Andrew Ripa
DevOps Engineer, System Administrator, Streamer, Photographer

Good day to you, Stranger, and welcome to my simple CV web-page. It was born as a result of my experiments with AWS cloud services, Linux environments, Docker, Jenkins and GitHub webhooks. I'm not a Web Developer or even a Web Designer so do not expect to find Easter Eggs on it. This creative CV was designed for everyone who is interested in my tech skills, knowleges and hobbies.

I'm 28'th y.o. DevOps Engineer who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and live in Kirkland, WA, USA from 2020.

I'll call myself "Middle DevOps Engineer" but I'm constantly improve my knowledges with the help of Linux Academy, Coursera and my current job tasks.

Feel free to reuse this web-page sources from GitHub for your own purposes.

Education

Starting from University and so on

Coursera, GCP certification

2020

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Exam praparation cources.

Linux Academy

2017 - Present

A bunch of courses from the following topics: Linux Administration, DevOps Engineering, Cloud Computing.

EPAM, DevOps courses

2017

Few monthes lenght quick-start courses for DevOps Engineering. Basic Linux, bash, Python, etc.

Porta One, Linux and Networking

2015-2016

Basic Linux courses with a set of related themes like troubleshooting, networking, working with different kinds of databases, sip servers, etc.

NTUU "KPI", Master's Degree

2012 - 2014

Computerized systems and robotics

NTUU "KPI", Bachelor's Degree

2008-2012

System engineer

Work Experience

Actual work experience with technologies set

Jan'20
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Present

DevOps Engineer @Luxoft USA


  • Build processes automation
  • CI/CD processes development
  • vCloud, vSphere management
  • Kubernetes, Docker containerization
  • Python, Groovy, PowerShell, Shell scripting
  • Jenkins management
  • Nexus, Artifactory management
  • Elastic Stack management

May'18
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Jan'20

DevOps Engineer @Luxoft


  • Automation of building processes
  • CI/CD processes development
  • vCloud virtualization management
  • Kubernetes, Docker containerization
  • Python, Groovy, PowerShell scripting
  • Jenkins management

May'17
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May'18

Senior System Administrator @LabsTECH


  • IT infrastructure planning.
  • Office365 corporate account management.
  • GSuite corporate account management.
  • SharePoint Online management.
  • Corporate WebSite management.
  • U-Prox (Access Control System) configuration and support.
  • Atlassian Jira administration.
  • Corporate AWS account management (EC2, VPC).
  • VPN (OpenVPN) setup and maintenance.

Dec'16
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May'17

Head of IT infrastructure Support Unit @Datagroup


  • IT infrastructure planning.
  • Managing team of 3 administrators.
  • Windows Server 2008 R2/2016 setup and support.
  • SharePoint 2010/ 2013 Foundation setup and support.
  • VMWare vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) setup and support.
  • Domain infrastructure setup and support.
  • DNS, DHCP setup and customize.
  • U-Prox (Access Control System) server for local users configuration and support. Users office access controlling.
  • Redmine (ticketing system) and additional modules setup, configuration and administration.
  • Accounting software (1C, m.e.doc, Navision) partial administration.
  • CCTV server andinistration and troubleshooting. IP-cam setup.
  • Cisco network hardware configuration.

Apr'12
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Dec'16

Senior System Administrator @VostokFinance Group


  • Management of the IT department 5+ people.
  • Users supporting in 1st and 2nd line within 300+ workplaces.
  • Redmine (ticketing system) and additional modules configuration and administration. Mail notification and work-over-mail configuration.
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010/2013 corporate portal administration for internal/external needs. Access controlling via security groups.
  • Microsoft Exchange 2010 mail server administration and troubleshooting. Transport rools and address list creation with shell scripting.
  • Microsoft WDS server configuration and administration. Boot and install image, driver pack creation, deployment for large scope of PC's.
  • FOG (*nix based analogue of WDS) server configuratind and support.
  • Microsoft WSUS server partial support. Updates checking, client-side troubleshooting.
  • Windows File Server administration. Backuping and permissions controlling with security groups.
  • Client banks, CyptoPro, FilePro, etc. software administration for securily file and data exchange. Tokens and smart-cards and certificates troubleshooting experience.
  • Freeswitch, Elastix callcenter and corporate telephony servers administration and configuration. Dialplan, routes changing, extensions creating and modifying.
  • Cisco, Linksys, Grandstream, Polycom ip-phones configuratin via TFTP.
  • FortNet (Access Control System) server for local users configuration and support. Users office access controlling.
  • CCTV server andinistration and troubleshooting. IP-cam setup.
  • VMware Virtual machines administration.
  • Active Directory administration and configuring for local domain. PowerShell scripting for regular tasks.
  • Zabbix monitoring system partial support and configuration.

Skills

In general and detailed about skill sets

IT

Windows Administration

Linux Administration

DevOps

Git

AWS

GCP

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

vCloud

Ansible

Terraform

Chef

Puppet

Nexus

Artifactory

Bash

Python

Groovy

PowerShell

Vagrant

Packer

SQL

Monitoring

Languages

English

Ukrainian

Russian

Hobbies

Work is not the only place you can find me
Games
Gaming

I will not hide the fact that I play video games. Most of them were bought on sales, but they did not become less interesting because of that. I'm a big fan of VR gaming and even a proud owner of Oculus Quest and HTC Vive before. In my student years I could sit up to 10 hours playing without interruption. Years go by and now on my list there are only games that do not require more than 20 minutes of my attention at a time.

Feel free to join me on Steam or Battle.net by tag Drew#22319 .

Streaming
Streaming

Since 2018s summer time I've started streaming my gameplays. I'm trying to improve my English because that's the only language I'm using during streams. I like to communicate with that few peoples who watched them because it's funny.

Feel free to join my streams on Twitch or YouTube.

Traveling
Traveling

Life is too short to sit at home. I visited just 10 countries and I'm not going to stop there. I like to organize trips and routes by myself. If you want to read about my adventures then go to my blog.

Photography
Photography

From my Euro-trip I brought over 8k photos. My inner voise told me to bought camera. Now I'm the happy owner of Nikon D3100 and Nexus 3XL. I'm trying to shoot every interesting thing I see but mostly I shoot portrets and macro.

Feel free to subscribe me on Flickr or Instagram.

Reading
Reading

I read a lot. When I'm not driving during my trips I prever to red on my old Kindle 4. Mostly it's Terry Pratchett's books. By overall my reading list includes Harry Potter, Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Ready Player One, Sherlock Holmes collection, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, etc.