Aleksei Larkin
Chicago,IL
Summary
Experienced and highly skilled DevOps engineer with extensive years of hands-on experience in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as a code, and orchestrating containerized applications.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Site Reliability Engineer
Reveal-Brainspace
09.2022 - Current
- Designed and implemented Kubernetes resources such as Pods, Services, Deployments, Stateful Sets, Config Maps, and Secrets to maintain application scalability and availability;
- Developed custom Helm Charts for Kubernetes Deployments;
- Experienced in AWS: EC2, S3, IAM, AMI, VPC, auto-scaling policies/groups, security groups, Route53;
- Developed automation script using enterprise Terraform for deployment and platform operations and integrated with GitHub actions tool;
- Work effectively with support team and clients to escalate P1 alerts and troubleshoot their issues.
Cloud Engineer
Comcast
03.2021 - 09.2022
- Automated GCP infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using Terraform;
- Built multi-stage Docker images to improve build performance;
- Used Kubernetes to orchestrate deployment, scaling, and management of Docker containers;
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Docker, GitHub, and GCP.
DevOps Engineer
Northern Trust Corporation
06.2018 - 02.2021
- Experienced in Ansible automation including writing playbooks for development environments;
- Used Kubernetes to orchestrate deployment, scaling, and management of Docker containers;
- Created automation for deployment and configuration of Kubernetes (Infrastructure as Code),
- Proficient in designing highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant solutions using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, etc.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Moscow Technology Institute
Moscow2027
Associate of Science -
Transbaikal Transport College
Russia06.2015
Skills
- GCP, AWS, Azure
- Kubernetes
- Python, Bash
- Helm
- Docker
- Jenkins, GitHub actions, ArgoCD
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Git, GitHub
- Cloud Watch, Observe, Prometheus, Grafana
- Unix OS, Windows
Certification
- AWS Solution Architect
- EKS Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
Projects
- Building a new AWS and GCP environment includes network, compute, database etc;
- Create pipelines with Helm Charts that release repos to the public for the company’s clients;
- Set up Kubernetes cluster with Observe monitoring tool;
- Convert pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub actions and clouds.
Timeline
Site Reliability Engineer
Reveal-Brainspace
09.2022 - Current
Cloud Engineer
Comcast
03.2021 - 09.2022
DevOps Engineer
Northern Trust Corporation
06.2018 - 02.2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Moscow Technology Institute
Associate of Science -
Transbaikal Transport College