About me
My name is Alexander Kepman. I am a DevOps/SRE and DBA consultant with over 20 years in IT.
• Experience with SQL databases such as MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL storage such as Redis, ETSD.
• Experience in containerizing applications and deploying them to production (Docker Swarm, K8S).
• Experience with automated build pipelines, continuous integration, delivery, and GitLab deployment.
• Excellent knowledge of the PowerShell programming language, including task automation and systems management skills.
• Knowledge of the Ruby and PHP programming languages.
• Experience with SQL, building complex queries, and debugging query performance.
• Knowledge of web principles and HTTP basics.
• Knowledge of IP networks, DNS, load balancing, HAproxy, and firewalls.
• Knowledge of advanced security practices, including network security, system hardening, web protection against CSRF, XSS and clickjacking.
• Experience in building modern infrastructure in cloud environments (Yandex Cloud).
• Experience working with Microsoft. Windows Server Enterprise Administration
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory, ADFS, CA, Bitlocker
• Experience with Microsoft IIS, Farm IIS
• Experience with cryptography technologies (TLS, IPsec, TDE, SSH, SSO)
• Knowledge of the principles of setting up data infrastructure using IaC (Terraform)
• Knowledge of markup languages JSON, YAML, XML, HTML
• Processes: Jira, Confluence
• Infrastructure OS: Windows/Linux/Mac
• Experience with software for the RabbitMQ message broker
• Experience with monitoring software Zabbix, Grafana
Experience in implementing scalable systems
MS SQL Always On Availability Group, 3 nodes
MS SQL Replication
MS SQL Log Shipping
Redis Sentinel, 3 nodes
Redis Cluster, 6 nodes
HCP Vault, 3 nodes
RabbitMQ, 3 nodes
Vmware HA, 8 hosts
Hyper-V Cluster, 4 hosts
IIS Farm 6 nodes
MS CRM Dynamics 3 nodes
Terrasoft CRM Creatio; Web 6 nodes, SQL 4 nodes, Redis 3 nodes
Cisco ASA HA Failover
Technical stack
MS SQL AlwaysOn, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, Azure IaaS, VMware, Zabbix, Redis, RabbitMQ, Powershell, T‑SQL.
Certifications
MCSA: Windows Server
MCITP: Enterprise Admin (MCITP:EA)
CRM Creatio: Administration, Development
PostgreSQL DBA
DevOps practices