Andraž 'brodul' Brodnik

SUMMARY

Seasoned Senior Software Architect and Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of experience in Python, JavaScript, and Bash who also worked with Elm, Nix, Elixir with experience designing, implementing, and managing cutting-edge deployment automation of cloud resources.

SKILLS

• Python (Flask, Pyramid, Django), Elm, JavaScript (Node, Vue, React...), Nix, Bash, Elixir
• Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus/Grafana, CI/CD
• Redis, Apache Cassandra, Psql
• GCP (GKE, GCE, GCS, DataFlow, BQ, SQL ... ) and AWS (EC2, S3, Route53, SQS, SES, IAM RDS)

EXPERIENCE

• GLOBALWEBINDEX, Senior Software Engineer Feb 2019 -- May 2020 (contract)

  • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using CircleCI, Helm and Kubernetes
  • Solve architectural challenges and keep the platform stable and meet the SLOs
  • Build stress tests and design auto scaling to prepare the platform for global launch
  • Adapt monitoring to measure what is valuable for customers and the product team
  • Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on GCP, GCE, GKE, DataFlow, Cloud SQL, including backups, patches, and scaling
  • Maintain Apache Cassandra cluster and Redis HA to enable low latency big data business decisions
  • Transform tribal knowledge to infrastructure as a code with Terraform and reduce cost

• BRODUL S.P., Consultant Dec 2015 - Present

  • Manage/coach teams and team leads
  • Offer professional services and training on concepts/technologies like Cloud infrastructure, OKRs and planning, Disaster Recovery, security, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Python, Git
  • Build ETL systems, hardware testing framework, interconnection with robots (OPC-UA)

• RECIPROCITY INC. , Software engineer Dec 2015 -- Oct 2017 (contract)

  • Responsible for delivering features on time and fix bugs (Python/JS/Golang)
  • Maintain critical infrastructure and manage 20+ RDS and AWS EC2 instances. Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins
  • Working closely with the product team, writing technical/infrastructure documentation, implement the feature. cover with unit, integration and E2E tests
  • Responsible for SOC2 compliance process
  • Core security team member

• APPOTEKA, System Administration/Python Developer Oct 2013 -- Feb 2015

• Niteo d.o.o. , System Administration/Python Developer May 2011 -- Oct 2011
• Nil Ltd. , Embedded System Developer May 2011 -- Oct 2011
• Zemanta, System Administration Intern Jun 2010 -- Aug 2010

CERTIFICATES

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect (July 7, 2020 - July 7, 2022)

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

• Organizer -- Bsides Ljubljana (2016 - 2020)
• President -- Linux User Group Slovenia (2016 - 2020)
• Member -- Kiberpipa hackerspace (2008 -2014 )
• Mentor -- Django Girls Ljubljana
• Program Committee member -- PyConLT (2019)

PERSONAL PROJECTS

• Security and python talks (OSSEC, MITM proxy, idiomatic python ...)
• Blog brodul.org
• Code:
  • Personal infrastructure (HCL)
  • Password generator (Elm)
  • Configuration Object (Python)

EDUCATION

University of Ljubljana

Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical engineering, Telecommunications 2008 -- 2016