I took part in many different projects, first as Junior System Administrator and after a promotion as System Administrator. They included the installation, configuration and maintenance of several Linux, Solaris and Windows servers and workstations; specifically MTAs and file servers, DHCP, Web and Database servers, and Bash scripting and PHP programming. Throughout the execution of these projects, system administration best practices were followed and security concerns were taken into account, and a high-quality service was delivered to end-users.
This is when my System Administrator career began. It was a big challenge and I was a great fit for it. Since the beginning I dealt with complex problems and had to learn constantly to keep it up. The previous System Administrator quit unexpectedly and the IT infrastructure was left unattended for quite a long time. I re-organized, improved and maintained almost 10 Linux servers, and almost 50 Linux and Windows workstations. In some situations, I had to begin from scratch and reinstall a server no one had a clew about. These almost 3 years introduced me to System Administration and since then I couldn't leave it.
Physicists constitute a very demanding class of computer users. Most of the time they'll ask you to help them running Fortran code in a cluster or to check why a C++ library doesn't compile. In the Intituto de Física I could take my IT carrier one step further. This position gave me a chance to try myself as Network Administrator. The Institute runs a TCP/IP network made up of almost 80 devices, including a couple of Linux fileservers, one Windows Domain Server, one router, many switches and a several wireless access points and network printers.
For 2 years and a half I integrated the IT team and took this position as a great opportunity to deepen and solidify my expertise as an advanced Unix and Windows user. Given that Ciencias is a 16-floor building, I was indeed going up and down delivering a high-quality service, helping end-users to do their work and get the most of the organizational IT technology.
Apart from being a DevOps Engineer (and also a System Administrator), I enjoy most of my time sharing moments with my lovely wife and son. I'm an amateur vinyl collector and enjoy live music and theatre plays. In the winter, I am an avid reader. During the warmer months here in Serbia, I enjoy hiking, running, and being outside with family and friends.
When the weather forces me indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and cult genre movies, read some good literature and enjoy my Super Nintendo console.
I am an aspiring long-distance runner, mountain-biker and wanna-be coffee specialist. I spend some of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in Computer Science, System Administration and DevOps worlds (well, from time to time I enjoy checking what Mathematicians have been doing recently).