Niko Kurtti
What i'm rambling about
@laurimuranen Tiedan, mina itse. Muutin toiden perassa ensin ulkomaille, mutta kun tuli ajankohtaiseksi miettia uut… https://t.co/IRQmv34YLG
@eljojo Sooo remote means we get to go from microdosing to macrodosing? :)
@Jerub Very cool! I've been looking to upgrade C920 to a DSLR but worried about latency as I've seen streamers tuni… https://t.co/WqzzZDe7oW
@QuinnyPig @motherwell Do you feel this applies to companies too? Eg. having majority of employees being white males?
@lastgabs It will be fine @lastgabs , you got it! And even if all things fail theres always the safetynet of secondary.
Summary
- Tinkerer with keen interest in containers, performance and automation. Currently building infrastructure at Interdax
Education
- Master's degree, Software engineering, Information security, 2007-2013, TTY
- Thesis studied modern high availability architectures when implementing web applications
Technologies
| Programming | Proficient with Ruby and Golang, especially in the domain of infrastructure. Also done bit of Python, C++ etc. Background in Java EE development. |
|---|---|
| Containers | Expertise on containers and container ecosystem (Docker, Kubernetes etc). Worked with Docker since 2014, written tools like custom garbage collection in Golang in the past. Currently working on Kubernetes controllers |
| Configuration management tools | Legacy background in Chef, some work done with Ansible. Currently building on top of Terraform to automate provisioning of k8s clusters. |
| Performance tuning/testing | Used and built different benchmarking tools over the years from JMeter to wrk to Shopifys custom tool. Interested in tracing and debuggers, but trying to understand the full stack that goes in to eg. answering a HTTP request. |
| Operating systems | 15+ years of experience with Linux. Hands on experience with Solaris and FreeBSD. Familiar with the main distributions and package manager, GNU tools etc. |
| Miscellanous | Familiar with networking (routing, VPN, firewalls, IPv6 etc). Experience with planning out hardware builds for servers and developing bootstrapping automation for bare metal |
Non-technical skills
| Finnish | Native |
|---|---|
| English | Fluent |
| Fixing VW Beetles | Basics |
Interdax Remote
Site Reliability Engineer09/2018->- Building a next gen crypto derivatives exchange with modern tech stack
- Fintech, C++, Python, Golang, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Ambassador, Terraform
Shopify Canada
Operations Engineer07/2014->09/2018- Keeping sure that the Shopify platform serves it's customers 24/7. Mainly focusing on k8s based intenal PaaS
- Ruby, Golang, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, HA, SaaS, Virtualization, AWS, GCP, Nginx, MySQL, RoR
Solita Oy Tampere, Finland
DevOps Engineer05/2013-07/2014- Architecting scalable and automated service platforms for Web applications. Monitoring and coding everything and enjoying the new open source tools.
- Opscode Chef, Cloud, Ruby, Linux, HA, SaaS, Virtualization, Nginx
Solita Oy Tampere, Finland
Software Developer03/2010-05/2013- Daily work consists of drinking coffee and creating tailored services for demanding customers. Technologies include Java,Wicket and Javascript, but of course SQL is involved in the mix too.
- Java, Spring, Wicket, Tomcat, Glassfish, MySQL, Oracle SQL, Javascript, JMeter
Axu TM Tampere, Finland
Systems Management Consultant11/2009-01/2012- Consulting customers in *NIX system administration and how to improve their infrastructre.
- Linux, Apache, Postfix, Chroot, Virtualization