Michal Scasny
Development
Bratislava, Slovakia
Skills
DevOps
About
Michal Scasny's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Michal also has skills associated with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). Michal Scasny has 13 years of work experience.
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Work Experience
Global Blue GmbH
March 2016 - December 2022
- Remote Architected and maintained End2End test environments for various heterogenous applications. Maintained various PowerShell tools to help with daily operations and • maintainability of the environments. Wrote various tools in PowerShell, Go to assist with deployments of • new components (for example a GUI tool that installed all the prerequisites to use a desktop application, like certificates, created temporary users on ActiveDirectory, set proper permissions and served as a easy to use configuration interface to set appropriate values downstream in other components). Implemented custom monitoring solution based on Hashicorp Consul and • Go microservices. Participated in hiring and interview process of new engineers. • Helped to create evaluation baseline and criteria for new hires. • Introduced Terraform to quickly spin up the environment. • Implemented Graylog as a cost effective solution for logging. Later • on migrated to Splunk.
Helped CTO
Dodax GmbH
January 2016 - March 2016
- to build a small team of SRE/DevOps engineers to help scale up the e-commerce platform. Migrated Hetzner infrastructure to AWS. • Implemented Puppet for configuration management for our • infrastructure and dev local environments. Used Sensu as cost effective monitoring solution. • Co-authored various terraform modules to deliver IaC for our • environment.
Hutchison Drei GmbH
March 2015 - January 2016
- Remote Mostly helped deliver custom scripts as a cost effective observability solution. Development of various internal tools to help with observability. • Developed parser to increase observability of transactions going • • through Tibco to other downstream systems. Created custom scripts to shuffle data from Oracle to 3rd party APIs. •
Sr.DevOps - L4 Engineer
HP Enterprise Services s.r.o
October 2014 - March 2015
- Remote Helped build HP's virtual private cloud. Analyse competing offerings from AWS and Azure. • • Troubleshoot and debug issues related to provisioning and • deprovisioning of resources on the private cloud. For example analysing the whole process behind services (end2end) responsible for assigning storage to VMs. Implementing Puppet and Terraform modules. • • Created tools to help with analysis of problems happening during • provisioning and deprovisioning private cloud resources.
DevOps Engineer
AT&T s.r.o
September 2012 - October 2014
- Primarily acted as an SME for configuration management and outage lead. Subject matter expert on configuration management. We have utilized • • CFEngine to push changes across heterogenous environment (rom HP- UX, Solaris to AIX and Linux RHEL). Served as an incident manager handling incidents mainly affecting the • • Solaris environment.
SysOps Engineer
HP Enterprise Services s.r.o
January 2011 - August 2012
- 1st and 2nd level support for UNIX and VMWare environments. Handled tickets related to software and hardware issues on Linux, HP- • • UX, Aix, Solaris and VMWare platforms. Created scripts to assist with daily operations and repetitious • • tasks.
Lead SRE
SoSafe GmbH
January 2023 - Present
- Cologne - Remote One of Germany's most promising scale-up startups focused on Cybersecurity and Awareness. Helped build from scratch a new team of mature SRE engineers to help business with observability, reliability and incident management. Established process to respond to outages and streamline incident • management handling. Participated in outages as an incident commander ensuring an incident • gets resolved as soon as possible and affected stakeholders are informed accordingly about the impact. Participated in hiring and interview process. • Lead migration of Sumologic observability and monitoring solution to • Datadog. Helped evaluate competing solutions like Coralogix and negotiate • contract based on the current and future needs of the company. Participated in migration from Hetzner hosted environment to AWS. • Architected EKS solution from scratch delivering multiple production • ready clusters. Architected the GitOps solution based on ArgoCD. • Helped implement various CNCF projects like Karpenter and Keda to • increase scalability of our platform, introduced argocd rollouts with AWS LBC to deliver canary deployments. Kickstarted regular R&D focus groups to evaluate projects like • Crossplane and Cilium, Istio.
Freelance, Fractional DevOps
Packaly.com
May 2023 - Present
- Remote Helping various early stage startups to overcome challenges in the DevOps / SRE space. Packaly.com | Zero emission delivery network | Remote, Netherlands Tech: AWS, EC2, MongoDB, Atlas, Docker Helped Packaly to monitor and maintain their EC2 self-hosted MongoDB. • Assisted in migration of the DB cluster to Atlas. • Analysed the needs and impact on customers and provided a solution • for smooth and seamless migration.
