
Darin Dalgarski
Service Operations Team Lead | Incident Management
Salaire / Taux journalier
Plovdiv, Bulgarie
Freelance
Expertises
À propos
Introduction
Service Operations Team Lead with 7+ years specializing in incident/problem management and production reliability for high-stakes gaming platforms. Led end-to-end incident lifecycles at Aristocrat and DraftKings, orchestrating cross-functional teams to resolve critical P0/P1 incidents while maintaining service stability. Expert in Jira Service Management automation, post-mortem analysis, and building resilient SRE frameworks that drive operational excellence.
Expérience de travail
Service Operations Team Lead
Aristocrat Interactive
juin 2022 - déc. 2025
3 ans 7 mois
47521 Bulgaria, Forlì-Cesena, Italie
Owns the end-to-end incident lifecycle. Assesses and classifies production incidents based on impact and urgency. Leads and coordinates cross-functional technical teams to drive timely incident resolution. Manages customer-facing communication, ensuring transparency and professionalism. Conducts comprehensive post-mortem investigations to identify root causes and implement corrective actions. Provides operational support across business units to maintain service reliability. Actively contributes to new product releases, ensuring production readiness and resilience. Maintains and improves production environment availability and stability, driving continuous improvement initiatives. Produces detailed infrastructure capacity reports, identifying top resource consumers and process inefficiencies. Monitors team progress, proactively prioritizes and drives tickets to completion. Ensures adherence to best practices and standards, mentoring junior team members and defining Incident & Problem Management concepts. Proposes pragmatic solutions aligned with team capabilities and organizational scope. Designs and improves incident and problem management tools, processes, and frameworks. Confidently facilitates team meetings and operational discussions, fostering alignment and accountability. Provides training sessions on Incident & Problem Management processes to strengthen organizational capability. Expert in Jira Service Management: creating and managing projects, building automation workflows to optimize team efficiency, and developing custom dashboards and reports for management visibility.
DraftKings Inc.
janv. 2020 - juil. 2022
2 ans 7 mois
Plovdiv, Bulgarie
Lead Incident and Problem Management Engineer
janv. 2022 - juil. 2022
7 mois
Plovdiv, Bulgarie
End to End responsibility for the P0/1/2/3 incident lifecycle management Classifying production incident impact and urgency Orchestrate technical teams for incident resolution Manage customer facing communication Conduct full scale post-mortem investigation Providing operational support to the different company units Be involved in new product releases to ensure optimal production readiness Managing and improving production environment availability and stability Producing report analysis of the infrastructure capacity, top polluters, and process gaps. Aware of the team's progress and proactively prioritizes tickets in order to move tickets to completion. Ensures DK best practices and standards are met by junior team members, Helps define Incident & Problem Management concepts. Proposes solutions acceptable in scope for the situation and ability of the team. Helps create basic Incident & Problem management tools and processes. Comfortable guiding meetings and discussions related to team operations. Provide trainings on Incident & Problem Management processes
Senior Incident and Problem Management Engineer
janv. 2021 - janv. 2022
1 an 1 mois
Plovdiv, Bulgarie
End to End responsibility for the P0/1/2/3 incident lifecycle management Classifying production incident impact and urgency Orchestrate technical teams for incident resolution Manage customer facing communication Conduct full scale post-mortem investigation Providing operational support to the different company units Be involved in new product releases to ensure optimal production readiness Managing and improving production environment availability and stability Producing report analysis of the infrastructure capacity, top polluters and process gaps
Senior Monitoring Lead SRE Operations
janv. 2020 - janv. 2021
1 an 1 mois
Plovdiv, Bulgarie
Providing surveillance and alarm reporting. Monitoring server systems and networks. Troubleshooting, resolution and escalating incoming alerts. Incidents flow management. Managing the team on shift.
Network Operations Specialist
SBTech
janv. 2018 - janv. 2020
2 ans 1 mois
Plovdiv, Bulgarie
Monitoring of the entire company infrastructure, applications and services. Maintaining the production environment stable & healthy by troubleshooting, resolution and escalating incoming alerts, events and incidents.
Technical Support Agent
Sixty K Ltd (60K)
sept. 2015 - mai 2017
1 an 9 mois
Plovdiv, Bulgarie
Service calls for Technical support with English on ADSL 2+ users,Fibre Broadband (FTTC) In one of the biggest ISP in UK "Sky"
Formation
Coventry University
Bachelor's degree, Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security
2017 - 2018
2 ans
Software University
2014 - 2014
1 an
Professional High School of Home Appliances
2010 - 2014
5 ans
Licences et certifications
ITIL® Foundation
Délivré le : déc. 2025
Customer Service Foundations
Délivré le : avr. 2022