Nimrod Adar - נמרוד אדר - Resume (April 2021)

DevOps engineer and Python developer

Contact information

Tel

+972-52-871-3696

Mail

nimrod@shore.co.il

Matrix chat

@nimrod:shore.co.il

Blog

https://www.shore.co.il/blog/

Portfolio

https://git.shore.co.il/explore/

About me

Employment

2019-2021

Senior DevOps engineer at the Endless OS Foundation (previous Endless Mobile). Improved security practices and secret management, reduced infrastructure cost, built infrastructure for containerized services. Implemented logging and metric collection for visibility into our services. Took ownership of a metric collection service, collecting metrics from 10s of thousands of installations, reporting over a million metric points daily. Main tools: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Python, AWS, ECS, Jenkins, Postgres and Hashicorp Vault.

2017-2018

DevOps in Dojo labs. Reduced time to production with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing. Improved reliability by implementing log and metric collection. Established workflows for development, testing and releases. Created tooling for database migrations and established database migrations workflow. Broke a monolith application to containerized services. Led a PoC of Kubernetes deployment both in the cloud and on-premise. Main tools: Ansible, Docker, Python, RabbitMQ, ELK, AWS and Postgres.

2016-2017

DevOps in FDNA. Migrated production and dev environments to AWS. Inherited a big Ansible code-base, added testing and refactored. Instituted CI, CD (for some projects) and an artifact repository. Replaced unmaintained Nagios setup with a fully automated CloudWatch metrics and Lambda alerts setup. Main tools: Ansible, Python, AWS, MySQL, MongoDB, Bitbucket Pipelines.

2014-2015

DevOps in Wise ecommerce, in charge of reliability, automation, scaling. Helped transition the company from a single physical server to AWS. Proudest moment: scaling a single process to 10,000s of requests a minute running on 10s of nodes on AWS (using Ansible and LXC).

2013-2014

Sysadmin in Intel Haifa, managing a cluster of ~250 SuSE Linux servers and ~80 TB of EMC and NetApp NAS appliances in production and DR replicated environments, shell and Python scripting, automation, software deployment, monitoring and growth projection.

2008-2013

Technical director of Haifa's Cinematheque. Setup a windows based ticketing system with PowerShell automation, new LAMP based web site with online orders, new digital projection system with Linux-based players, networking projection rooms and self built 20TB NAS based on Debian.

2007-2009

Volunteered as a tutor at Hadar Haifa learning center, teaching math and English.

2007-2008

Jr. sysadmin and help-desk in Haifa University' library. Assisted in decommissioning a Novell directory and moving to Active Directory and supported Windows and RHEL servers, networking, VMware ESX, backup and Windows Terminal Services with thin-clients.

Education

2007-2010

Haifa University, majoring in CS.

2006

Technion, majoring in MIS

Military Service

2002-2005

L.T. Of the Israeli Navy Commanding School, exemplary service.

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