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Containers & Docker

What I did with it

  • wrapped 300+ various projects
  • developed my own convention
  • recently started releasing a set of base images that I maintained privately for years

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Made pipelines and container images as CI/CD Lead at fintech company in Asiafor ~4 years in early 2020s

What I did

  • Developed and maintained Docker images for a huge fleet of microservices (more than 500)
  • Designed and implemented CI pipelines (Jenkins and Makefile)
  • Built a unified CI library that freed developers to focus on their code
  • Developed standards and automation workflows
  • Supported internal DevEx services

What I achieved

  • Worked long enough to see my optimized and polished images in production
  • Worked even longer to see people start doing the same work from scratch, because corporations
  • Got a serious skills upgrade

What I learned

  • Leveled up in containerization, pipelines, workflows, platform engineering
  • Learned the nuances of payment processing and fintech
Release Engineering

Fought ad blockers as Chief Technology Officer at stealth startupfor ~3 years in around 2016

What I did

  • Built a system that prevented adblockers from … blocking ads
  • Our product processed existing advertisement inventory in real-time, making it unblockable, without damage to RTB/VAST performance and loss of conversion
  • Designed the architecture, developed core code, managed developers, Ops, UX and QA specialists
  • Dealt with CI/CD, built pipelines, migrated from delivery via Debian packages to containers
  • Studied the life patterns of a local AdBlock list maintainer and timed our updates to the hours when he couldn’t react, which is a totally normal thing to do

What I achieved

  • A working product
  • A system that could process millions of users on the cheapest hardware
  • A place in hell, probably, for making the internet worse

What I learned

  • A lot about the intricacies of RTB, DMP and other evil technologies
  • How to build high-load things that must respond in under 25 ms
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