Alex Panchanka
Development
Illinois, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
ALEX PANCHANKA's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). ALEX also has skills associated with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). ALEX PANCHANKA appears to be a low-to-mid level candidate, with 5 years of experience.
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Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
Hyatt Hotels Corporation
June 2021 - Present
- Managed Kubernetes clusters in Development, Staging, and Production on AWS using Terraform and AWS EKS. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins on Kubernetes, resulting in a 30% reduction in software release cycles and a 15% increase in deployment frequency. Created and maintained infrastructure on AWS for various applications with different needs using services such as EC2, VPC, Auto Scaling Group (ASG), ELB, RDS, S3, EBS, CloudFront. Implemented and configured Cluster Autoscaler to automatically adjust the size of Kubernetes clusters based on resource utilization, ensuring optimal utilization of compute resources and cost efficiency Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Module Structure in Terraform, reducing manual effort by 25% and ensuring consistency across environments. Improved system uptime to 99.99% by implementing monitoring and logging solutions by using Prometheus and Grafana, ensuring real-time visibility into system performance. Implemented Ansible for automated configuration management, ensuring seamless and consistent deployments across various environments and optimizing operational efficiency. Orchestrated deployments with Helm charts, streamlining the management of Kubernetes applications and simplifying versioning. Dynamically scaled nodes with AWS infrastructure using scaling policies. Implemented a disaster recovery strategy with AWS Backup, enhancing system resilience by lowering recovery time (RTO) and recovery point (RPO) objectives, minimizing data loss and downtime during failures.
DevOps Engineer
Cox Automotive Inc
April 2019 - May 2021
- Designed and developed robust Jenkins build deployment pipelines, coordinating efficient and reliable software delivery, using Git, GitHub, Terraform and Kubernetes. Set up access security using AWS IAM roles and policies, minimizing unauthorized access risk and decreasing access violations. Automated deployment of applications in EC2 instances using Terraform, resulting in increased speed and reability of applications. Configured CloudWatch based monitoring and alerting system for RDS databases, and setup scaling policies for Servers to scale based on metrics. Implemented S3 buckets lifecycle policies to optimize and reduce annual storage costs. Documented project designs using READMEs, Atlassian Confluence, Google Docs, etc. Managed incident reports for prompt issue resolution and continuous improvement.
