Nikolay Kostov

• Working on development of projects under GCP, AWS and Azure.
• Using Terraform, Docker, BASH scripting, System Administration skills, Kubernetes and Ansible.
• Responsible for building and designing CI/CD using Circle CI, GitLab CI and Bitbucket CI.
• Currently working with enterprise level customers. (Toyota and Lineas)
• Technical Documentation.
• Projects are NodeJS and PHP based.
• Creation of working procedures for Technical teams and assisting Delivery Manager with shipping dates.
• Estimation of service requests and high level architectural research.
• Creating diagrams to simplify infrastructure architecture both local and in cloud.
• Coaching Junior DevOps engineers and creating tasks based on their skill level upon onboarding.
• Lift and shift Google Compute Instances to EC2.
• DataDog alerting in Terraform.
• DataDog Python API (First CLI tool)

• Coaching small groups of 5/6 people in Linux Administration and prepared them for LPIC-1 certificate.
• Educated 5 groups.
• Published knowledge articles using GitLab CI, docusaurus.io and GitLab Pages.

• Performed Linux System administration and office Network Administration: Set up router and switches and office server.
• Used BASH scripting for automating tasks that are repetitive.
• Implemented Workstation auto-install process. Used Ansible and GitLab CI utilizing local docker runner to automate tooling installation.
• Used netbootxyz as PXE service in order to install OS (Ubuntu) over corporate network.
• Assisted senior engineer into setting up Asterisk as VOIP platform.
• Explored world of streaming using OBS for company e-sports team.
• Was responsible for creating strict corporate rules for Workstation handouts and was point of contact in case of hardware emergency.
• Maintained availability during out of office hours in order to assist in case of any possible system failure.

• Customer's clients were mainly banks and assisted in making on-prem migrations.
• Worked on Google Cloud Project set up with Terraform.
• For testing purposes solution had canary branching strategy in place.
• Collaborated closely with DevOps Engineers for improving Privix, Jenkins, Packer and Ansible.
• Additional skills that I gained were in maintaining: Hadoop and Elasticsearch.
• Implemented DataDog as centralized monitoring tool for all environments including canary based.

Responsible for the assist, troubleshoot and advise on Microsoft Azure Cloud solution.
- Support depends on customer requirements -> phone / email.
- Understanding the variety of services / concepts that the Azure Cloud Platform provides and display perfect guidance using the official documentation that Microsoft provides both related to servers and the cloud platform.
- Troubleshooting error like BSOD, NIC/s issues ,non SSH/RDP scenarios on the operational systems that Azure provisions and performance troubles.
- I can read, understand and modify PowerShell Scripts and BASH scripts in personal favor or client idea dependent if possible.
- Excellent understanding of the concepts of Linux Web-Servers and their configuration.
- Firewall deployments and concepts.
- If I get stuck I understand the escalation procedures and provide excellent customer service = crit sit management and ability to de-escalate.
- Deep research and understanding.
- Deployment of IaaS and PaaS.

• Served as primary point of contact for support relating to owned solutions and products.
• Responded to support requests from end-users and patiently walked individuals through basic troubleshooting tasks.
• Assessed system hardware and software and suggested modifications to reduce lag time and improve overall speed.
• Explained technical information in clear terms to non-technical individuals to promote better understanding.
• Linux skills