Architect & DevOps Engineer

The candidate, a Slovak national born on 26th June 1973, holds a degree in Software Engineering. With extensive experience in DevOps and Cloud technologies, he has worked with companies. His expertise includes platforms like OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP, along with tools like Gitlab, Helm, and er. The candidate has also led teams, provided R&D, and made key architectural decisions in his roles as a DevOps leader and Infrastructure Architect.

04/2024 – Galeon As a DevOps Specialist, I was responsible for building and maintaining a private Cloud platform using OpenShift. I participated in platform design, configuration, and improvements, while also preparing documentation. Technologies used included OpenShift, Gitlab, Helm, er, CI/CD, ArgoCD, Hashicorp Vault, and External Secret Operator.

01/2023 – 03/2024 Orange Slovakia, Bratislava In this role as a Cloud Specialist, Product Owner, and Tech Lead, I led a technical team in PaaS (Platform as a Service) initiatives. I also served as the Product Owner in an Agile team and consulted on Cloud initiatives. Technologies utilized included OpenShift, Gitlab, and GCP.

4/2022 – 12/2022 Metiq, Bratislava As a Senior DevOps Engineer working on the BMW CodeCraft project, I implemented technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, ArgoCD, External Secrets, AWS, Secret Manager, Pulumi, Python, Github, and Bash.

9/2021 – 03/2022 Thermofisher, Bratislava In the role of DevSecOps Architect and SRE, I worked with technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, Helm, and Azure DevOps as a member of the DevSecOps SRE team.

9/2016 – 8/2021 Ferratum (Global IT Solutions), Fintech Company, Bratislava As a DevOps leader and Infrastructure Architect, I provided R&D and participated in key architectural decisions. I led a team in implementing technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, ArgoCD, Kafka, Tekton, Jenkins, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, Sonarqube, and Spring Cloud.

1/2014 – 8/2016 First Data Corporation, Fintech Company, Bratislava In this role as a Senior Analyst and Developer, I worked on technical design and software development projects for financial transactions processing in the banking sector using technologies like JBoss, Spring Integration, Jpos, Java core, Maven, JUnit, and more.

9/2013 – 11/2013 Interway, IT services provider, Bratislava As an Integration Specialist, I focused on architectural design using technologies such as WSO2, XML, Java, Spring DB, JPA, CXF, JUnit, SoapUI, JSON, and JSON Schema.

2/2007 – 08/2013 Logica, IT services provider, Bratislava In the role of Architect, Analyst, and System Designer, I worked on various projects for Telecommunication companies, utilizing technologies like BPEL, ESB, Siebel 7, PL/SQL, Java WS, and more.

3/2006 – 1/2007 TP Consulting / Factory4Solutions, IT services provider, Bratislava As a Build Administrator and Manager, I oversaw system builds and deployments, as well as managed application servers and applications for Slovenska Sporitelna using technologies like CruiseControl CI, Apache Ant, Debian, and more.

1/2005 – 2/2006 Nemetschek Slovensko s.r.o., Software vendor for architects, engineers and the construction, Bratislava In this role as an Engineer of Development, I focused on software development in .NET using technologies like C#, ADO.NET, XML, XSLT, Oracle, SQL, and more.