Kirill Nikitin

Designing and delivering advanced analytical platforms for hybrid and cloud environments. Core Responsibilities: Architecting big data analytics platforms using RedHat OpenShift in hybrid environments integrated with AWS and Azure. Implementing continuous delivery pipelines with Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps tools like ArgoCD. Key Projects: Vlaamse Overheid: Built a big data analytics platform on RedHat OpenShift in a hybrid setup with AWS and bare-metal integration. Automated infrastructure with Terraform and GitOps. Led OKD cluster deployment on AWS, onboarded core applications (MinIO, PostgreSQL, Keycloak), and managed connectivity to data sources. Served as the authentication liaison for government IDP integration. Audi: Developed an analytics platform on OpenShift and AWS EKS to process test reports. Delivered CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications, and onboarded legacy applications to the platform. Volkswagen Build an analytics platform on Azure AKS. Fully automated using ArgoCD GitOps, GitHub actions CI/CD with delivering to multiple platforms and environments. ST Engineering iDirect: Rebuilt Azure Cloud architecture and migrated between accounts. Enhanced Azure OpenShift (ARO) with Terraform and Terragrunt for scalability. Upgraded containers for security and performance using Jenkins pipelines. Deloitte: Oversaw network security and connectivity, including cloud-to-bare-metal tunneling. Played a key role in OpenShift cluster upgrades and third-line support for IBM Cloud Pak for Data applications. Facilitated onboarding of new clients to analytical platforms. Skilled in cloud-native architecture, hybrid environments, and DevOps practices, I deliver scalable solutions tailored to complex analytical challenges.

Freelance project, part-time. Company provide Call Center cloud platform for medical organizations. Platform includes several Linux-based servers for call distribution with Asterisk, several database servers with PostgreSQL and FreeBSD-based monitoring system. At present moment platform serves 20000 calls daily and about 10000 SMS messages monthly for about 60 active customers. Main responsibilities: Overall architectural system design. Continuous delivery for new features and services. Team Lead for software team with task management, code review and other common responsibilities. 2rd level support of the platform. Managing 1st level support team. Key achievements: Continuous real-time service delivery for high load platform within very limited hardware. Convergent platform for office telephony, call center with custom highly effective metrics and notification service (audio, text to speech and SMS notifications) for world-wide based customers

Customer support engineer for most of the Synamedia (former Cisco and NDS) Video technologies. Support customer for such technologies as Videoscape TV, Videoscape Session Resource Manager, Cisco’s Explorer Controller, all Cisco's ROSA products (VSM, NMS, and EM), all Cisco's IRDs, and Cisco’s Digital Content Manager. Support all Cloud DVR components with underlying virtualization and containerization infrastructure. Participating on Day 1 delivery project for one of the biggest telecom operator. Leading and responsible for local Lab environment. Managing local VMWare farm for internal usage. Supporting VMWare environment for our major customers. Participating in several engineering projects Key achievements: Design and create automation platform for support engineers for product logs analyzes based on SOLR search engine. Migrate knowledge database from Cisco to Synamedia platform. Design and deploy Technical Assistance Center Lab network and virtualization platform.

Customer support engineer for most of the Cisco Video technologies. Support customer for such technologies as Videoscape TV, Videoscape Session Resource Manager, Cisco’s Explorer Controller, all Cisco's ROSA products (VSM, NMS, and EM), all Cisco's IRDs, and Cisco’s Digital Content Manager. Support all Cloud DVR components with undelaying virtualization and containerization infrastructure. Participating on Day 1 delivery project for one of the biggest telecom operator. Leading and responsible for local Lab environment. Managing local VMWare farm for internal usage. Supporting VMWare environment for our major customers. Participating in several engineering projects Key achievements: Became the only one engineer in Cisco supporting whole video tech portfolio. Key stakeholder for several engineering projects related to manufacturing issues and proactive support for biggest customers. Leading internal documentation externalisation process.

Working with one of the key customer - Aeroflot Russian Airlines. 2nd level support for company network and customers. Audit of company network and network services. Making of network modernization project, including network redesign, equipment and technology selection. This project includes current network audit information, gathered from current infrastructure, description of all problems, new network design and technology description, equipment specification and pricing. In addition, I made few presentation materials for CEO and CTO. Key achievement: Project was accepted by Russian Airlines and implemented later

IT Consulting in different telecom spheres such as IP Telephony, IP networking, IP TV and Data Centers. Key projects: Data Center for Russian Railways Second stage of DC building for Russian Railways. Second stage includes 20 racks for 350KVa of power. PUE about 1.3. Gathering requirements from customer. Choosing vendors, equipment and contractors for different systems. In addition, this project includes many corrections of existing data center. Internet translation for "Rally Masters Show 2013" Gathering requirements from Customer. Solution design and choosing contractors for implementation. VoIP telephony for commercial bank Overall system design. Choosing and configuring all the equipment for all branches. VoIP system based on 3 Asterisk servers, about 700 customer phones (mainly AudioCodes and GrandStream), few VoIP gateways (GrandStream, AddPac, Mediant). In addition, head office was equipped with DECT phone system based on KIRK solution. Support for all system for more than a year including relationships with providers and customers. Call-center for commercial bank Overall system design, configuration and programming all interfaces. Design and implementation of report and statistical systems for call-center. Datacenter Design for Federal Freight company. Collect Customer's needs, overall datacenter design, contractor management.