Martin Zhekov

Core Responsibilities (Across All Teams)

• Provide 24/7 L3 Developer-on-Duty support.
• Daily use of technologies and platforms such as: Python, GoLang, Helm, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, Loki, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub, AWS, Linux, Jira, Terraform, Gardener.
• Deliver educational presentations on topics like Docker and TCP Dumps.
• Onboard new colleagues and provide mentorship.

Security Team – Cloud Certificate Management (Current Role)

• Responsible for certificate management across the entire cloud infrastructure.
• Develop lifecycle logic for the certificates on the cloud
• Make architectural decisions for assigned tasks to ensure secure and scalable solutions.

Lifecycle Management Team – HANA Cloud

• Develop and maintain a lifecycle management tool for HANA Cloud instances.
• Maintain and support Kubernetes operators.
• Develop logic to clean orphaned IaaS resources (e.g., orphaned S3 buckets).
• Create component tests for this functionality, including simulating AWS clients like fake Boto3 clients.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Built APIs and data clients to consume APIs.

Networking Team – Hana Cloud

• Maintain and support internal HaProxy Load Balancer.
• Manage DNS and Route 53 configurations.
• Daily troubleshooting and monitoring of network services.

Additional Contributions & Skills

• Mentorship: Participate in SAP program mentoring 11th-grade students from Baba Tonka High School of Mathematics in Ruse.
• Architectural Reviews: Create and review Architectural Concept Documents (ACDs).
• Participate in internal lab hackathons

• Worked in an agile team to design, develop, and maintain software for a smart parking system, covering both front-end and back-end components.
• Collaborated on all stages of the systems development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production releases.
• Designed and implemented database schemas and managed database migrations.
• Daily use of technologies and platforms such as: Java, KnockoutJS, Spring Framework, Qt Framework, Vert.x, Flyway, HTML, CSS, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, Linux, MSSQL, and PostgreSQL.

• Worked in a waterfall team environment to deliver mobile application features.
• Developed mobile screens using an internal Java-based language (CLM).
• Wrote automation and support scripts in Groovy.
• Daily use of technologies and platforms such as: CLM (internal language), Java, and SVN.