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Mikhail Savin

Mikhail Savin

TechLead SRE / CTO / Practicing teacher

Moscow, Moscow, RU
English, Russian

Background


About

About

I have quite rich and versatile experience in the role of Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, Head of IT Division and Operations, CTO. I am a member of DevOpsConf program committee and a practicing teacher of RTU MIREA.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • CTO

    Aug, 2024 - Present

    Building a better DevOps consulting and outsourcing organization.

    • Forming engineering teams in a variety of areas.

    • I build SDLC processes in different companies.

  • TechLead SRE

    Jan, 2023 - Present

    Launched the Web Application Firewall (WAF) in the cloud and assembled the SRE team that owns the AppSec cloud platform.

    • Improved cross-team communication processes, and built processes within the SRE team and infrastructure.

    • Implemented incident management and proactive monitoring practices.

  • DevOps Consultant

    Sep, 2023 - Jul, 202410 months

    Consulting on building development and operations processes.

  • DevOps Consultant

    Feb, 2022 - Oct, 20231 year 8 months

    Consulting on building development and operations processes.

  • SRE

    Mar, 2022 - Nov, 20229 months

    Infrastructure management for a new bank within the Yandex Cloud ecosystem.

  • SRE

    Mar, 2021 - Feb, 20221 year

    Working on a Search project to reduce errors with the SaltStack repository.

  • DevOps Consultant

    Jan, 2021 - Jul, 20216 months

    Consulting on building development and operations processes.

  • Head of Operations Department

    Oct, 2019 - Feb, 20211 year 5 months

    Implemented documentation and IaC practices, created template solutions on Ansible and Terraform, and automated infrastructure deployment via GitLab CI to successfully run high load projects (up to 75k users and 225rps).

  • Lead Linux Administrator

    Jun, 2018 - Sep, 20191 year 4 months

    I've maintained infrastructures with over 2000 servers for government and commercial companies, trabshooting CentOS, working with CheckPoint hardware balancers and firewalls, implemented MITM at the infrastructure level for a large project, and developed automation to integrate Zabbix with Jira, which is still in use today.

  • Lead Linux Administrator

    Jan, 2018 - May, 20184 months

    Keeping the company's infrastructure up and running. Direct interaction with the development team.

  • Lead Linux Administrator

    Aug, 2017 - Jan, 20185 months

    Maintenance of the company's infrastructure.

  • System Administrator

    Apr, 2017 - Jun, 20173 months

    Maintenance of the company's infrastructure.

  • CIO

    May, 2014 - Mar, 20172 years 10 months

    I have been working my way up from assistant system administrator, to IT manager.

Skills

Skills

  • IaC

    Ansible

    Terraform

  • Cloud Engineering

    Yandex Cloud

    HighLoad

  • Management

    Agile

    Scrum

    Secure SDLC

Education

Education

  • Software Engineer, College, College of Moscow Technological Institute

    Sep, 2022 - Jun, 2025

    Software Development

    Database Administration

    Project Management

Awards

Awards

  • Operation Systems , Stepik

    Awarded on: May 26, 2024

  • Python developer , Synergy

    Awarded on: May 22, 2024

Interests

Interests

  • Research and Development

    InnovationsExperimentation