Iurii Glushko

Project: Building Company-wide Performance/Monitoring/Data Retention solutions

Roles: Technical Team Lead/Performance Engineer/DevOps

Achievements:

• Grew & Maintained Monitoring/Observability Platform (from hundred Mbs to couple Tb of data intake per day within just a year, maintaining %99.5 availability throughout the process)
• Implemented holistic Security Operations solution based on Monitoring Platform
• Created fleet of monitoring agents across company's infrastructure (around 10000 strong).
• Developed observability solutions & facilitated their adoption, including guidance for software teams to adopt OpenTelemetry.
• Grew the fleet of Machine Learning (ML) models/jobs to implement Predictive/Preventive measures for Security & Observability.
• Created Ci/CD solution to maintain & deploy various data intake/lifecycle policies, as well as monitoring agents, so the process get streamlined & versioned.
• Worked with Compliance team to match Security/Data Retention policy requirements of the Financial sector.
• Worked out data retention solution in accordance to regulations.
• Provided guidance, support & reference solutions for infrastructure/software teams adopting monitoring/performnance workflows.
• Led the team of 5

Tool Stack:

• ElasticSearch/Kibana, Elasrticsearch Fleet, Elasticsearch Observability, Elasticsearch Security, Elasticsearch Beats, Logstash
• Java, Groovy, Javascript, C#, PowerShell
• AWS: ECS/Fargate, SQS, CloudFormation, Lambda
• Azure DevOps CI/CD platform

Project: Org-wide Distributed Tracing Adoption

Roles: Technical Team Lead/Software Engineer/SRE

Achievements:

• Grew the Distributed Tracing (DT) solution from ground zero: plan & design, evaluation, prototyping & implementation.
• Worked with stakeholders & sponsors on validation & financial clearance for the DT solution
• Implemented support toolkit for DT solution, including CI/CD workflow/pipelines and utilities
• Guided & supported software development teams adopting the DT solution
• Maintained technical relations with backend vendor as the main company rep
• Led the team of 2

Tool Stack:

• OpenTelemetry, HoneyComb, Splunk, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana
• Java/Spring, Javascript/NodeJS, Python, Go
• AWS (including but not limited to): ECS, EKS, Lambda, CloudFormation

Customer: Vanguard (Financial Services - Asset Management)

Project: Investment Portfolio Management Solution

Roles: Performance Engineering Technical Team Lead

Achievements:

• Consulted the Customer upon effort to deal with performance issues
• Established Continuous Performance Testing process
• Developed & maintained Performance Test Automation suites
• Introduced Telemetry/Monitoring solution for Customer's apps & infrastructure
• Provided statistical analysis of the Applications Performance Data
• Created CI/CD solution supporting Performance Testing activities
• Led the team of 4 Performance Test Engineers
• On-call release & production support

Tool stack:

• JMeter, Splunk, AppDynamics, OpenTracing
• Bamboo/Bitbucket, Jenkins
• Ansible, Terraform
• Java/Spring, Go, Groovy/Grails, FIX,
• Oracle RDBMS, MS SQL, Apache Geode/Pivotal Gemfire
• IBM WebSphere MQ, SmartCO/Neoxam, CharlesRiver, FIX

Customer: Foundation Medicine (Life Sciences & Healthcare)

Project: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for a world-leading genomic profiling assays company

Roles: Lead Software Engineer in Test

Achievements:

• Developed UI & APIs automation test suites
• Established regular test process for company's CRM application
• Introduced performance/monitoring/telemetry testing practices for the the CRM app & integration APIs
• Developed CI/CD solution in support of test suites & processes
• Facilitated a major overhaul of QA processes & tools in the company
• Worked on on Regulatory compliance facilitation for software being developed
• On-call release & production support

Tool Stack:

• Selenium/WebDriver, Spock, JMeter, QTest, Appium
• Jenkins
• MS SQL, Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• .NET, Java, SQL
• InfluxData stack (InfluxDB/Telegraf/Kapacitor), Elastic Stack (ElasticSearch/Beats/Kibana),

Customer: Nordstrom (Retail - Luxury Department Stores)

Project: Product/Vendor/Org services - core to Customer's retail infrastructure, with functions to consolidate data from current inventory, vendors, and org structure of retail network.

Roles: Performance Engineer/Telemetry Engineer/DevOps/Solution Architect

Achievements:

• Created & maintained near-realtime monitoring/observability solution based on Influx & Elasticsearch stacks
• Performed continuous application & infrastructure performance profiling & testing
• Participated in solution architecture sessions as performance analyst
• Developed application modules with Go
• Created & maintained CI/CD infrastructure for Observability/Performance engineering solutions
• Performed DevOps consulting & operations

Tool stack:

• Elastic (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana), Influxdata (InfluxDB/Telegraf/Kapacitor), Grafana
• Go, Java, Groovy
• Cassandra, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
• Chef, Terraform, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitLab, GoCD
• AWS Stack, Docker, Kubernetes.

Customer: Sephora (Retail - Care & Beauty Stores)

Project: Warehouse Scanner App & Hardware

Roles: Senior QA/Automation engineer

Achievements:

• Completed a major milestone for the product with grand change to corporate workflows
• Taken part in system design decisions & requirements development
• Established full QA cycle
• Developed & maintained of the automated test frameworks (using JMeter, WebDriver + Junit, custom C# harness, EggPlant)
• Load & Performance testing for front- & backend components;
• Performed regular release cycle duties from test analysis through test plan, cases & tooling support to production sign off;

Tool Stack:

• Selenium/WebDriver with JUnit, JMeter, Cucumber, EggPlant, TestRail
• MySQL
• .NET app on Windows Embedded (WinCE), Ruby On Rails, Java, SQL/Procedural SQL
• AWS, Splunk

Customer: Google Inc.

Projects: Enterprise-grade E-Mail Service/Corporate ETL application

Roles: Software Engineer in Test

Achievements:

• Developed and maintained automated test frameworks & environments for both projects
• Established QA cycle & procedures in both projects
• Load & Performance testing
• Performed all regular release cycle duties from test analysis through test plan, cases & tooling support to production sign off
• Participated in regular code reviews for the team
• Taken part in system design decisions & requirements development

Tool stack:

• Google Spanner, Google BigQuery, Google BigTable, Oracle
• Jmeter, WebDriver, Maven
• Various Google internal tools for profiling & monitoring, cloud orchestration, CI, bugtracking, code reviews
• Java (Junit, Google stack, Spring), Python, Perl, Unix Shell

Project: Booking backend for commercial airlines from then-industry leader

Roles: QA Team Lead

Project: Media content distribution system for one of the leading world news agencies

Role: QA Team Lead

Projects:

• Map & logistics services for map/geodata services provider
• Audiology software (Windows interface to serve the custom hardware

Roles: QA engineer/developer