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Marcin

Marcin Jasion

Senior Platform Engineer

I am a passionate Platform Engineer with 10 years of experience. I am dedicated to delivering exceptional results. I started my carrier developing business applications

I have a deep understanding of application and infrastructure architecture, and the software development lifecycle. As a problem solver, I am always eager to find new and innovative solutions to complex challenges. Whether I am working on infrastructure automation, software design, or troubleshooting, I am committed to delivering high-quality results that exceed expectations.

Above all, I value collaboration and teamwork. I believe that knowledge sharing is essential to building successful projects and strong teams. I am always eager to learn from and collaborate with my colleagues, and I am committed to fostering a positive and proactive work environment.

Accountability
Team player
Communication
Hard Working
Problem Solving
Creativity

Skills

Kubernetes
Kubernetes

5 years extensive experience, I feel expertise to design, deploy, and manage containerized applications at scale. I have a deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, components, and best practices.

Istio
Istio

3 years of experience in deploying, configuring, securing, and managing service meshes to ensure seamless communication and traffic management across complex microservices environments.

Go Development
Go Development

6 years of experies. Good understanding of standard libraries and I know patterns write scalable, testable, and maintainable programs that meet the highest standards of efficiency and performance.

AWS
AWS

8 years of experience with AWS cloud computing. I am highly skilled in designing, deploying, and managing secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud-based solutions that meet the needs of businesses and organizations of all sizes.

GCP
GCP

2 years of experience. I am capable to design, deploy, and manage secure setup in GCP using range of resources. I designed a multi-cloud platform using GKE, where some workload were on AWS and GCP as well.

Docker
Docker

8+ years using this tool and could never go back. Docker integrates with my workflow seamlessly and solves many issues - bug replicability, code isolation, security vulnerabilities.

Linux
Linux

As a proficient Linux user, I have expertise in Linux administration, shell scripting, and automation, enabling me to design and implement robust and secure Linux-based systems for various applications and purposes.

GitHub
GitHub

8+ years of using GitHub enables me to collaborate effectively with teams and manage code repositories efficiently. I have experience in using GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines.

Experiences

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Datachain (former Iterative.ai)

Jul 2022 - Dec 2024

Global(Remote)

Datachain is a company that builds open-source tools for machine learning. The company also offers team collaboration products as a SaaS and self-hosted solution. I joined 2 people Platform team, to maintain and improve the infrastructure, developer’s tools, and processes.

Senior Platform Engineer

Jul 2022 - Dec 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Designed a multi-cloud platform for running distributed ML experiments with billions of objects(AWS and GCP),
  • Designed and implemented autoscaling of the Pods on Kubernetes based on the Celery queue,
  • Designed the on-premise, enterprise edition of DVC Studio, devising an innovative approach that allowed the software suite to run reliably in arbitrary customer environments (e.g. EXSi, Hyper-V, KVM, and many others). Also I was a member of Customer Success team to help customers with on-premise installations,
  • Implemented a new CI/CD pipeline for the DVC Studio, which reduced the time to deliver new features by 50%,
  • Coordinated large-scale engineering efforts pivotal to the successful attainment of SOC2 certification,
  • Extend SaaS infrastructure to GCP cloud(hybrid cloud),
  • Achieved a 40% reduction in cloud expenses by optimizing system designs,
  • Improved disaster recovery resilience by expanding the scope of services controlled via GitOps + Infrastructure-as-Code, ensuring minimal data loss,
Equinix

Jul 2022 - Apr 2024

Warsaw, Poland

Equinix is the leader in the colocation data center market. The company has 3 product development centers (Sunnyvale, Singapore, and Warsaw), which are building and maintain above 10 systems used by companies to manage the data center resources: manage resources in data centers, configure internet exchange points, configure network connectivity between different locations and much more. I joined the company to implement CloudNative practices on K8S clusters, and make products GDPR compliant by automating Istio Service Mesh infrastructure for connectivity.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Jul 2022 - Apr 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Led migrations of 3 systems with 40 microservices to make systems infrastructure GDPR compliant,
  • Designed architecture and migration process from on-premise to cloud environments,
  • Delivered automation of cloud infrastructure(K8s, Istio Service Mesh, Observability, CD Pipelines),
  • Support other teams in solving infrastructure issues(AWS, K8s, Networking),
  • Mentor younger teammates to develop and maintain high quality of infrastructure code and design
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Codility

Nov 2018 - Jun 2020

Warsaw, Poland

Codility is a technical interview platform to test the coding skills of developers and support hiring decisions. I joined company in front of migration from instance-based(EC2) infrastructure, to CloudNative using Kubernetes.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

Responsibilities:
  • Keeping online services and associated infrastructure running in good health,
  • Ensuring the security of the infrastructure for unauthorized access and interruptions
  • Mentoring - helping younger teammates develop and maintain high quality of infrastructure code and design
  • Setting up and maintaining infrastructure development tools and other automation tooling,
  • Educating engineers in the subjects of modern use of cloud computing, standards, and good industry practices.
DevOps Engineer

Nov 2018 - Dec 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Designing architecture for migration to Kubernetes,
  • Improving pipelines for CI/CD
TouK

Jan 2014 - Feb 2018

Warsaw, Poland

TouK is a software house company that makes solutions for external clients. It hires around 80 developers In 2015 I changed the team to DevOps where I was able to learn and get experience as an infrastructure administrator and cloud solutions architect to help Clients migrate their workloads to Cloud.

DevOps Engineer

Aug 2015 - Feb 2018

Responsibilities:
  • ELK Stack for aggregating 50 TB of data - for Play Mobile I designed and implemented a system for easily extending and managing ELK stack for gathering data from multiple internal services. The cluster was built by 16 nodes, in total 2TB of memory and 50 TB of disk storage.
  • Play Now - in 2017 Play operator decided to build its own mobile operator. The goal was to deliver easily scalable and extensible infrastructure, compiled with a Cloud Native approach. I was responsible for designing pipelines for application delivery, and integration to third-party services e.g billing systems, and call-centers
  • Virginmobile MVNO - for 2 years I was performing maintenance and infrastructure architecture improvements for a mobile operator.
Java Developer

Jan 2014 - Aug 2015

Responsibilities:
  • I was developing an application stack for a managing product catalog for Play Mobile operator, the Polish mobile operator.
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Accomplishments

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Linux Foundation May 2020 - May 2023

I have a thorough understanding of Kubernetes’ key concepts and the skills to design, deploy, and manage scalable and resilient applications, enabling me to contribute to complex Kubernetes-based projects.

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CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Linux Foundation Nov 2019 - Nov 2022

I possess the skills and knowledge necessary to design, build, and deploy cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, enhancing my marketability and equipping me to contribute to complex Kubernetes-based projects.

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Presentations

GitOps - Czyli konfigurowanie Kubernetesa Gitem
27.02.2020
SysOps/DevOps Warszawa MeetUp #48
Resources
GitOps - Czyli konfigurowanie Kubernetesa Gitem
29.06.2019
Confitura 2019
Resources
Autoscaling GitLab CI
27.06.2019
SysOps/DevOps Warszawa MeetUp #42
Resources