Ex Cloud Engineer

From Data Center engineer to Acting CTO

Manager Cloud Engineer

After 1 and a half years of working as Cloud Engineer and gradually taking more responsibilities, I was promoted to Manager Cloud Engineer of Virtalus LLC. Although I was Manager Cloud Engineer, but my learning curve and hands on experience had to stay since the company was still a startup with total employees less than 50. I started working on improving security of Hyperconverged products that I was most familiar with, this position also gave me the opportunity to improve and fine tune performance of production clusters and add more product lineups. I started working on delivering Software as a service models using available resources and this increased revenue stream of the company. I still voluntarily help the company in moving ahead and improving their services.
My brief contributions included;

  • Implemented and introduced numerous Data Analysis/Statistics methods, with Data streams to Data lakes then Data warehouses for dashboarding, Production Machine Learning models and analysis purposes.
  • Streamlining workflow and standards
  • Implementing and adding CI/CD structure
  • Leading timely patch upgrades and feature releases
  • Hiring new talent
  • Managing technical team and collaborating with management on new ventures

    • Cloud Engineer

    I got promoted to Cloud Support Engineer, my role was to implement Devops pipelines and also build using existing backups architecture. I had to rebuild backups solution from scratch using QEMU-API from Ruby following agile development lifecycle.
    I also started working on extending opensource cloud platform that was in use by the startup(Opennebula). I started extending it's frotnend(based on Sinatra) for clients to implement custom solutions that my company provided. This required extending React interface and Sinatra backend.
    I pitched the plan of Public Cloud solution and implemented it's backend. This required me to work on building a module for WHMCS, which was based on PHP. Virtalus decided to keep it open source.

    Data Center Engineer

    Initially I was hired to take care of on premises tasks as a data center engineer. My responsibilities included, setting up hardware for production servers and later add them up to clusters. I worked on tools like Ansible to automate deployment tasks and later contributed in adding more automation functionalities. Automations roles included;

  • OS setup and validation
  • Hyper Converged storage stack setup and validation
  • Cloud stack backend and frontend deployment

    • I also had to provide tier 1-3 technical support to local business clients, being the only available local support employee.