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Boris Maryshev, DevOps Engineer and Developer in Tallinn, Estonia
Boris Maryshev

DevOps Engineer and Developer in Tallinn, Estonia

Member since October 20, 2019
Boris has worked as a DevOps, SRE, and back-end software development engineer. He has a scientific mindset and 15 years of experience working with global startups. At Skype, Boris supported explosive growth while serving multiple roles like site reliability engineer, DevOps, and DBA. At Naga Group AG, Boris delivered scalable and secure trading infrastructure able to support a successful IPO and ICO for this fledgling fintech startup.
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Portfolio

  • Multilogin
    Docker Swarm, Ansible, Elastic, Kibana, New Relic, Nexus, Terraform...
  • Napali
    Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Python...
  • Climate Engine
    Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Kubernetes, Google Cloud SQL...

Experience

Location

Tallinn, Estonia

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Linux, Ansible, Terraform, Cloud, Startups, Remote Work

The most amazing...

...startup I've worked with is Skype, supporting explosive growth while serving multiple roles.

Employment

  • Infrastructure Lead

    2019 - PRESENT
    Multilogin
    • Managed all aspects of the Multilogin infrastructure, including Bare-metal and cloud hosting providers, multiple production and development clusters, and user-facing as well as internal services.
    • Led a team of DevOps/SRE/DBA professionals in charge of maintaining Multilogin services' high availability and security.
    • Built logging and monitoring for Multilogin services using Elasticsearch, NewRelic, PagerDuty, and other tools.
    • Guided migration from Bare-metal to fully cloud-hosted VM clusters.
    • Led the migration of cloud storage from DigitalOcean Spaces to AWS S3.
    Technologies: Docker Swarm, Ansible, Elastic, Kibana, New Relic, Nexus, Terraform, PagerDuty, MySQL, Percona, Galera Cluster, Apache Cassandra, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Cloudflare, SecOps, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnets, Networking, VPN, Security, GitLab CI/CD, AWS DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Deployment, GitHub, Amazon EC2, Load Balancers, Grafana, System Administration, CentOS, SaaS, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS RDS, Monitoring, Startups, SSL, Amazon EKS

  • CEO | CTO

    2012 - PRESENT
    Napali
    • Started my DevOps consultancy to help clients worldwide with their Infrastructure solutions.
    • Helped clients with their DevOps, database scaling, and back-end software development.
    • Kept up-to-date with the latest DevOps trends and technologies through learning and self-development.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Python, Linux, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, AWS, Flask, Ubuntu, Bash, SQL, Ubuntu Server, Continuous Delivery (CD), APIs, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnets, Networking, VPN, Security, GitHub, Amazon EC2, System Administration, Monitoring, Startups

  • Senior DevOps Engineer (via Toptal)

    2022 - 2022
    Climate Engine
    • Built scalable Kubernetes cluster for Climate Engine's back-end service using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
    • Created Kubernetes cluster for Climate Engine's WordPress website using GKE Autopilot.
    • Made Cloud SQL databases for Climate Engine's backends.
    Technologies: Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Kubernetes, Google Cloud SQL, WordPress, Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines, APIs, Architecture, Subnets, Networking, API Testing, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitHub, Load Balancers, SaaS, Startups, SSL

  • Senior Site Reliability Engineer (via Toptal)

    2020 - 2022
    Openreel
    • Kept Openreel's old-generation remote video creation platform running smoothly for global Fortune 500 customers until its sunset.
    • Participated in maintaining a high level of security, availability, and business continuity that eventually led to Openreel's ISO 27001:2013 certification.
    • Helped Openreel's development team with launching its new-gen remote video creation platform on AWS using infrastructure-as-code best practices.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Security, Linux, Node.js, FFmpeg, GPU Computing, Elastic, ELK (Elastic Stack), Security Audits, MySQL, New Relic, Ubuntu, Bash, SQL, Ubuntu Server, Agile Software Development, Continuous Delivery (CD), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnets, Networking, Security, API Testing, AWS DevOps, AWS Secrets Manager, SecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Deployment, GitHub, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, System Administration, SaaS, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS RDS, Monitoring, Startups, SSL, Amazon CloudFront CDN

  • Senior DevOps Engineer

    2019 - 2020
    Mynd
    • Worked on improving all parts of Mynd's AWS Infrastructure-as-a-Code, utilizing GitOps best practices.
    • Built and maintained data pipelines used by BI/Data mining teams for providing fast and actionable business intelligence.
    • Participated in Scrum standups, plannings, backlog grooming, and planning poker estimation like rituals required in Agile team.
    • Helped onboard junior team members to the team in the quickest and most efficient way posible.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, AWS RDS, ELK (Elastic Stack), Amazon ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service), SaaS, Amazon Cognito, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Monitoring, Startups, SSL, Amazon CloudFront CDN

  • Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer

    2016 - 2019
    Naga Group AG
    • Built a highly scalable and secure back-end trading infrastructure.
    • Created auto-scaling, auditable, and well-monitored AWS clusters and supported a successful IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
    • Utilized best security practices and created a highly-available Blockchain infrastructure in support of a successful ICO.
    • Worked with senior management and technical teams to minimize infrastructure costs while maintaining high availability.
    • Built and integrated various monitoring tools to ensure high availability and integrity.
    • Resolved issues detected by monitoring systems on a 24-hour basis as the primary contact.
    Technologies: DevOps, Red Hat Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PagerDuty, New Relic, MetaTrader, PostgreSQL, Windows Server, Linux, Blockchain, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, MySQL, Trading Systems, Encryption, Systems Monitoring, Distributed Tracing, Ubuntu, Bash, SQL, Ubuntu Server, Continuous Delivery (CD), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnets, Networking, VPN, Security, API Testing, AWS DevOps, SecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Deployment, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, Grafana, System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), AWS RDS, Monitoring, Startups, SSL, Amazon CloudFront CDN

  • Back-end Developer and DevOps Engineer

    2014 - 2015
    Klio Health
    • Developed scalable microservices in Python for a HIPAA-compliant healthcare application.
    • Built and maintained development, staging, and production infrastructure on AWS.
    • Performed code reviews, merges, and deployments according to the Scrum methodology.
    • Constructed CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment into various environments.
    Technologies: DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, CouchDB, ELK (Elastic Stack), RabbitMQ, Celery, Python, Linux, Docker, AWS, Flask, Ubuntu, Bash, SQL, Ubuntu Server, Agile Software Development, Continuous Delivery (CD), APIs, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Architecture, Subnets, Networking, VPN, Security, API Testing, AWS DevOps, SecOps, Deployment, Amazon EC2, Load Balancers, System Administration, Kibana, SaaS, Startups, SSL

  • Site Reliability Engineer, DBA, and DevOps

    2005 - 2012
    Skype
    • Constructed the original distributed monitoring system which is used to this day.
    • Developed PostgreSQL clusters serving Skype users as well as internal business intelligence and fraud prevention needs.
    • Maintained testing and staging environments for Agile Skype development and testing.
    • Collected, analyzed, and visualized various Skype usage metrics.
    • Released and deployed database changes from across the organization.
    Technologies: DevOps, Redis, Cacti, Nagios, Bash, Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, Shell, Systems Monitoring, SQL, Agile Software Development, Continuous Delivery (CD), Splunk, Architecture, Subnets, Networking, Security, Deployment, Amazon EC2, Load Balancers, System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Monitoring, Startups

Experience

  • CI/CD pipeline for Python Flask web application.

    I built and demonstrated a scalable and secure CI/CD pipeline for deploying a Python-Flask web application on a Google Cloud Platform's Kubernetes engine cluster. The setup was continuously deployed in a staging environment, and we utilized Spinnaker to approve and manually deploy the app's production environment.

Skills

  • Languages

    Python, Bash, Python 3, SQL, JavaScript, PHP

  • Frameworks

    Flask, Django, Django REST Framework, Gearman

  • Tools

    Shell, Docker Swarm, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, GitHub, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, ELK (Elastic Stack), Celery, Nessus, NGINX, Apache, Kibana, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Vim Text Editor, Git, Nagios, Cacti, RabbitMQ, Elastic, Splunk, GitLab CI/CD, Grafana, Amazon ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service), Amazon Cognito, Amazon EKS

  • Paradigms

    DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Test Automation, Kanban, Test-driven Development (TDD)

  • Platforms

    Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ubuntu, Debian, New Relic, PagerDuty, Linux, Amazon EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, DigitalOcean, Blockchain, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Red Hat Linux, AWS Lambda, CentOS, Windows Server, MetaTrader, CKAN, WordPress, Nexus, Percona, Spinnaker

  • Storage

    PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, Redis, CouchDB, Google Cloud, Datadog, MongoDB, Google Cloud SQL

  • Other

    Cloud Security, Systems Monitoring, Ubuntu Server, AWS, Cloud, AWS DevOps, Load Balancers, System Administration, Monitoring, Distributed Tracing, Distributed Ledgers, Encryption, CI/CD Pipelines, Galera Cluster, Cloudflare, APIs, Architecture, Subnets, Networking, AWS Secrets Manager, Deployment, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SaaS, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), SSL, Security Audits, GPU Computing, Apache Cassandra, SecOps, API Testing, AWS RDS, Startups, Remote Work, Scraping

  • Libraries/APIs

    Django-allauth, Stripe API, SQLAlchemy, Jenkins Pipeline, Node.js, FFmpeg

  • Industry Expertise

    Security, Trading Systems

Education

  • Coursework in IT Systems Development and Administration
    2002 - 2005
    Estonian IT College - Tallinn, Estonia

Certifications

  • Financial Markets
    MARCH 2016 - PRESENT
    Yale University on Coursera

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