Nikolay Semenov

Building scalable infrastructure & platform for a real-time game - from the ground up

This was a contract job for an consulting company. My task was to implement the infrastructure for four projects and then hand it over to internal operations teams.

As a member of the platform engineering team, I focused on creating simple and efficient solutions for deploying infrastructure and applications. My work involved implementing DevOps practices across various projects, contributing to platform enhancements, and leading efforts to migrate services to Kubernetes.

The project remained the same. After successfully designing and operating the entire infrastructure as a solo DevOps Engineer, I was promoted to a Senior role. I continued to own and operate all platform components, and additionally contributed to team growth, participated in hiring, led technical planning, and coordinated work within the project.

I was responsible for the entire infrastructure layer - from cloud architecture and CI/CD to observability,
databases, reliability, performance, and cost optimization. It was a greenfield project from the DevOps perspective, and I designed, built, and operated the entire platform on my own.

Configured and managed server and network equipment: Dell, HP, Cisco. Administered Linux, Windows-based servers, internal services, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, PRTG, SolarWinds monitoring systems.

Configured and managed server and network equipment: Dell, HP, Cisco. Administered Linux, Windows-based servers, internal services, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, PRTG, SolarWinds monitoring systems.

Maintained data center hardware infrastructure, configured server and network equipment, troubleshoot technical problems.

Configured and maintained workstations, internal company services. Performed initial configuration of server and network equipment.