CV | Resume: thapakazi

career | summary

• 7+yrs operation journey
  • shipping application runtimes over AWS, GCP, Linode with IAC Automation
  • services instrumentation (over prometheus-grafana, slack alerts)
  • site reliability; high availability{clustering,replica,scaling}
  • continuous delivery with build pipelines (github, jenkins, gitlab…)
  • security: patching vms, hardening os/services
  • debugging, recusing production, exec graceful service rollouts
  • capacity planning & infrastructure provisioning
• 2+yrs development journey
  • build service/apis (go,ruby), cli tools (bash/go) & web-ui (js)
  • build dapps(react-native) on ethereum blockchain with solidity/truffle
• misc
  • help companies simplify operational chores, mentor teams
  • help organize community meetups: DevOps-Kathmandu^
  • advocate 12factorapp^ development principle
  • collaborate with open-source folks, more info…^

involvements

• jobs:
  • [2019-2020] DevOps as Service contractor, toptal:profile^, upwork:profile^
  • [2018-2019] Developer-Manager, DevOps Engineer @WhiteHatEngineering^
  • [2013-2018] ~5 yrs of work experience as devops engineer @cloudfactory.com^
• academic: B.E. in Computer Engineering from Kathmandu University^

projects

• dibya.org: /in progress:/ software development mentorship platform
  • role: owner, fullstack (react-redux, rails-api, postgres)

• Others: involved community projects like faktory and more…

Companies(#yrs):

• Cloudfactory(4.8)- learned devOps culutre and simplified operational chores
• Whitehat Engineering (1)- golang developer, infra guy
• Enliv(2) - Mentor, Developer
• InnovaTech(1) - Site Reliability Engineering
• Misc: 5+ companies around world - with DevOps as Service offerings

in gist I love to

• automate all the things #lazyme and define everything as code/textfile.
• build simple, maintainable solutions to problem, and iteratively evolve.
• explore and learn dope internals of a language(golang), frameworks
• instrumentation services(business metrics/stats over graphs/charts); understand their behavior for continuous improvements.
• implementing best practices for operational & development excellence
• build / use / suggest awesome tools to others and enhance efforts on development-to-deployment workflow
• collaborate with community via open src projects^, report issues / PR :)
• share and learn (organise and participate on community events, publish: blogs/youtube)

skills

<16>	<20>	<25>
	proficiency	knows
containers	kubernetes <3 (CKA/CKAD)	docker-compose
iac	terraform,	packer, cloudFormation
automation	ansible, capistrano
lib/frameworks	react, rails, buffalo	sinatra
languages	golang <3, sh , ruby	c, js, python, c
aws	EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, RDS	DynamoDB, ElastiCache
gcp	k8s, codebuild,dbs,compute	Storage/Buckets
database	mongodb, postgresql (ops)	redis, mysql, percona tools
monitoring	prometheus, sensu	newrelic, nagios
ci/cd	github/gitlab, jenkins,	travis, circleci
blockchain	truffle	ethereum:SmartContracts
typeset	org-mode, md	latex
editor	emacs	vim, nano
system	archlinux	debains, windows/mac
speech	Nepali, English	Hindi

ops works | I enjoy doing

• Pack and ship apps inside containers and pet them as cattle
• AWS-EC2 autoscaling based business metrics
• Improve HA (replica/failover) for production services

• Loudmouth security as a F-word. First, Foremost, Fundamental & Forever requirement.
• Pull out hardcoded secrets/credentials in code into ENVIRONMENT variables :)

• Simplify application deployment pipelines, make it easy and continuous

good old memories/hobbies

• hackathon victories: Team Lipi^ , #osm2threejs^

• hobbies: playing with pi for fun; strumming guitar, futsal, kickboxing, marathon