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Aleksander Grzybowski

DevOps Engineer & SRE

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About me

Welcome! My name is Aleksander and I am DevOps engineer. Building solutions that make everyday business better is my passion. I am always pragmatic about what I do.

My projects and live demos

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This Kubernetes cluster config

Single-node Kubernetes configuration for this server, where I host all my personal demos.

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This Kubernetes cluster monitoring (plus my laptop)

Prometheus monitoring setup for this cluster and my latop over OpenVPN connection.

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NoMachine + X2go remote private browser

Automated Terraform + Ansible setup for private web browsing in AWS. Fully functional, graphical remote desktop in minutes.

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AWS Lambda image converter

Simple Java function for converting images to grayscale, complete with Gradle setup + Terraform scripts.

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Kafka + Grafana demo

Example of monitoring Kafka workers, implemented in Ruby, using Prometheus + Grafana, all in Docker.

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AWS Lambda sound reverser

Simple Java function for reversing audio files, inspired by TENET. Uses ffmpeg under the hood.

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Kafka + Ruby video converter

Multi-service system for video file conversion, connecting Kafka, S3 and FFmpeg together.

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Vehicle history checker

Selenium script for automatic trial-and-error checking of car history. Use with caution!

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2048 in Linux console

Pure Groovy implementation of popular 2048 game puzzle, playable through Linux telnet.

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Work Experience

Lead Site Reliability Engineer - ICE Mortgage Technology (former Ellie Mae / Capsilon) (Mar. 2019 - present)

  • Building and supporting AWS infrastructure for running mortgage automation software, including configuration of cloud services and everyday maintenance.

  • Working with engineering and QA teams to create solutions that fit the current business context (comprehensive logging and metrics, finance-level security, performance).

  • Introducing and enforcing infrastructure-as-a-code (IaC) paradigms into everyday teamwork, using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins Configuration as Code and other tools.

  • Design and constant improvement of fully automated software release process, involving QA, versioning, deployment and monitoring.

Java Developer & DevOps Engineer - UWS Software Service (Jun. 2017 - Mar. 2019)

  • Planned and successfully performed application migration from on-premise ESXi infrastructure to cloud Kubernetes (OpenShift) managed service.

  • Introduced industry-standard DevOps practices, including full CI/CD, log aggregation, monitoring and metrics, using only Open Source solutions.

  • Developed backend of web application used to track employee work time. Single-handedly implemented integration with RFID attendance terminals located around the world.

Mid Software Developer & DevOps Engineer - itSilesia (Oct. 2015 - Mar. 2019)

  • Was responsible for provisioning, monitoring and everyday maintenance of production servers using Jenkins/Gitlab-CI, Icinga and standard Linux tools. Helped teams with CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments.

  • Implemented and took part in physical onsite realization of distributed field game system, using RabbitMQ and custom services running on Raspberry Pi and Windows PC fleet.

  • Took part in creating browser-based graphical editor to speed up and automate Android apps development, including integration with external media detection webservices.

  • Developed custom CMS solution providing centralized media datastore to a set of mobile 3D apps, implemented as proprietary WordPress plugin and backed by Grails webservice.